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PAGE Ty70 1 tee bail? Ait fet, i-AU"'? Project for Christmas Right now, after the undefeated football season just completed, the people of North Carolina would probably give the Tar Heel team just about anything it wanted, but the situation will be different when the University's budget comes up for consideration by the budget com mission of the state legislature. The thought of how much money it takes to operate an educational institution is not as pleasant to taxpayers as the thought of a winning football team. Athletic teams pay for themselves; students do not that is not immediately. Twenty years from now the suc cessful athletic teams of 1948 will not be paying off, but successful students of 1948 will have paid for their edu cation many times over in value to the state and the nation. When the state's legislators vote on the University's budget they sometimes forget this long range view. For this reason students here and at .Woman's College and at State have started a project to remind their legislators during the Christmas holidays. All students are asked to see their representatives personally and to inform them of the needs of the University. Each North Carolina student should do his share in this project. Unless a great deal of interest is shown in phases of the University other than athletics, the Uni versity, its students, and the state as a whole will suffer. Sugar Bowl Bound? One of the highspots of the football season this year has been the truly magnificent conduct of Carolina students in their display of sportsmanship. At every out-of-town game, although not lacking in good spirits, and well-mannered horse-play, the students have roused comments from the citizenry that "Carolina certainly has a fine bunch of ladies and gentlemen." In upholding mature and gentlemanly conduct, our student body has become one of the best emissaries of the University. Carolina has gained more than just na tional prominence by having a good football team, a fine faculty and high standards of study, but also by showing good manners and clean sportsmanship. This year we are again Sugar Bowl bound. The last time we were there, the people in New Orleans had a fine impression of our gang. Let's show them again of what stuff we are made. , L.K. & A Hppy Nu Yr. With WW's.clmn setting the precedent, the English language is becoming so abbreviated that in generations to come, students of history will undoubtedly have a dif ficult time deciphering the writings of our civilization. However, university students will continue to unsuspec tingly sign up for these courses as they are sure to be listed in the cat. as cryp. (for crytography) courses. (Students today make take crypt courses at any morticians school. Any body interested see the ghostwriter responsible for this deadline.) What with the YMCA, the UVA, the IFC, the VAC, the ICC's, CP, SP, and everything else from UP down, it looks like there's nothing left on campus that isn't abbreviated except coeds' skirts! , Any day now we may expect to see a copy of A.L.'sG.A. come out looking something like this: 4 score & 7 years, ago our 4 fats. brt. 4th on this cont. a new nat., conceived in Lib. and ded. to the prop, that all men r created equal. Seriously, though, we can take all abbreviations ex cept Xmas, but that is one word we would like to see x terminated. Without Christ, Christmas has no meaning, and none of us should be in such a big hurry that he must abbreviate the birthday of our Lord. Those who stand up for the abbreviation argue that X is the proper symbol for Christ, but the majority of those who use it never heard or thought of that reason for writing it that way. May . every student . ' have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR C.J. arfje Daily at Heel The official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it is issued daily during the regular sessions of the University by the Colonial Press, Inc.. except Mondays, examination and vacation periods, and during the official summer terms when published semi weekly. Entered as second-class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill. N. C, under the act of March 3. 1879. Subscription price: $8.00 per year. 3.00 per quarter. Editor Business Manager Managing Editor Sports Editor Campus Ed foton Ed Feature Ed Asst. Spt. Ed- Sally Woodhull Herb Nachman Jim Dickinson Dick Jenrette News Staff: Lincoln Kan. Margaret Gaston. Bill Buchan, Stewart McKeel. Gordon Hdfflnes. Leonard Dudley. Jerry Weiss, Jack Brown. Wink Lock lair. Roy Parker, Emily B.iker, Charles Pritchard, Emily SeweM, Mark Sumner. Charles Carter. Jimmy Leesen, Jimmie Foust. George Carter. Art Xanthos, Don Maynard. Sports Staff;; Frank Allston, Lew Chapman. Zane Robbins. Billy Burgess. Joe Cherry. Taylor Vaden. Larry Fox. Morton Glasses. Wuff . Newell. Carter Taylor. Society Editor Society Staff: Faith Adams. Helen Caroline Brunner, Ann Gamble, ...ED JOYNER. JR- T. E. HOLDEN , Chuck Hauser ..Billy Carmichael IU Adv. Mgr Circ. Mgr Subscrip. Mgr.. Asst. Pus. Mgr.. C. B. MendenhaU Owen Lewib Jim King Betty Huston ..Rita Adams Hord. Luclelle Conley. Harriet Sipple. Jane.Gower. Write Away Dean Gives Test Views Editor: Attention: Rameses Dr. W. D. Perry has kindly furnished me with a copy of his letter to you regarding your open letter of December. 1 . on compulsory sophomore tests. I am in agreement with Dr. Perry and yourself on the im portance of factual determina tion of interests and aptitudes of students. I agree further that the tests have been devel oped to the point of being ex tremely helpful when they are taken under favorable condi tions and when they are skill fully interpreted. It seems to me that we would be wise to limit any compulsory tests which we give to all students to a test of personal interests -as sug gested in Dr. Perry's letter. This might then be the basis of discussion which in turn would often lead to further tests and consideration of the results. To require' an elabo rate series of tests of all stu dents would involve two diffi culties which are very serious. First, there is the difficulty you mentioned, that it is very expensive and the University does not now have the money required. Second, even if we had the money I think the validity of elaborate compul sory tests would be seriously reduced in the case of those students who might not enter into the program willingly and therefore might not make the effort in the test which is nec essary to useful results. This is a very important question and I am glad to see that it is a source of concern to you. If you think that fur ther discussion might be help ful at this stage I shall be glad to join in a conference with Dr. Perry, interested students and any others whom you may wish to call. C. P. Spruill. Dean Let Robertson Remain In DTH Editor: I'd like to make an inquiry t about the requirements ne cessary for one to be a col umnist on the Daily Tar Heel. Are there a long list of writers waiting to be on the staff? My reasons for asking these questions are, if there are not a long line of people waiting to be columnists, or if there are no articles in the consti tution of the DTH (if the DTH has a constitution) stating that Communists cannot be staff members, then I say, let Bill Robertson remain as a col umnist. Is our system of government so weak that it cannot stand up after an opposing point of view has been presented? If we are afraid to let the Com munists have a voice in any of our newspapers because we are afraid more people will turn to Communism as the answer, our own democratic processes need looking into. If, on the other hand, the writings of the Communists are just "a pack of lies" (and we can't bear to see them in print) isn't it better that these lies be allowed to be printed so we can refute them publicly. It is my opinion that, rather than to adopt Communist tac tics of refusal of freedom of the press,, we should let the Communists speak their lies or truths. If they are lies, 'the truth will out'; if they are truths, we ought to hear about them. Too many editorial pages to day print only one side of a question. I had admired the Daily Tar Heel up to this time for presenting all sides of any question. Sally Lineweaver 407 N. Columbia Street More Write Away Loyalty Board Is Editor: In a recent editorial, you expressed confidence in the President's Loyalty board. Un der the rules of this board, the accused need not be told the exact nature of the charges against him; he need not be confronted with opposing wit nesses; in fact, most constitu tional guarantees are suspend ed; the matter rests in the dis cretion of the board, whose members have their own views as to what is legitimate. Em ployees have been discharged for union activity, favoring racial equality, discussing poli tics instead of going to a ball game, and seeing Russian movies. Under the rule of the -board, an atmosphere of fear has per If I Were The President Editor Now that the presidential campaign is over, many of us like to lean back and say "My job is over until 1952." But our task is not over! If our citizenship is going to mean anything to us or to the nation we must strive to keep abreast of world happen ings. No doubt you have heard the proverbial expression of the Army "A good soldier is a well-informed soldier." This applies no less to us, that a good citizen is a well-informed citizen. To help us face the issues more squarely and more inquiringly.'I think it would be well if we were to ask our Textile Editor: ' In demanding the removal of the King Features' cartoons in the interest of Labor, Mj., Shanker implies a pure in nocence of this group and a lack of responsibility for any part of today's high prices. To state that any criticism of the antics of Labor is a "smack below the belt" is a direct ad mission of guilt. As manage ment is guilty, so is Labor; and as controls have been imposed upon Management, so' should they be imposed upon Labor. I challenge the accuracy of Mr. Shanker's figure in re porting the .average yearly wage of the textile workers of the Carolinas as $1680.00. While working with the Vet erans Employment Service, I had the opportunity to assist in the compilation of several wage schedules in the cotton AVC Clarifies Red Stand Editor: The belated discovery in certain quarters of AVC's con sistent anti-Communist stand makes some clarification nec essary. That stand is not the result of a "recent victory" . (DTH, Dec. 5), for it is neither recent, nor is it in a sense a victory, but merely a reaffirma tion of the consistent policy followed by AVC since its in ception. A few brief quota tions from AVC policy state ments will make this clear. 1. Statement of AVC Nation al Planning Committee, Nov., 1946, supported by a majority of chapters in an opinion poll: "Those whom we ask to join AVC have a right to know the principles underlying this or Editor: I was sorry to read that the Daily Tar Heel plans to drop Bill Robertson's column. His i-t of view is one that is sha:-d bv hundreds of mil lions of people. About 12 col umns rppear in tin Daily Tar : I let. I esch week. If ens stu dent out of every 12 cares to read both sides in the world ideological struggle, then by democratic processes Bill Rob- , ertson's weekly column--or one like it is justified. If the meated government service. For their monthly check, civil servants are asked to surrender their right of speaking forth rightly lest their talk be deem ed unorthodox; of engaging in political activity, lest the Cen sors disapprove; of associating with life long friends who may be on the black list. Loyalty is' no longer a matter of well defined overt acts. Your means of lievlihood depend on what some (usually conservative) government officers think of your political and social views. Even this is but half the story. Let .us grant for a mo ment the fantastic hypothesis that a procedure could be set up under which only dues paying' Communists would be discharged. To the best of my knowledge, the Supreme Court selves the question, "What would I do if I were Presi dent?" . If I were President, I would ask myself what is the major issue facing my country and the world today. After I had made my decision, I would make the solution of this issue the goal of my adminis tration. What is this most im portant issue? Is it housing? Is it federal aid to education? Is it labor or management problems? Is it civil rights? Is it inflation? No!!! It is the issue of peace or war. With out peace, no other issue can be solved. The way to guarantee peace is through federal government, Data Challenged textile industry. In a sample -North Carolina plant, the be ginning wage for a trainee as ;. of December, 1947 was 87V2C per hourt the average wage .was $1.09 per hour, and many "of the higher skilled workers earned from $75.00 to $125.00 per week. The trainee rarely remains in such status more than three months, either mak ing the grade, or being dis charged by that time, and even during this training period he receives periodic wage in crease and receives, in addi tion, shift differentials for night work. Assuming that all workers in this particular plant were trainees, and that no overtime or extra shifts were needed, the average year ly wage would have been $1820.00. This example Is not too far above the average of all plants ganization and its leadership. We oppose the entrance into our organization of members of the Communist party. . . ." 2. Paragraph 153 of the Do mestic Affairs Platform adopt ed at the 1947 National Con vention: While opposing ac tion to outlaw the Communist Party, the platform stated, ". . . we unequivocally reject the torturous dogmas of the Communist Party as being in compatible with democratic processes and completely re pugnant to the spirit and let ter of the AVC constitution and objectives. . . ." 3. Resolution passed by the 1948 National Convention: "We, the elected delegates as- , sembled at the Third Annual Letters Not Significant Daily Tar Heel can print Hearst-owned King Syndicate material 6 times a week, why can it not print the opposite ex treme once a week? It seems to me that, in their recent explanation, the editors ducked the whole question in talking about style of writing and spelling. The question, as I see it, is Is the Daily Tar . Heel willing to run a radical column or not? Letters to the editor are no significant indi Tl cation of democracy in the impress. Big commercial papers Unfair has never found the Commu nist party guilty of subversi veness or disloyalty; on the contrary, in the Schneidermann case, it found the opposite to be true. Furthermore, the con stitution of the Communist party reads: "Any member shall be expelled from the Party who is found to be. . . engaged in espionage, or ad vocates force and violence or terrorism." The Loyalty board serves the convenient purpose of taking the question of disloyalty out of the courts, where the gov ernment has to prove its case (which Attorney General Clark admitted it cannot do) into the secret proceedings of ad ministrative tribunals. Hans Freisiadt 404 McCauley St on such a basis as that which Dr. Frank Graham suggested in his speech in Texas. We must strengthen the United Nations assembly to the point where it can make laws. The Security council must be al tered to act as an executive and enforce the laws. The World court must be changed from an advisory body to a real court that can try indivi duals or groups that perpetrate crimes against the peace of the world, and punish them. If I were President, I would strive for peace through a world federal government. Johnnie F. O'Neal 308 "B" Dorm in North and South Carolina to be . quoted. If Mr. Shanker obtained his figure from a reliable source, it obviously in cludes all short-time, tempor ary, and maintenance workers, and was taken from a not too recent base period. I suggest that he check the recent files of the North Carolina Em ployment Security commission for more accurace data. Just in the matter of relay ing to Mr. Shanker a little in formation on another subject, the veteran's subsistence allow ance is not designed to "make ends meet." It is only designed to assist the veteran. I think that we could be more appre ciative of something that few indeed, if any of us actually earned. After all, Mr. Shanker, you'll be repaying it when you begin to work for a living. Jack Tripp National Convention of the American Veterans Commit tee reaffirm our conviction that the totalitarian principles and destructive practices of the American Communist Par ty are inconsistent with the democratic principles and con structive program of AVC, in imical to its welfare, and that Communist Party members are ineligible for membership in AVC. "We instruct our incoming national leadership to continue using all means appropriate under our constitution to clean out and keep out members of the Communist Party from our ranks." George B. Tindall Box 711 all over the country have sec tions like "Write Away." I doubt that there is a single country where freedom of the press is so abridged that there are no letters to the editor printed. I hope the Daily Tar Heel will retain the one distinct ad vantage it has over the papers we buy in Lenoir. Its columns have not toed a monotonous editorial line, but rather have been a stimulating forum of student opinion. BUI Evans Written Away Decision Is Wrong Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to express my disap proval of your policy in regards to one Bill Robertson, the writer of 'This Changing World," a column which, unfortunately, you have threatened to abolish with the ending of this quarter. It seems to me that you are altogether wrong m this decision. Don't misunderstand me! I am not an ardent follower of the "Robertson School" now or have I ever been. In fact, he has never convinced me of anything except as to the possible correct ness of his name. Nevertheless, I feel that this seemingly frustrated individual should be allowed the privilege of airing his opinions, no matter how divergent these opinions may be, through our common medium of expression, "The Daily Tar Heel." This is the true spirit of our democracy and our liberal university. As expressive of democracy and liberal thinking, Mr. John Dewey, professor of philosophy, Columbia university (1905-1931; has the following to say:. "While what we call intelligence may be distributed in unequal amounts (no pun intended, Bill), it is the democratic faith that it is sufficiently general so that each indi vidual has something to contribute, and the value of each contri bution can be assessed only is it enters into the final pooled in telligence constituted by the contributions of all." Thusly, the logical decision would be to allow Mr. Robert son to continue with his writings (ravings would be a better word) so that the student body may have a wider source of opinions from which to base its final conclusions. Afterall, you may chase Mr. - Robertson ' underground, from which point he may advocate "A Bundles for Stalin" 'er something like;"that there." I Dwighl E. Bunn .- Hard to Speak Out Editor: It is with regret that I see you have decided to drop 'Mr. Robertson's column. Reading his always provocative column has been something to look forward to in every Tuesday's Tar Heel. You yourself complimented Mr. Robertson for his coopera tion in getting in his column regularly, even on big football week-ends, though you saw fit to insult him at the same time by calling such regularity "dirty work." His column speaks for a philosophy which, no matter how one may disagree with it, is furnishing the inspiration for tremendous mass movements in many oppressed areas which are changing the very nature of modern society. Americans should certainly feel some curiosity about the system of thought which is given as the reason for our peace-time draft, war economy, expenditure of billions in support of dictators, and for the outlawing of a political party. The editor has explained that many students have spoken out against the column. It is true that little or no support for the column has appeared. I suspect that more people would like to see this viewpoint expressed than this would indicate, for it is rather hard in this period of anti-Communist hysteria to speak out in favor of the presentation of the Marxist viewpoint. John V. Myers Editor Is Chicken Editor: ' I am greatly relieved that Robertson's column will np longer, appear. Firstly, its appearance in the DTH created the impression ' that the University was more liberal than it is; Secondly, it was widely read, (evidence the numerous replies in "Write-away"), in derogation of the sports page and the cross word puzzle; Thirdly, publication of Robertson and Hearst ' in such close proximity is confusing to the reader; Fourthly, it annoyed the powers that .be and created unrest among those of the property less that read it; and, Finally, vigorous support of Communism is propaganda, and, as you pointed out, not in good taste. Richard L. Koral Law School P.S. 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