WEDNESDAY, JANUARY. 26, 1949
?AGE TWO
THE DAILY TAR 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
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year, $3.00 per quarter.
Editor
Business Manager
..ED JOYNER. JR.
T. E. HOLD EN
Managing Editor
Sports Editor
Chuck Hauser
..Billy Carmichael III
Associate Ed.-
News Ed.
City Ed
Asst. Svt. Ed..
Al Lowenstein
Sally Woodhull
Herb Nachman
Dick Jenrette
Adv. Mgr C. B. Mendenhall
Circ. Mgr. Owen Lewis
Sitbscrip. Mgr. ...Jim King
Asst. Bus. Mar Betty Huston
Step Toward Destruction
Within the next few weeks a period in the history
of man may have its inception, a new age may come
into feeble birth that will make the Dark Ages seem
literate and cosmopolitan by comparison. The birth will
not take place in a laboratory, in the work of an author,
or in the boudoir of a king, but in a courtroom.
No mighty roar will usher in this era, if it comes, for
it will be announced in calm, considered, judicial tones,
which shall have effects that may even dwarf the un
leashed destruction of the Bomb. Today a political party
is on trial for its life, as its leaders are being tried for
conspiring to disseminate ideas that endorse the over
throw of the government. They have committed no overt
act of force, according to the indictment, but have en
dorsed forcible overthrow, which they deny.
It is a delicate question, but our democratic precedent
seems to point to toleration of anything short of incite
ment to revolt while the popular sentiment seems in favor
of abolition of the organized party. If these men are
found guilty and they have not cached their first rifle,
suggested civil disobedience, preached beliefs that have
resulted in anarchistic acts, then we are headed for the
pit of oblivion.
Not immediately, but gradually, step by step, always
downward. With a party outlawed, underground, unseen
but still dangerous, perhaps more vicious and undoubtedly
stronger, we would enact harsh laws in our attempt to
stamp out an idea, keep it from expression. Other organi
zations which might be fronts, which might have re
lated ideas, would find themselves abolished, prosecuted
and forced to retire underground. Bigotry would be legal.
The fact that Americans could be prosecuted for pos
sessing ideas would mean the end of liberty and democracy
as we know it, would make every one of our many mi
norities apprehensive, and could end with a strong group
holding the minorities under firm control. Germany was
a democracy, similiar to ours, before the advent of Hitler,
and there are those of his caliber ready to guide us down
the same channels he employed.
The result would be inevitable. Intolerant, power
lusting and strong, we would strike, or others would
strike, and the end of civilization could be accomplished
very easily. It requires little knowledge to realize that
a short period of modern warfare could reduce us to
a stage of barbarism that would make the Dark Ages
shine with the dignity of mankind.
It seems incredible that a court decision could reverse
the trend of history, but the incredible has affected man
during many a crisis; for the Red sea opened up, a young
Greek conquered the known world, the English often
staved off an enemy many times more powerful, and a
theory in a physicist's mind came alive to kill tens of
thousands.
Forbidding a man to teach and discuss an idea could
be the end of what historians would call the Period of
Liberalism in America. We damn the ideas of those who
are now standing trial, but we also must damn those
who would forbid the expression of those ideas.
What Is the Connection?
Do you want to go to hell?
Do you believe there actually is a hell? If so, what
sort of place do you think it is?
This is one of the debatable questions tied up with
religion, which itself is an interesting and debatable
subject. In one form or another religion has been discussed,
debated, denied, taught, preached, performed, suppressed,
outlawed, interpreted, fought over, and enforced by laws
since man first began to think. And it is still as live
a question as ever.
Just what do you think about religion? And what
connection is there between what you think and what
you do? Just where does theoretical religion tie in with
practical every day life? What does it have to do with
getting married, with labor problems, with science, with
picking a vocation? What are liberalism, fundamentalism,
and neo-orthodoxy or do words over three syllables
scare yout
These last questions are .some of those being discussed
in the seminars and addresses during religious emphasis
week. They sound interesting. They might even be im
portant, at least as important as a bridge game or the
current movie, possibly even as important as a basketball
game. Yet the first day of these discussions did not draw
as many students as any of the last mentioned attractions.
It is an interesting commentary on the modern mind
that the "thirst for knowledge" drives students to spend
four' years or longer in college, yet outside classes they
are content to slake that thirst merely with such infor
mation as how to make a little slam with two aces
missing, what Hollywood is putting into its latest third
rate film, and which of two groups of five men can
most often throw a ball through a hoop.
Not Some Faroff Plague to Read About
Tar Hfifils. Know Polio Hits Close to . Home-And Can Hit You
By Laura Hearne
Marjorie Nelson is the attractive wife of
Frank Nelson, a graduate student in physical
education at Carolina. She is 22, has an enviable
smile; a pleasing personality, and, to borrow
the psychologist's term, is well-adjusted. Other
than the fact that she has to sit in a rolling
chair, there is nothing to indicate that she had
Orange county's first case of polio.
This description is no exaggeration as any
witness would testify. I had a chance to meet
Marge, Frank, and Susie, their winsome two
year-old daughter, Saturday afternoon at their
Victory Village apartment.
They had just returned from the swimminj
.fleet and Frank was opening a box from home
There was a Schmoo ballon ior Susie, which
Marge blew up to proper size and Susie had
a wonderful time playing with until that in
evitable moment when it burst.
Marge was telling me about her experience
in the hospital last summer as a polio patient..
She was there twice, nine weeks the first
time and eight weeks the second.
She became ill on June . 20, she said. "My
niece was visiting us and we went shopping
in Durham on Thursday. When I got home I
was so tired, I went to bed early. I didn't feel
well the next day either, so Frank called the
doctor. He gave me some medicine and told
me to stay in bed a couple of days. But on
Monday I felt so good I got up, cleaned house,
did my laundry and we went to a softball
game in the afternoon. After supper I had a
splitting headache, so I took two aspirins and
went to bed Frank washed the dishes. I don't
know how I slept all night, but I did. My legs
ached terribly. Frank put hot towels on them
while we waited for the doctor to come the
next morning. It seemed forever before he came,
..but when he did he made a spinal test. The
results showed I had poliomyelitis.
"They thought Susie had it too, so they took
her to Duke and me to Rex since I couldn't
get into a Durham hospital. Susie was out of
the hospital in a week, completely recovered."
(The hospital bill for Susie was $100.00.) "My
mother and father had come down from Penn
sylvania by then. Susie spent three months
with them in the fall because we thought I
would have to go back to the hospital."
The treatments given her . in the hospital
consisted of a daily visit to the pool (her im
provised bathing garb the first day was " a
folded towel halter and a G-string"); a "modi
fied Sister Kenny treatment" leg exercise
given by the nurse to keep the back leg muscles
from becoming drawn; and moist hot packs
"which felt wonderful the first minute or two
but soon became so heavy I wanted them off."
As for the rest of the time, "I knitted a great
deal while I was there, but the first three weeks
I cried most of the time.
Although most of the patients were chil
dren, her two successive roommates were in
their teens. The first was 13 years old and she
said she was from the tobacco country, and
though the nurse scrubbed her feet every day
the tobacco stain was slow to come off the soles.
Helen was unused to hospitals and thought
nothing of throwing things on the floor for the
nurses to pick up. "She gave them a time at
first, but before she left, she was much easier
to get along with.
"Betsy was my next roommate. She was 17,
and was very nice. We got along fine.
"I never did have much appetite while
I was there, but Betsy always ate everything
on her tray."
Nor could she sleep very well; in fact, she
never did have a full night's sleep. "The doc
tor told me I' couldn't take anything to make
me sleep, and I think that knowing I couldn't
have anything made me even more restless.
I sleep four or five hours a night now. I think
if I had a pair of splints to keep my feet straight
then I could sleep on my back and rest better.
"I have a pair of parallel bars in the bed
room to help me learn to walk. They have been
helpful because ,1 can take a few steps now."
She was fitted with the braces and got her
crutches during her second stay in the hospi
tal. "When we wanted to practice walking
at the hospital, we had to go down to the mor
gue because all the upstairs floors were too
slick."
Back at home now she is chief cook again,
"but Frank helps me," she said, and they have
exchange suppers with their neighbors. Her
spaghetti suppers are one of Frank's favorites,
but he doesn't like the way she cooks black
eyed peas. When Marge's mother was visiting
them she tried to cook peas too, but gave up
in despair and offered them to the girl next
door. But Marge shares Southerners' partiality
for hot biscuits.
Marge's devoted day-time nurse is a four-year-old
who lives across the hall. Her name is
Susan too. She comes over to play with little
Susie and keep Marge company while Frank
is at school. Every once in a while she will
go up to Marge, hug her affectionately and
with serious brown eyes intent upon her, will
declare, "I love you, Marge." Little Susie shows
no jealousy but and seems to like having an
older sister.
Marge likes the Village and Chapel Hill
a great deal. She attended the football games
last fall on a cot, but since she has a rolling chair
now she will be able to sit up to see next year s
games. (The rolling chair was a gift of the
Orange County chapter of the National Four.ca
tion for Infantile Paralysis.) She would like
to stay here for years, she said Being anion
so many people her own age, she hasn t found
the adjustment as difficult as she suspects it
would be among strangers, because she thinks
they would be hesitant in offering their fricnd-
shi?-
But why should there be a barrier? Of great
est importance with a physical handicap is that
they be treated like everyone else. A great
many people have physical defects, although
oftentimes : inconspicuous ones, which do not
exclude them from their social group. As on
girl who is encumbered with braces and crutch
es said, "Why should a visible defect make any
difference to people? I don't want anybody to
say I am brave. What's brave about being
normal? It's true I get around much more
slowly than other people while I am going
up one flight of stairs, another person can
walk a block, and it is true too that I have
to consider if the simplest activity is worth
the effort involved, but why should that isolate
me in people's thinking?"
These are questions that deserve serious
consideration; because this disease that cripples
so many affects not only them but their families,
friends, and, in fact, the whole community.
Giving to the March of Dimes shows evi
dence of recognizing the problems of those
stricken with polio by helping to finance their
medical care the hospitalization and treat
ments necessary. And too, by recognizing their
problems those who give are helping polio
sufferers in large measure to becoming "normal"
again.
From the Inside
Some Political
Murmurings
By Jim Soulherland
The political pot is continu
ing to bubble and boil as the
parties begin planning and
plotting for the spring elec
tions. With nominations only
a few weeks away, the slates
are beginning to take shape.
Chuck . Hauser, managing
editor of the Daily Tar Heel,
is being pressured to accept
Billy Carmichael, III, DTH
sports editor, as his running
mate for the DTH editorship
in a co-editorship pie being
cooked up in the University
party. The DTH needs two
editors like a bridal suite needs
twin beds.
Al Lowenstein, new associ
ate editor of the DTH, is also
rumored to be after the DTH
editorship. The DTH staff is
groaning at the thought.
Tom Kerr, managing editor
of Tarnation, will lose the UP
nomination for the humor
magazine editorship unless he
switches over to the UP. In
spite of the fact that Kerr
has the backing of UP co
editors Wharton and Smith,
the UP will probably dig up
someone from their own ranks
to oppose him.
On the judicial side, Bill
M a c k i e. Student party-endorsed
chairman of the Student
council, is reportedly quietly
fighting non-partisan nomina
tions for the Student council.
Candidates for the Men's coun
cil and the Women's council
were selected by a non-partisan
board last year.
Mackie may, however,
change his mind on this mat
ter just as he did on appellate
power. After getting elected
to the Student council by sup
porting the right of students
to appeal decisions of the low
er courts to the Student coun
cil, he has now thrown his
support behind those forces
trying to destroy the right
of appeal.
The presidential situation is
unusually hazy this year.
There are no obvious choices
for the job and each party
is trying to decide which
dark horse to put up for the
position.
Wayne Brenegan has turned
thumbs down on an unofficial
SP offer of the presidential
nomination. The UP is consi
dering about six different un
knowns for the top executive
position.
Ed Best, new clerk of the
Student legislature, turned up
another case of inefficiency in
student government tlast week.
While struggling over the
chaotic legislature files, he
found 15 different student
laws that appear to have been
signed or vetoed by Presi
dent Jess Dedmond. Best, a
21-year-old freshman, is ama
zing student government lead
ers by turning out the first
red-hot clerk's job in years.
Washington Scene
Alumni Series
F.B.I.: Strange Characters
Republicans Like Him Too
By George Dixon
Strange characters, including
some of the leading malefactors
of our Nation, may be found
in the headquarters of the
Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion here. But the weirdest dis
assortment . yet on record was
assembled there Inauguration
day.
None of them had been
picked up on suspicion of
crime, although a couple look
ed as if they had just come
through the third degree.
Their battered appearance,
they explained, was due to
standing in line for hours
waiting to shake hands with
Truman.
They were present as guests
Passing Sentence
of director J. Edgar Hoover,
whose list of acquaintances
covers a bewildering range. I
never thought about it before,
but this may be the reason
for his amazing success. He
knows so many different kinds
of people that no one kind
mystify him for long.
The reason for the gathering
was that Mr. Hoover has of
fices in the Department of
Justice overlooking the parade
route and he felt it would be
nice to let a few ill-assorted
persons utilize his window
space. Naturally he chose the
more delicate types who could
not endure the rigors of stand
ing outdoors.
Among the latter was Mr.
More Reasons for Optimism
By Jonathan Marshall
In yesterday's column the
opinion was given that Presi
dent Truman's recent speeches
indicate a new and forward
looking policy by the United
States Government. Today's
column will enlarge on the
reasons that we may have for
optimism.
Not only in his speeches has
the President shown that he
intends to pursue a dynamic
policy in an effort to achieve a
world economic democracy, he
'has also shown it in his recent
1 appointments.
Newspapermen, politicians,
" and scholars alike were all im
pressed by the testimony of
Secretary AchesoA before the
Senate. The new Secretary of
State impressed many with a
genuine desire for peace, and
with the realization that the
rights and integrity of all
peoples must be recognized.
Washington was somewhat
astonished in the appointment
of career man Jesse Donald
son as Postmaster General. He
is a man who has come up
through the ranks not a
political appointment.
Perhaps the finest recent
major appointment was that
of Charles Brannan to the post
of Secretary of Agriculture.
Brannan is not an armchair
agrarian; rather, he is a man
who knows how to farm him
self, and can still initiate a
progressive agricultural policy
based on abundance and securi
ty. There have been many other
good appointments recently,
and the list is f.r too long to
mention pll of them.
It will be argued by some
peode that much of what Har
ry Truman has said in his four
major speeches tia, yej.r is
merely a repetition cf what he
said before. This is true; how
ever, the President has won an
election on the basis of those
speeches, and they now take
on increased meaning. He also
has a Congress that is largely
committed to the same policy.
We are living in a time of
great change, and in the change
lies the hope of the world. We
have a President who has
grown greatly in the last few
months and who has become
aware of the necessity for
change. He is now backed by
a Congress with new blood,
one that can make a real con
tribution to the progress of
mankind.
To achieve a world of peace
and prosperity, Mr. Truman .
has outlined four major parts
in his program, they are: "To
give unfaltering support to the
United Nations, . . . continue
our programs for world ec
onomic recovery, . . . strengthen
freedom-loving nations against
aggression, and fourth, we must
embark on a bold new pro
gram available for the im
provement and growth of un
developed areas."
It is only natural for people
who do not have the neces
sities of life.' or who have little
economic security to be con
cerned with satisfying their
basic wants. This often results
in psychological tensions and
political upheavals. Men can
not be interested in real de
mocracy as long as they lack
this economic security and
abundance. And until all
peoples have prosperity, peace
is difficult to envisage.
The four basic points of
President Truman's program
are vital to world peace. It is
a program not only for Ameri
cans, but for the whole world.
Call the program capitalistic
or socialistic, whatever you
.want. The important fact re
mains, this new policy is the
means of preserving democra
cy, providing economic securi
ty and abundance, and most
important, the greatest hope
for peace and the survival of
mankind.
Toots Shor, of New York,
Many admirers have long pre
dicted that Mr. Shor eventu
ally would be on the carpet
in the director's office, but not
as a guest. I wish to say that
Mr. Shor comported himself
fairly well, considering, al
though the director caught him
in possession of a very hot
watch.
Associate director, Clyde
Tolson was there too, as was
assistant director Lou Nichols,
but this was only natural.
They had to keep an eye on
the guests that Mr. Hoover was
unable to keep under surveil
lance. Mr. Joseph Nunan, the for
mer commissioner of Internal
Revenue, was another guest,
along with his missus, Ka
thryn. The latter takes her
politics so seriously that she
is not speaking to anyone who
did not vote for Truman. This
leaves approximately 20,000,
000 people she is not speaking
to, but this was no inconve
nience here as few admittedly
were in Washington.
But to show you the won
drous versatility of our FBI
boss when it comes to assem
bling guests, Shirley Temple
was there too. It was the first
time I had ever seen the young
actress in the flesh, and, al
though she was grown up, she
could never be confused with
Shor.
Miss Temple, now a wife and
mother, explained that she felt
quite at home in the FBI.
"By brother, Jack Temple,"
she said, "Is a G-man."
The young lady caused Mr.
Shor to beam all over his
double-puss by saying she had
been in his restaurant. But
she added, cryptically: "Now
that I am grown up I can go
almost anywhere."
Ex-commissisoner Nunan
persisted in asking why Gov.
Dewey wasn't in the parade
with the New York delegation.
Incidentally, I am indebted to
him for straightening me out
on a matter. In mv time I
covered hundreds of Tammany
rallies at which the band play
ed that "Tammany" number.
And the only words I knew
were those employed by Sing
in Sam the shaving cream
man: "No brush, no lather, no
rub in . . ."
In a dulcet voice that almost
drowned out the parade calli
ope Mr. Nunan startled the
beiabers out of the spectators
below by rendering the ori
ginal version, as follows:
"Ta-manny. Ta-manny.
"Big chief sits in his tepee,
"Cheering braves to victor.'.
"Ta-manny, Ta-jnanny
"Scalp 'em swamp 'em
"Get the wampum. . . .Ta
manny!" (Copyright, 1949, by King
Features Syndicate, Inc.)
By "Wink" Locklair
It took only 32 minutes at
the opening session of the
North Carolina General As
sembly in Raleigh to unani
mously elect Representative
Kerr Craige Ramsay, a Caro
lina graduate, Speaker of the
House. Arch Allen of Wake
County attended the Univer
sity with him in the early 30's
and nominated Mr. Ramsay
for his present position. After
each representative had called
out "Ramsay" in a roll call
vote, Sam Eggers from Watau
ga declared, "We (Republi
cans) like him too." Then Mr.
Ramsay appeared in a dark
blue double-breasted suit with
a red rosebud in his lapel to
take over his new job and
thank the House for its show
of confidence.
Born in Salisbury in 1911,
"Chief" Ramsay came to
Chapel Hill in 1927 after grad
uation from high school where
among other things, he played
bass drum in the band. His
participation in extra-curricular
activities reached to al
most every group on campus.
He was, at one time or another
during his four-year stay,
President of the Publications
Board, City Editor of the Daily
Tar Heel and DI president. Ho
was a member of the Grail.
The Golden Fleece and the
German Club. lie pledged Sig
ma Nu and earned a Phi Beta
Kappa key.
After receiving his A.B. de
gree in 1931, Speaker Ramsay
studied law here for a year be
fore going to Yale where he
received his LLB in 1034. lie
then returned to Salisbury and
practiced law with Craige and
Craige, one of the oldest and
most distinguished law firms
in North Carolina. Then he be
came interested in politics.
During the last session of the
Legislature in 1947, Mr. Ram
say was chairman of the House
Finance Committee. He is now
completing his fourth term in
the House.
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