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i B . FRIDAY; FEBRUARY PAGE TWO . THE DAILY TAR HEEL ! ill i S '! . i is f ! I ' ! I !. ?'. i ! 1 t i J i i ' I I f i I i i S I II f ; it t 1 u I ! Mb H pi ill i I; .: i 1:11! is! t : Mills Stones Gen. Holdridge: Chief Crackpot By Barron Miih A man who may very well, in my own estimation, wear the badge denoting him as the chief crackpot of all, the crackpots, is the General H. C. (no relation to Court House) Holdridge. The re tired general is a man who would have us believe that he endured the caste system of the army and the kicking around of the mui-tary-minded for 30 years (until Vvo roap)i1 iho crrarlp of Rri?a- dier General) suppressing the pressure insids of him which was not relieved by the normal safe- ty. valve of all army gripes bull sessions. I just can't tag along with the man who pats the crowd on the back which happens to be in his surroundings. The caste system in the army is not some thing which was built up over night. Even the General read ily admits that the caste5 sys tem is a hangover of the Prus sian militarism. It would seem " that as an officer in the army, who must follow, the command of the higher link, he himself would have had to practice the casta system. Now that the general is out of the army he is taking it upon himself to plug for "fhe vice-presidential nom inr.ion (we will not say demo crat) and sees that the army methods peeve ex-GI's and can . be shaped into "a "vote -getting device. Don't misunderstand us. We do not approve of the army's meth ods, but neither can we trust the general's sincerity. This one thing was hot enough to set us dead straight against Civilian Holdridge. His inconsis tencies in statements confused the issue and again tagged the speak er as a hypocrite. In answer to a statement con rning Wallace, 'he stated that he ' i not string along with Wal .ce because he is in no position x accomplish anything this year, iater he stated that his own "Peo ple's Party" was established, not is a hope of accomplishing any political victory, but solely lor educational purposes. Would someone kindly inform me what the general means. He says he did not go in with Wallace because he thought Wallace was not in a position to accomplish anything and yet the group he did go in with is only for educational pur poses??? "In 1952," continued the speaker, "Wallace may be in a position to accomplish some thing," Evidently the General had received the wrong pitch . frcm the tone of the question abui Wallace. Little did the -ieraI know that a high per-r-raie of the approximately irr resent were active Wal jsc? boosters. Still, in pushing the question farther, the Wallacites did not catch the dropped by the ex-general. ,o lives in the shad - - cm of the Pentagon building. He "a in effect, that after th H yoaf1"" Partv noinat'on h mr- b m a position to sav n'"" thr about Wallace. Th:s wtr-l ' indicate that if Holdridge does not get the Democratic Partv norr inatWf or vice-president (and there's no reason in his kidding irself; he wont) he would join un with the Wallace faction. WHAT'S UP in Graham Memorial Spring (if such be the case) ii g- --at stuff. . . Where the main lo'. rge and Rendezvous used t . draw fair sized crowds both aft ?rnoon and ever . . i onal - t' 1 in-.rcollcg'ate tourna-r.nt. . Should be a kibitzer's heaven, T y?" can stand to be indoors. . p-Bill Shuford journeys tD i th? Natural Bridge YM-YWCA j conference today to lead one of th? many forums. The final recorded dinner music concert this week will in clude the following selections this evening: Schubert, Fantasie; -Tschaikovsky, Swan Lake Ballet; Rimsky-Korsakov, Co D'Or Suite. Campus Forum Want a Literary Quarterly? Ey Pete Gems Ve bad originally intended to discuss the matter of reestablish ing dormitory stores in . today s column. This will-have to . wait until next Tuesday since some thing of greater importance has come up. Much has been said about the referendum on the magazines' since the results were first made , known. The student body voted in favor of a humor magazine The legislature must bow to the 0f the student body, j We are now presented with a prcbiem. Shall those students who have literary inclinations be denied a msdium of ex pression? Yes, if that shall be on a tax per capita basis. Let us therefore approach an alter native. This column proposes a contemporary quarterly asso ciated with both Journalism and English departments and published on a voluntary sub scription basis. Under this system an editor and board of review consisting of three facul ty and three student members could be chosen. The name "Carolina Magazine" could be used for this venture. The Forum contacted Dr. Cof fin and Mr. Russell of the Jour nalism department, Dr. Lyons of the English department and Dean Weaver of the administration be sides many students to question them on their opinion" as to the feasibility of such a project. Dr. Coffin and Dr. Lyons, heads of the respective departments, stated that in their opinion the matter was entirely up for the student body to decile. Dr. Lyons was very sympathetic toward the establishment of a quarterly. "The English department will gladly consider any measure and lend it its cooperation, if the stu dents should wish to consult with them." ' ' - deJolutlom3tJ Lynn Nisbet in his column of chatter around the State Capitol informs his readers that the Trustees of the Greater University of North Carolina narrowly averted a flare up in their meeting last Monday. Says Nis bet, who states that he got his information from those who are in the know, says "Copies of resolutions vigorously demanding contin ued race segregation and abolition of Com munists in the whole university set-up were discreetly shown around ahead ing, but at suggestion of some older members the "resolutions were not offered." The column continues with the statement that the older men on the Board said the executive members were already handling these matters in a manner that j tory. They persuaded the resolutionists that thev would accomplish nothing. . It is fortunate that we have Trustees men who are , -ugn xo reanze mat naugm gooa comes from resolutions such as the one mentioned ' jn the Trustees meeting, j The segregation portion of the resolution ; , . ' fnri-n,.e whito Rmm9f j . ,,. . . . . T1. . J of Mississippi and Georgia. It brings visions The official newt.iper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it is ovt'i'-hed daily, exept Mondays, examination and vacation periods by the Colonial Press, Inc. During the official sun . lerms. it is published semi-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Entered as second-class matter at the post office Ch:rjel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscription price: $5.t)0 per college year, $3.00 per quarter. The opinions expressed by the oci-re-1 Collegiate if' v,o 'Mitional ;3 A-rociation. 3ARRON MILLS HOWARD BAILEY Editor Bus. Mgr. :a EDIVOH: Ed Joyner, Jr. CIRCULATION MANAGER: Owen Lewis SPORTS EDITORS: Bob Goldwatsr, Bill Carmichael S EDITOR: Chuck Hauser EDITOR: Charlie Gibson --DiTOii: J.'.ne M?'5 Don Snow Buchan N2W3 STAFF: Ran.-;- Sa:ifovi. Donald MacDonald, Sally Woodhull. John Stump, Herb Nachman, Charlie Gibson. Gordon HuIkss, I.Iar.j Gaston, l.Iark Sumner, Paul Rothman. Elaine Patton. Jean Baskerville, Mary Ann Taber, Weddy Thorp. Emily Baker. Miriam Evans, Doris Weaver, Nancy Black, Helen Beam, Daniel Wallace, Sam Whitehall, Helen High water. SPORTS STAFF: Morty Schaap, Dick Jenrette, Bill Kellam; Larry Fox, Taylor Vaden. Kyle Cox, Bill Gallagher. BUSINESS STAFF: James Crews, Jackie Rogers, Betty Huston, J. C. Brown. C. B. Msndenhall, Joe Williams. Randall Hudson, Gladvs Cottreil, Al Petteway. Kathryn Colwell, W. S. Peebles, Grover Henson. Neal Howard, Jr., Lena Ca-inel!. Ed Camobell. Al Carpenter. FOR THIS ISSUE: Phillips Russell of the Jour nalism department, a man who has for long been actively in terested in Carolina publica tions, stated that "a contemporary- quarterly would be a welcome venture on this cam pus if students were in favor of it." He described a ""contempor ary quarterly" as a publication containing articles of ail fields of human endeavor, open to contributions from , all depari- ' ' rnenls, Dean Weaver felt that the stu dent body had indicated its will in the past referendum. -He. too, would like to see a quarterly established if the student, want ed it. This seems to have the ear marks of a worthwhile under taking. The major question which remains to' be settled is where funds for such a pub lication would be coming from. We had originally believed that the English and Journalism de partments could allocate such funds as necessary to this ven ture, but both department heads, when questioned on this delicate item offered no con sulation. Which leads us to this .com promise solution: Let us estab lish a quarterly 'magazine with an editor and advisory board as stated above. Let the legislature underwrite a maximum of $2,000 for coverage of all costs, which fund is to be replenished by col lection from subscriptions. This fund would amply cover all ex penditures. If 2000 copies per issue of this magazine should be sold an amount of $1,500 would be repaid to the underwriters. This would do for a start. If . the publication should prove to be worthwhile it can soon become independent and be a credit to the students and to this University. in Jaleiqlt of the meet was satisfac- on the Board broad-minded oiar columnists are their own and are Daily Tar Keel. Complete Leased Wire of United Press ASST. BUS. MGR3.: Mary W. Sledgs, T. E. Holden ASST. CTRC. MGRS.: Randall Hudson, NIGHT EDITOR: Herb Nachman Ml Political Spotlight Student By Charlie Long On Tuesday afternoon the special committee appointed to investigate and make recoramem dations to the legislature on the issue of removing the appelate power from the Student council met for what it thought was its last session. At the opening of the meeting a representative from the law school appeared ""I before the group ' ". 1 and asked that ,f they 'consider " re- commending that the law school " be given a sepa j rate judicial ' council to handle & 4Ss A 5 honor cases in the law school. During the dis cussion thai ioilowed it came out that for some time the medical school already had such a court for their operation. Strangely enough this fact seemed to strike none of that group as being anything import ant. Mr. Broughton, chairman of the Student council and a mem ber of the group seemed very disinterested. It could be ' that they have become accustomed to illegal courts sitting around the campus and no longer care who sets them up. In order to clarify this issue, let's see just what the constitution says about judicial power on the campus. Article II. Sec. 1: "The judi cial power shall be vested in a Student Council, a Men's Council, a Women's Council, the Men's Interdormilory Coun cil, and the V omen's House Councils. The Student Council shall have final jurisdiction in all cases involving offenses against the Student Body." At no place in the constitution does it give the medical school the right to set a private illegal court and for that matter neither does it give the Inter fraternity council the right to set up its private court. Yet in spite of that, the con- of red suspenders and chitt'lings. Is there need of coming out with such a statement? The part of the resolution dealing with the Communist is merely asking for the same trouble which Massachusetts has in its lap at the present time. There, a member of the state legislature, a Mx Barnes who is the attorney general of the state, submitted a very controversial piece of legislation seek ing to prevent any Communist from teaching in, public or private institutions in the -state of Massachusetts. According to past rumors, the Trustee resolution would go a step further and out law both students and employees who pro fessed to be Communists. . . The men who prevented the resolution from continuing further were wise in so doing. We believe that the immediate ad ministration of the 'educational-, institutions rp1:- that Communism is an ideology which carefully watched. The immediate . . . jtration knows the particulars of their institution r.nd are best qualified to curb Communism without such legal action as the Board of Trustees would instigate. eel not necessarily those of the Represented for national advertising by National Advertising Service, Inc., 4?9 Madison Ave., New. York. N. V. :::z::::::::::: SUBSCRIPTION MGR.: Charles Pattison EDITORIAL ASSTS.: Eob Sain. Bill NIGHT SPORTS: Dick Jenrette Government Investigation Asked stitution does say they exist. Pre- j ferred classes are being recog nized all over the campus. In order to get your own special brand of justice you get control of a vested interest and set a court to take care of you. Somewhere in this degenera tion of student government some one should stand up and cry halt, If someone doesn't then some bright morning the student body is going to wake up and find tmt that -it no longer has a student goTernment. That a council such as the med school's has should exist, without any constitutional basis, is an out rage against every student on the campus. The Spotlight how calls upon President Tcm Eller to appoint a special grand jury if necess ary and an Attorney General to find out just what is going on in our student government, and by a special investigatory jury it is not meant a group such as is silting on the appel late power issue which is al ready so prejudiced that its decision is known before it is ever made. The special group sitting on the appellate power of the Stu dent council is the biggest farce that has been perpetrated against the student body yet. Such people as Bob Broughton, Student coun cil chairman; Bill Tate, Men's council chairman; and Donleen McDonald, head of the Women's council and others had prior to their appointment already ad-! amantly stated that the appellate power must go. Who considered them competent to arrive at a just and fair decision? On Tuesday afternoon, at the meeting previously mentioned. Bill Crisp,- one of the writers of the constitution and former chairman of the Men's Coun cil, went before the group and explained just what was meant by the framers of the constitu tion when they gave the S. C. appellate power. For all practi cal purposes, his light shed up on the discussion was the first light in a very dark period. Crisp pointed out in his state ment that the Student Council This Changing World A Creeping Sort of Thing By Bill Robertson Our government has issued a Looklet entitled, "Fascism in Ac tion A Documented Study and Analysis of Fascism in Europe." This booklet, prepared by the Library of Congress, contains over 200 pages of factual information concerning the political, social, and economic conditions existing under fascism in Germany, Italy, and Spain. Naturally, only a' de tailed study of this document could give us a proper under standing of the real content of fascism and we highly recom mend this booklet. However, we should. like to quote from a para graph dealing with the political history of fascism in Germany because we feel that it may prove extremely valuable as a guide in the struggle to preserve political democracy in our own country. The quotation is as follows: "Described in 1919 in the 'most democratic democracy in the world the Weimar system succumbed 14 years later to a combination of circumstances. . The internal weakness of the Republic, its lack of inspiring leadership and popular support, bureaucratic sabotage. . . . eco nomic depression . . . anli semitism, the influence of the reactionary upper classes and the military clique, all con tributed to the overthrow of the republic ... in 1933. Does this sound familiar? You bet, it does! Fascist tendencies must be regarded not only as a symptom of the weakness of the ('progressive and liberal forces in la country; they 'must also b'a re garded as a symptom of the weak- mess of the shadow government . , t,1CT. of monopolies and trusts; as a ! symptom of the fact" that the monopolies and trusts are un able to rule by the old methods of "congressional democracy" (of which the busting of O.P.A. against the will of the majority of the American people is a good example) and, as a result, are compelled to resort to more un democratic methods of adminis tration (loyalty checks, etc.) to get their ideas and plans across. was not supposed to retry cases or reopen old cases. It was de signed to bring up appeal cases from a lower court, review the law as applied to the facts in the case, refer to their previous case file and upon the basis of procedure, decide if justice was done in the case. To date no such file on cases has been created. Cases have been ap pealed and iried in some strange and mysterious way un known to any but the Student Council. In simple language what it boils down to is this: the Stu dent Council was set up to hear appeals and decide constitution ality. They haven't made the first step toward a proper procedure This 'n That Do You Know the Words? By Bill Buchan On the Passing Parade song of the week (pick your choice), "You made me what I am today, I hope you're satisfied" or "It was sad when that great ship went down." Referring of course, to the Carolina Mag and Tarnation . . . the sudden interest of the Tarnation staff in promoting a lit- erary quarterly means but one thing to yours truly some body's conscience is b o t h e l them , . inci dentally, no date has ben given for funeral services of the Mag. There will be quite a few pres ent however. Many sincerely sor rowful mourners ... all this talk about the good looking babe at the Marathon. Maybe these guys looking for her never go in the place between one and five in the morning. Wonderful coffee at the hour. It Happened Here Political interests seems to be forming over the candidates for the Publications Board. .Everybody Further, fascism does not appear suddenly from nowhere. It's a creeping sort of thing. As the above quotation indicates, the danger of open terror dictator ship by the biggest businessmen the Krupps, I. G. Farben, etc. together with the militarists of Germany was already there while formal democracy still existed. The chicken develops in the egg and then it hatches! Ii is therefore the urgent duty of all liberals and pro gressives, while building up a democratic political movement such as the new Third Party movement, to fight at every stage to fight every curtail ment of civil liberties which prepares the way for fascism (the creation of difficulties for new parlies in their attempts to get on the ballot, for ex ample.) For if we do not fight fascism in these early stages (don't forget there is an eco nomic crisis coming) we shall be less able to prevent its vic tory. In the words of Henry Wallace, "we must organize now our resistance movement to preserve democracy or we shall have to organize under ground later to win it back." Democratic political struggles hoar n rprta;n similaritv to war?. I but, unlike the situation in a military struggle," the army must be built up while the fight is going on. And since the political war going on in our country is a deadly serious matter, involv ing the welfare snd happiness of the grat majority of the Amer ican people, it is necessary for ill of us to learn the lessons of previous defeats for democraey as soon as possible. If we do so, the untold suffer n.!?s of millions of human beings (as a result of the temporary victories of fascism in Germany, Italy, and Japan) will not have been in vain and we, by our own united efforts, will be able to defeat the enemies of prog ress. We shall thereby continue and develop further the great de mocratic traditions of our coun try into an era of 'world-wide peace and prosperity. , if ii in handling appeal cases, yet they are ready to scuttle the whole system because they don't know how or don't care to know how to work it. As to constitutionality cases, it is a serious question in many minds if they have the necessary knowledge to inter pret the constitution, especially when you review the manner in which the judiciary "board of the Interfraternity Council received its powers.' As matters stand now, it looks as though ve shall have to start considering the capabilities of the officers "we elect cr quietly admit that the students can't govern themselves and return the power we now hold to the administra tion and faculty. wants the job but nobody wants lo hurt their fellow writing mates. . .Speaking of songs (ten lines up) we're of fering a genuine 100.000 mark note for the words lo the third, fourth and fifth verses of "My Own Grampa." Swell song. . . almost rivals the unofficial song of DTH, "Four Leaf Clover." . . .the man to be envied is the graduating senior who has no reason lo be particularly wor ried over politics. Some people get all the good deals. . . Comments Here and There new rule. . .only couples allowed in the Rendezvous on Friday nights. What're they doing, get ting classy? .' . .This Y conference at Natural Bridge sounds good. Fine experience for those going. Such get-to-gethers should be held more often. . .this stuff about the meeting in Philadelphia to draft Dr. Frank as Democratic vice-presidential candidate doesn't sound good to us. 'Course we're prejudiced 'cause we'd rather think of the good man here in Chapel Hill. Watch where you jump children, you may be sorry. Names and Faces Speaking of faces, everyiime we see either Tom Kerr and " Charlie McRea, they're dressed to ki!!. Complete with tweed or plaid suits, double-breasted or single. Must be nice to have a suit for every day of the week. . .good friend Dick Bowen is one of the fighters against UMT. He and Martha Aiken among the dozen or so. Doesn't look like the bill is going to pass any way. . .Spring weather brought the usual crowds out on South Building's steps. Among those taking in the sun and gabbing away were - Bunny Davis, "Butch" Daniels and the Moore twins. . .those not taking in the sun were the usual after noon bridge players in CM's lounge. . .also the crowd fhat plays or kibitzes (mostly kibit zing) during the sessions every morning on the second floor of the Y. Especially between 10 and 11. Sudden Thoughts Wilbur Amberson has announced for the information of anyone inter ested that he is now on a strict milk diet. Reasons purely financial. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS ' 1 -God ol ar t I.ttprnrv colleri ion V- -Mf-iiMain iV -'1 o r in i nre J.- - Afrlnin ires li Insert M -Horn Nn rupe it - Havum lhrf lobe -Drug cuie fJ-brlet rjeriJ 1: Word Kppiipd Mmp backward aid torwiird SI- 'lo pui In ii 25-Onlty 29 -Jap coin 30 -Wage 31 -Prefix- new 32 -I.Ike a tile Si-KureM In An You Line II" ST. Start ling rtenU ' 39 -To llnclolha 42 -Equipment 43 -Deep (lisllka 45 Ailtorrat 48 -Sailor 49 -inner 60 Pert to aircraft 81 Some 62 Snare S3 Plant ourr i. i , 1 ( ::pT v- I fw 35flr zztiir -fv just Here Man Declines, Mag Abolished By Larry rWry Giving vent to an innate piebl.m intellect, we voted our 1 t ra y magazine off the rnmpu'; Tues day. Once nion w P,.Vt proof that when humans l.avr to In,. c between a poor serious woi k n.l a bit of smut masquerading un der the name of humor, th1 groundlings will prefer the lat ter. The use of groundlings" I.; rather bad, since in Elizabethan times a college student would probably have felt insulted to be thought of as the vulgar un learned 'man. I rpadily admit the Carolina Mag (R.I.P.) was far from what a literary magazine should be, but the Mag was in the peculiar position of having to please the groundlings in order to exist. 'We -may as well accept the fact that compromise in order to ex ist in a modern world just docs not promote progress. The Car olina Mag died as a frustrated recluse. Enough other people have spoken or written about the referendum and its results to make this superfluous to most of you, so lake it as you like. Man definitely seems lo have been on the decline since Adam, so this may be merely indica tive of our present vitiated stale. In passing I have lo ac knowledge that Adam must have been a very wonderful man. During the thawing period of the last snow Dr. Frank returned. He was well received by a num ber of students personally and the Student Body in general. Our only hope is that wo do not have to wait for another thaw to bring him back. For the last few weeks peo ple seem to have been throw ing the question of hot coffee in Lenoir Hall into the "Write Away" column very frequently. I am not a coffee drinker lo any extent, but I do like milk. Chapel Hill's usurper to the the throne of good milk has al ways been easier to stomach in the chocolate version. Lenoir seems to be about the only place in town not serving "ground roasted cacao beans" in solu tion with milk. I would like to know why they do net al low the students to avail Ihcm selt.J of the less obnoxious form of the lake from near-by bovines. The skeleton of our Planeta rium is rearing itself majestically from the ground, but our new dor mitories seem to remain in a sus pended state of animation. There were for you Quonr. t hut l ys last year! Chapel Hill Teachers Seek Approprrah'ons At a recent meeting the class room Teacher unit and the Nuith Carolina Euuiation association unit of the Chapel Hill si hools voted in favor of askin; Gover nor Cherry to call a .sp, rial ses sion of the legislature for the purpose of studying the possibili ties of increasing school appro priations.. . Because of the sharp rise in the cost of living, the lark of ne cessary equipment in many of the public schools, an I because of the .shortage of adequately prepared teacher personnel, th; teacher groups of Chapel Hill feel that an increase in veJiool appropriations is imperative. ANSWER TO PKCVIOIIS PI I.B N E CS; I :N O E LLKfcfcJ&l N (3E::R I iKtClTiAK E SE3AT F AT EQKA NP" vl A c euz ,o b. Al .aviath .eVejsij c AD )6 F or Fl K- a r DOWN l-Cn?Mon I -African Nepro 3 -Fhiertalnliig 4 Hnian ruler ft -'lonii pari In plaf 6 -Correlative of neither 7 - Divorcee n Ineoma 8 -ramed dancer 8- rtenrh priest 10- 1 hln 11 To Mioner 17 Sign IS MrM numeral 21 Clone fc 22 Awav from wind 23 Msken loud cry 28 One who geta pproval 27 Observed 28- Chlidren 30 Roofing tila 33 Employer 34 'lo diminish 35 Devoured 36 Larlat 38 dirt namt 39 - facia 40- 1 ar 41 - Absolute 44 Hone iromb. foiml 48 Part of "to be" 47 f lahllig gadjtt I t 'A ' Pi i. si b
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