THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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Vait for the Qeneral, J$oy,3
Earlier this week an Eisenhower-for-President club was
born on campus, following on the heels of the formation of
a state organization for the same purpose.
What about Ike, anyway?
We are reminded of two gentlemen of the horsey set who
were sitting one day in the grandstand at a horse show. They
were considering a sleek, handsome animal being led some
what against his will by the stands.
"That's a fine looking horse there," the first man pointed
out. "Looks like he "could do anything out there that has to
be done. I've never seen him in a show, though. Have you?"
"No," the second gentleman answered, "but he won the
Kentucky Derby last year."
"Check!" said the first man. "That's good enough for me.
He'll be a finevshow horse."
. That small incident is no more illogical than the current
Eisenhower-for-President boom. Certainly, the Derby win
ner might also be able to 'turn in some fancy work; the
Ceneral might become a great president. But we cannot
know until the horse shows what he's got; we cannot know
about Eisenhower until he states his position on domestic
and international affairs.
Is he a civil rights champion or a careful conservative?
Is he pro-labor or pro-Wall street? Does he believe that war
is imminent or that peace can be won?
At least four national groups don't seem to care. Sup
porting Ike before he opens his mouth are the Liberal party,
the ADA, the CIO and a large part of the Democratic party.
We Americans are practical people at least, we're sup
posed to be. And, if we may strain our animal metaphor a:
bit: we don't count our chickens before they're hatched; welnounce my candidacy for editor
rfnn't hnv a ni in a nokft. in the 1949 elections. . . ."Fel-
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Wait for the General, boys.
J4avc We
War talk is everywhere in Chapel Hill at academic teas,!
at Jeff's and at Harry's, at meetings of campus organizations, !
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in the dorms, in the frat houses.
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Everyone says war is imminent. Though some of us were
barely unswaddled in 1938,
the ominous events of that last pre-World War II year and
the one in which we now live.
Of course, we are not alone in our game of viewing with
alarm.
The daily papers have it that surplus war material
plants are being withdrawn from the market, that wartime
manufacturing lobbyists are arriving en masse on Capitol
Hill, that the Munitions board a procurement agency for
all services will quiz 11,000 factory owners about what
reconversion they can do.
There seems to be no sensible reason for doubting that
war is coming up within the year; the government is pre
paring and it is usually careful in matters of this nature.
' " We suppose that the Russians want a war; we don't know.
We have a hunch that a major part of this nation either wants
a war or believes that one is unavoidable.
Yet somehow another war is too big for our imagina
tion. We cannot feel, though we cannot help but believe,
that there will be war.
Can it be that we have all forgotten the destruction, the
misery of World War II? Can it be that we have forgotten
while the dead are still being buried?
We are afraid that it can be. B.S.
Winn and Committee Worked
Setting up an efficient machine-process for operating the
spring elections on this campus is no easy job. In addition
to dealing with some 300-odd candidates, their political par
ties, the Elections Board also must tend to the printing of
ballots, conducting various meetings, and operating the polls
on election day. " .
Al Winn and his committee have done a commendable
jcb. They as a group have worked tirelessly giving rtheir
free time for the benefit of the student body:' After the polti
closed Tuesday, the work had hardly begun, for- over,3,000
ballots had to be counted. Some complaints were hVaVct aooui
the disorganization of the counting, but as a whole,1 the entire
process went off according to schedule..
For their work, the student body owes a round of
applause to the Election Board. B.B. !
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The opinions expressed by the
Member of the Associated Collegiate
Press Association of the National
Collegiate Press Association.
BARRON MILLS
Editor
MANAGING EDITORS Ed Joyner, Jf.
SPORTS EDITORS? Bob Goldwaier, Bill Carmichael
NEWS EDITOR: Chuck Hauser ASST. BUS. MGRS. : Mary W. Sledge. SUBSCRIPTION MGR.: Charles
T. E. Holden Pattison
SOCIETY EDITOR: Jane Mears ASST. CIRC. MGRS.: Randall Hudson,
Don Snow V Buchan
NEWS STAFF: Raney Stanford, Donald MacDonald, Sally Woodhull, John Stump, Herb Nachman, Charlie Gibson,
Gordon Huffines. Margaret Gaston, Mark 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 Keilam, Larry Fox. Taylor Vaden, Kyle Cox, Bill Gallagher.
BUSINESS STAFF: James Crews. Jackie Rogers. Betty Huston. J. C. Brown. C. B. Mendenhall. Joe Williams. Randall
' Hudson, Gladys Cottrell, Al Petteway, Kathryn Colwell, W. S. Peebles, Grover Henson, Neal Howard, Jr.. Lena
Campbell, Ed Campbell, Al Carpenter..
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CIRCULATION MANAGER: Owen Lewia
EDITOR: Charlie Gibson
Carolina Carousel
This Boy Melton
Doesn't Give Up
By TL Too Giduz
So the Mallaman will have to
pack up his campaign guffaws
until the next elections, it seams.
. . . C.C. was much gratified with
the high vote the "burly photog''
pulled down, and nearly every
one was surprised. Except Mel
ton! . . . He's still trying to figure
out what hap
pened to those
lost 1200 votes
he , thought he
had in the poke.
. . . (After all,
he was counting
ballots!) . . . And
though "Artless
Art" announced
yesterday he
planned to pro
test the election on grounds of
illegal campaign practices on the
parts of his potential ex-staff
members, Bobby Goldwater and
Bill Carmichael, III, he offers, via
the Carousel, his sincere congrat
ulations to Joyner Triply, the
new editor. ... "It's the code of
the hills," quoth effusive Art.
.'Arid incidentally, I hereby an
, ,-..' U TVTllor.jV.
i ias, yjusi ccm k get me luciiaiiinii
Idown!
j And a few points of unsolici-
! ted and probably unnecessary
! advice on our own part to new
! Fditor Ed. an experienced
newshawk and a fine man to
lose out to, if we must: Eddie,
make the DTH a driving force
- . nt 3
on the campus, instead of a
student governmental whipping
boy . . . It's not hard lo do. . .
just keep up with the current
campus scene, - look at both
sides of all questions, then take
a positive stand and try to ac
complish something construc
tive. . .Don't try to please
everybody . . . But keep it live
. . . and finally you should par
don that we again quote form
the late Josephus Daniels, one
of the livest young octogenarians
ever to tackle type lice: "We
newspapermen must keep. . .
the elbow touch with the peo
ple. The greatest crime in this
game is lb be dull. . .and lo be
afraid to go against the grain
. . .' Might sound schmaltzy,
Eddie, but it's sincere. . .
A call to all y'all Tar Heels to
join in Monday afternoon in th
kickoff organizational meeting of
the campus Albright-for-Govern-or-
committee. ... No we're not
resigned machine politics, and be
lieve the Raleigh Challenger can
get into the second primary. . . .
And we can use your active help.
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. . . That's 5 o'clock, second floor I climaxed by 'the experiment
Graham Memorial, day after to- . al of experimental to end all ex
morrow. npn'mPTitak " tha PlavmoVorc'
Graham in Oak Ridge
Dr. Frank Graham is in Oak
Ridge, Tenn., today, where he
is scheduled to make a dinner
address before the American
Physical society. The Univer
sity, president is head of the In
stitute of Nuclear Physics, an
organization of 14 , colleges
which wprk,. with' the govern
ment atomic ; scientists on re
search projects at the Tennessee
center.
He will return to Chapel
Hill tonight, following the
meeting.
not necessarily those of the
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NIGHT SPORTS: Bill KeUam
'I shoulda knowed that a guy low
snowballs would put
This 'n That
On Departed Editor Mills
By Bill Buchan
In addition to the readjustment
(if such is necessary) of a new
boss, it is also slightly discon
certing to watch the old boss
pack up and head for new terri
tories. As editor of a school paper,
especially a daily publication,
life is not particularly enjoy
able at times.
Especially when
you never know
who is going lo
come in the
door next wilh
a complaint or
a 12 page mas
terpiece 1 h a 1
"has lo be prin
ted". It's not
much fun either, running inter
ference for an entire staff and
taking the blame for all lheir
mistakes.
Yet, the editor who has just
departed, and those before him,
will swear that the year as chief j
spokesman for his fellow students j
has been a fruitful year and that
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Plqymakers Experimentals
Timely 'Cantata' Tops Bill
By Roland Giduz
122nd bill of original student
written one-act plays, presented
last night and Thursday, proved
to be the most interesting trio
of dramatic endeavors in a long
time, if not the best all-around
set in many ways.
"The Atom Cantata," a 21st
century fantasy aptly tagged
"the experimental of experi
mental. . ." by its author Sam
Hirsch, defies adequate legiti
mate criticism by a 20th-century
layman. But a review of
its fascinating plot is much in
order. On an overall operatic
motif the "Cantata" is project
ed into the year 2048. Animals
have taken over the world.
subjugated man, and given the
atomic bomb a brain. With a
Eikini-like idea the animals
send the bomb lo destroy the
last remaining humans on
earth, but the bomb-wilh-a-brain
also has a conscience and
dramatically turns around and
destroys its creators.
Imagine that plot and its set
tings if you can. Big question
raised by everyone was 'What
was the author's intention.,"
which Hirsch left to the audi
ence to answer. The message
seemed to the reviewer simply
to point out the stupidity of man
in his use and misuse of atomic
energy and non-recognition of its
true effects. And a graphic and
timely topic it was, too.
Author Hirsch, with two hit
one-acters currently to his
credit, "Subway Rhapsody,"
and "The Shiksa." attained the
ultimate of somelhing-or-other
in "the Atom Cantata." Like
wise the good direction of
muscian Harold Schiffman can
not be overlooked. From the
cast of 20 actors top credits are
due Edgar Vom Lehn for su
perior and understandable
singing, and a mock animal
trio of Jack Clinard, Richard
Cox, and Milton Bliss, for their .J
- down enough to put rocks in his
Yocks in his pillow."
all-in-all, things have gone
pretty well. When you sit in the
editorial office day after day and
see the people who come in,
some of them only once, others
constantly, you sorta decide that
being editor of the Daily Tar Heel
isn't.much fun after all.
Barron Mills received a lot
of criticism (along with much
praise) for his work during the
last year. He adopted a policy
for operating the paper, especi
ally the edit page, and followed
through with that policy the
entire lime, despite approval
or disapproval. He'd be the last
lo admil it, but more often
than not, his day began in the
Daily Tar Heel offices soon af
ter eight in the morning and
didn't end until after midnight
that night seven nights a
week.
For reward, the editor receives J One last bitter note to the 800
a lot: $10 per week, much criti-lodd individuals who wasted their
cism. the loss of some so-called 1
friends, and a few words of
praise. Barron isn't the first edi
(tor to do the work he has done
clever rendition and routine
which was reminiscent of
Broadway musical styles.
Blessed with a top-flight cast
of veteran actors, Robert Rol
nik's "The Binkle Plan", brought
down rolls of laughter from the
rafters. The plot was a natural
for the opportunities it gave each
actor to outdo the others. Top
"outdoer" was easily David
Samples who played the part of
Albert Binkle, a temperamental
tax expert who was all too un
artistically un - temperamental
during his New England sea
coast vacation.
There was old Captain Jede
diah Suggs who rented lo Ihe
Binkles (Samples and his
"wife," Lib Savage) his fisher
man's cod-slorage cabin; Naomi
Sunshine, a slory-book Varga
vulgar artist's model, adequate
ly porlrayed by Rusly Kirsch;
Maxwell Miranda, oh-so-arly
artists' colony art teacher of
the lower Greenwich Village
type; and a slapstick but liltle-lo-long
and involved plot of
how an artist whe should have
stayed a fruslraled "milque
loaslish" lax expert, became a
completely fruslraled painter,
and fiscal genius.
Though the plot took in too
much, it was well carried through.
This was due in no small part
to the direction of Frederick
Johnson and some Revels-remi
niscent effective "ham-acting" on
the part of the entire cast.
Author Robert Barr look an
interesting theme in "Spanish
Moss" and spun a yarn around
il about how a disabled old
man vainly and somewhat
comically tried lo give himself
up as a guinea pig lo a useful
scientific project. The develop
ment of his happy-ending al
ternative rejuvenation was
quite unique. Though poorly
casl, "Spanish Moss" was gen
erally' skillfully written, with
the exception of inadequate
clarificalion of necessary back
ground facls for Ihe play. The
duet of old Professor Whittincr-
Write Away
Support
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Editor:
n.,Mirtin
Representing
(which, because it has been con-
stantly besieged by confusion-
inspiring enactments of publicity-
seeking campus politicians, has
never been able to develop into
the sort of humor mag the ma -
'jority of the campus voted for
and wants, I should very much
jlike to recommend to the student
body the candidacy of Jess Dcd -
mond for the presidency of the
student body.
In my opinion. Dedmond re
presents a new high in local
political sanity. He has, in all
matters, acted with dignity and
common-sense. He has never
participated in any of those
activities, which, through their
inherent sensationalism, have
brought discredit both to stu
dent government and to the
university.
If there is. any one quality
lacking in student government campaign piedfics, wime me oui
fand student activities for that!cr nas occupied himself with
matter) it is the quality of sta
bility. More than any one of his
in the past year. He won't be the
last. The point is and the best
time to make points is inbetween
1 regimes") that ' editors of the
DTH are hard-working, human
beings who have one of the most
j thankless jobs (along with vari-
(ous 'student government offices)
on the camnus. The Doint is. that,
the editors of your newspaper
sacrifice much of their personal
time and activity to devote it to
the DTH. The point is, when you
are inclined to criticise, go right
ahead, but remember also, that
it aint' much fun.
About Mr. Joyner , well,
the DTH staff and the three
political parties seem lo have
it when they all endorsed him
for the editorship. Poor guy, he
was a pretty regular fella when
he was sane.
votes in the editorship race you
really should have won. T'would !
have been an interesting news
paper to read
ton, played by Nathaniel White,
and his daughter Beatrice, act
ed by Eleanor Woodson, were
exceptions lo the generally
poor casting.
Regrettably there is not space
here' to properly review the
plays. The reviewer's purpose is
mainly to give credit where due
and stimulate interest in the. Ex
perimentals generally. They are
indeed a valuable part of Caro
lina life, and the best proof of
this will come when you see them
for yourself.
Ad
vice
Stop Sneezes
With Pollen
Dallas, Tex., (UP) A Vir
ginia allergist says pollen shots
properly administered bring re
lief to 80 per cent of the patients.
Dr. Oscar Swineford, Jr., of
Ihe University of Virginia, was
one of several speakers attend
ing Ihe Dallas Southern Clinical
Society's 171h annual confer
ence. A great deal of all hay fever,
Dr. Swinford said is caused by
sensitiveness to a specific pollen,
the invisible fertilizing dust
wnicn arms tnrougn tne air
while a plant is going to seed.
Patients are given shots of the
pollen or pollens to which they
are allergic by mixing the pollen
with a simple solution.
Dr. Swinford said, "we don't
just know why these shots re
leive people with hay fever.
We can't lell, except by trial
methods with each individual,
jusl how big a dose he should
gel, how often he should be
shot or how long Ihe treatment
should conlinue."
Pollen hay fever is seasonal
with individuals, the physician
added, but collectively a year-
round disease.
For Jess Dedmond
opponents, Dedmond has this
quality. He has consistently re-
fused to support measures de-
I signed to benefit any one group
orclass of students. He has
executed all student government
auues er-irU!ieQ lu
. paicn, -emciemy. ana . w...-
plete lack of self-adulation.
His critics they are few, but
I vociferous have carried on one
jof the most reprehensible cam-
paigns of distortion anl half
truths that have yet been witnes
sed on this campus. Their attacks
have been at all times destruc
tive, and they have never yet
been abie to balance their own
candidate's record with that of
Dedmond's. It is indicative of
the comparative quality of the
two presidential candidates, when
you recall that one of them has
devoted his time and efforts to
ward formulating a constructive,
sensible, and feasible platform of
the defamation of his opponents
character.
Getting b;uk to publications,
I should like to state the obvi
ous: Ail ol tnem are or inierior
quality, and none of them arc
even of partial satisfaction to the
student body (Tarnation includ
ed). We are all doing the best
we can, but we do need a lot of
leal aid and encouragement, and
I'm not speaking of referendums
either. It is for the reason that I
believe that Jess Dedmond, with
his common-sense, non-hysterical
policies, is the person who will
i do rnost aid to these publications.
that I earnestly urge all interest-
cd students to go to the polls
ncxt Tuesday and cast their votes
for him.
Tookie Hodgson
Lea's Plan
Editor:
I have a much better sugges
tion for preparing for national
emergencies than stirring up a
war scare to support UMT. Its
a plan figured out by Homer Lea
some years ago. Homer Lea, who
was probably the world's great
est military strategist, spent prac
tically all his days from child
hood on studying and practicing
military strategy. His having
lived in the earlier days might
bring the comment that his stra
tegy is obsolete now but I don't
think so. The Japanese didn't
think so when they followed his
plan for the conquest of the
Philippines almost to the letter.
His strategy didn't depend
upon the number of men and
the men he would have would
n't have lo be conscripted. He
proposed thai the Military con
sist of a proportional number of
the population and thai these
men be highly trained, discip
lined and highly paid. Why
highly paid? someone might
ask. For one thing it would at
tract belter men in large
enough numbers to fill tho
compliment of ihe armed forces.
Another reason for a more
highly paid and educated mili
tary today would dispense with
the so called necessity for uni
versal military training.
This would eliminate the
"green-horns" thai the Armed
Forces are compelled to take in
the draft. It would man the Mili
tary with professional soldiers. A
professional and experienced
soldier is far' superior to a green
horn. This was evidenced in the
late Pacific War. The U. S. Ma-
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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9 To hang down
12 City In Ita!
13 Church court
14 Beverage
15 Paradise
16 Hen retired In
baseball
17 Llmb
18 Place ot worship
20 Dessert
21 To yann
22 Snow vehicle
23 Desert beast
25 Exact
2S To venerate
29 Pert, to Druids
32 Bristle tcomb.
form I
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34 Negative
35 Cover for knee
37 Man' nicknam
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conscripted) army.
I say Why not have a rr.il.
lion SOLDIERS instead of
about three million draftees. Rf
doing this the one mi'li-jn
could be better equipped, be.
ter paid, and more capable n
utilizing the equipment lK-y
have. It would everythm-, ,
modern army should br ap-j
the program, even with hiqlicf
pay and more modern oq-.np.
men!, would be much ler.s co t
ly and much more satisfactory
than UMT. The figures here
were used for comparison.
Bill Z. Blackwosi
Loosc Practice
Editor:
Mr. Daymond Turner m W.
ncsday's TAR HEEL adopt.,!
rather loose practice of (
Washington, H mill n n.
Thomas Jefferson as .v I
of powerful U. S. atmic, m 1 r:
vies.
Let me emphasize Ih il I
believe what any of Hp .
thought about armament i
levant to an era of atomic Imn j
I would, nevertheless, lik.
protect the memory of TImi,
Jefferson from a bit of
thoughtful slander.
Quoting directly from TIum: ,
Jefferson, his Notes m I'm-; ... i.
Query xn:
"A land army would bo un
less for offense, and not Iho
best nor safest instrument of
defense. For either of jhr:,i
purposes, the sea is the firl.J on
which we should meet an Fu
ropcan enemy. On that clmml
it is necessary we should pov,.
ess some power. To aim at ;."'ti
a navy as the greater nations
of Europe possess, would h? f
foolish and wicked waste of tho
energies of our countrymen. II
would be lo pull on our own
heads Ihe load of military ex
pense which makes the Euro
pean laborer go supperless lo
bed, and moistens his bread
wilh the sweat of his brows. . .
They can attack us by detach
ment only, and it will suffice
to make ourselves equal to
what Ihey may detach." J
Chas. E. Johnson. Jr.
CP MEETING
The Campus party will meet
this afternoon at 2 o'rlork in
Roland Parker lounge 2 of Gra
ham Memorial, Party Chairnvm
Bob Ha ire announced yesterday
FIELD VISIT
Miss Ruth W. Hay, professor in
public health nursing, is making
a field visit to the Visiting Nun:
association, Louisville, Ky., un'l
Cuyahoga county Health dep.ut- '
ment, Cleveland, Ohio, on April
7-15. Public health nursing stu
dents are doing field work in
these two areas. In Ohio, she v.;l!
attend the field conference cull
ed by the Ohio state board of
Health. Representatives from uni
versities using Ohio Field Tun
ing centers, U. S. Public Iks'"!
service, and Kellogg founHat nn,
have been invited to attend this . v
conference.
Columnists
There will be a meeting "f
Daily Tar Heel editorial colum
nists at three o'clock on SurH.v:
afternoon. Columnists will ma
in the DTH editor's office
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