THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1943
THE DAILY TAR HEEE
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ilia 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
Reml-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
Associate Ed..
News Ed.
City Ed
Al Lowenstein
-Sally Woodhull
...Herb Nachman
Dick Jenrette
Asst. Svt. Ed..
Staff Photographer
Editorial staff: Bev Lawler, Nat Williams. Bob Fowler.
News Staff Margaret Gaston. Sam McKeeJ, Cordon Huffmes. Leonard Dudley
Roy Parker, Don Maynard, Wink Locklair, J. L. Merritt, Virginia Forward
Art Xanthos, Fred McGee. Charles Pritchard. Jimmv Leeson, Jimmie Foust
Graham Jones, Ann Sawyer, Emily Baker, Bunnie Davis, Troy Williams.
Sam Whitehall.
Snorts Frank Allston. Jr.. Lew Chapman. Joe Cherry, Larry Fox, Morton"
Glasser, Wuff Newell, Zane Robbins, Buddy Vacen.
Business Staff: Jane Griffin. Jacy Rush. Jackie Burke. Preston Wescoat
Oliver Watkins. Erwln Goldman. Neal Cadieu, Bootsie Taylor, Jay Quin.i,
Pat Denning, Ann Green, Allen Tate, Alan Susman, Babs Kerr, Marie
Nussbaum. Jackie Sharpe, Gladys Cottrell.
Society Editor Rita Adams
Society staff: Caroline Bruner, Lucile Conley, Lynn Hammock, Jane
Gower, Helen Stephenson, Ann Gamble.
Circulation Staff: Don Snow and Shasta Bryant, Assistant Circulation Man
agers; M. J. White. Joe Wratten Andy Symmes, Neill Clegg.
For Once They're Right
For once the Republicans are on the right side.
From our neighboring city of exciting stoplights yester
day came the news that the Durham County Republican
club has sent letters to the county's legislators protesting
the increase in tuition passed by the board of trustees for
the Greater University.
"The state-supported schools have always been in the
logical choices of students from low income families and of
a large number of self-help students," the club declared.
A dollar more or less is of the greatest importance to these
students and their families. High costs of food, clothing,
textbooks and other items could well make an increase in
tuition the straw that breaks the camel's back."
When Republicans become concerned about the lower
income brackets, the news is really significant. Perhaps
this will be incentive for Democrats, too, to write their
' legislators.
It's Hard but Fair
Although the ruling made public yesterday concerning
the eligibility of candidates for campus offices will cause
a few headaches in present and future political circles, it
is eminently fair. There is no reason why students par
ticipating in extra curricula functions such as student
government and its related activities should not be re
quired to maintain just as high scholastic standing as stu
dents participating in extra curricula athletics.
The ruling will undoubtedly result in the loss to student
body organizations of some exceptionally well qualified
leaders, but this hardship will be no greater than is
already imposed upon the debate squad, glee club, band,
and Playmakers. .
In its favor the regulation has the advantage of pre
venting students already upon shaky scholastic ground
from hurting themselves by devoting too much time to
extra curricula offices instead of to their studies.
Reform-or Be Discreet
We always suspected it! Durham County ABC agents
have announced that they had discovered a still on Duke
campus, almost in the shadow of the Duke chapel! The
steam-operated, fifty-gallon still had been used at least
once when discovered by the agents, who waited without
success for a couple of weeks for the operators.
. . It wouldn't be quite gentlemanly to hint that Duke is
'.inhabited by embryo bootleggers, so we'd just rather
suggest that a bus ride downtown is much quicker and a
bit more legal than making your own.
If the Duke student body has a bus-phobia, or some such
ailment, Carolina students would be glad to give them a
lift to the business end of the Durham-Chapel Hill refresh
ment run. We realize that our Duke cousins (we use the
word very loosely) might not be quite bright and we'd hate '
to see them behind the wrong kind of bars.
So let the Duke students repent and reform or be a
bit more discreet when choosing the site for extra-curricular
chemistry activities.
Of Minor Importance
At the meeting of the board of trustees on Monday Mr.
Jack LaGrand of Wilmington introduced a resolution to
prohibit any person who is a member of or affiliated with
.the Communist party from being enrolled in or employed
by the University.
Mr. LaGrand evidently has given credence to the
Tumors that Chapel Hill is a "hotbed of Communism." In
order that he may read a first hand day-to-day account of
how the Communists are taking over the University we are
-ending him. a complimentary subscription to the Daily
Tar Heel. After a few weeks of reading about the activities
of the Campus party, the Student party and the Univer
sity party, he should be convinced that the Communist
party is of relatively minor importance at least at this
time of year.
..ED JOYNER, JR.
T. E. HOLD EN
Chuck Hauser
--.Billy Carmichael in
Adv. Mgr..... C. B. Mendenhall
Circ. Mgr. Owen Lewis
Subscrip. Mgr. Jim King
Asst. Bus. Mgr Betty Huston
James A. Mills
A. As Advice
Try Alderman,
For Example
By Adelaide Addle
Dear Miss Addle:"
I am a senior commerce ma
jor, but that's- not the problem.
This is the problem.
I am engaged to two girls
at once. This is a problem be
cause one of them lives in
Tampa, Florida, and the other
lives in Womelsdorf, Penn
sylvania, which is near Knau
ertown; and they both have
invited me to visit them over
vacation. I love them both, but
there is a law against bigamy.
The one in Womelsdorf owns
a steel mill, and is worth rough
ly seven million, is beautiful,
and well-brought-up. Money
doesn't concern me, though I,
have no immediate job pros
pects. The Tampa girl is
beautiful, has brains, and is a
divine dancer, and Florida has
a wonderful climate. But clim
ate means nothing to me,
though I do get sinus.
Needless to say, I am per
plexed. Should I take a cabana,
or a steel mill?
Signed: Commercial
Dear Commercial:
I'm glad that neither money
nor climate influence you, for
you must be objective. Both
girls sound delightful. Since
the Tampa girl has no money,
and you have no job, think
twice, for you can't dance
through life. Steel mills around
Womelsdorf, near Knauertown,
have their disadvantages too.
In either case someone will
get hurt. Therefore, I suggest
you look nearer home. Young
ladies in North Carolina are
very nice, and I hear that there
are several in Alderman dorm
who are looking for men.
Dear Miss Adelaide:
Last week I asked you how
I could overcome my shyness
and propose to my girl. You
told me to sweep her into my
arms and be master of the
situation and then say, "My
love," but something went
wrong.
We were in the Arboretum,
when I tried. I am 5ft. 7in.
and weigh 1301bs, and she is
5ft. 9in. and weighs 140 lbs.
The sweep was a slow drag. I
stammered and she thought I
said, "Don't shove you gorilla."
I now have a black eye. How
can I win her?
Signed: Bashful Bean
Dear Bashful Bean:
Chivalry is not dead. Get a
.guitar and propose in song; of
course if you can't sing or play
a guitar this has certain disad
vantages. In that case, fall on
bended knee, recite Shelley's
"Ode to the West Wind," and
when the wind blows strong,
propose.
Alumni Series
Distinguished Son of a Beloved Tar Heel
By "Wink" Locklair
Last week in Washington,
members of the North Carolina
delegation in the . House of
Representatives, dusted off the
welcome mat for Jonathan
Daniels, former DTH editor,
now editor of the Raleigh News
and Observer, who had come
to the capital for his first visit
as their new Democratic na
tional committeeman.
However politics, like jour
nalism, is not a new field for
Mr. Daniels. The son of a fam
ed and beloved civic leader
the late Josephus Daniels
his paper was one of the few
which supported Harry Tru
man last year with more than
luke-warm enthusiasm.
Mr. Daniels edited the Tar
Heel during 1921-22, one year
after Thomas Wolfe was grad
uated frcm Carolina. Paul
Green, play-wright, and Leget
te Blythe, novelist, newspaper
man and semi-play-wright,
wera alro testing the literary
waters with an experimental
toe here Li the early 23s.
In 1938, Mr. Daniels wrote
"A Southerner Discovers the
South," a book which won the
famous Mayflower cup' award
as the North Carolina "book
of the year." This marked the
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Washington Scene
Jefferson
By Gecrge Dixon
(Copyright, 1949, King fea
tures syndicate Inc.)
Ran into former Secretary
of Agriculture Claude Wickard
at the $100-a-blue-plate Jefferson-Jackson
dinner. Out of
politeness I asked if Mrs. Wick
ard was with him.
"No," he replied, sadly. "Mrs.
Wickard doesn't have $100."
Each year I become increas
ingly baffled by that Jefferson
Jackson thing. Why would any
one pay $100 to get a punch in
the nose?
The President kept taking
pokes at the "special interests"
just as he did a year ago. And,
once again, the representatives
of special interest applauded
as if he were talking about
someone else.
If you don't think the vest
ed interests were heavily rep
resented, where do you think
they dug up the $100-a-dish
customers? You ain't paid $100
for a $2 snack yourself lately,
have you?
I don't see how the Presi-.
dent could have failed to de
tect the irony in it. But he
played it straight and so did
the patrons. It's a strange
game, mates.
It made me wonder, sort of,
whether the President real
izes the campaign is over.
The stuff he gave out smacked
of straight vote-getting ma
terial. The Midases present must
-v.
JONATHAN DANIELS
first time a newspaperman had
ever i -jct ivo 1 t A;
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view of Literature. He also
wrote a novel, "Clash of
Angels," obtaining for him a
Guggenheim fellowship on
which he did a year's study in
Europe.
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- Jackson Sidelights
have squirmed until they got
cricks in the back. But they
continued to smile sickly
even next day when the Re
publican criticism got going.
The G. O. P. had a lot of
stuff to play with. The Presi
dent, it contended, had hit out
too wildly without any specif
ic direction to his blows.
Former Assistant Attorney
General Roy St. Lewis sum-'
med up some of the opposition
feeling next day at lunch with
John L. Lewis. The Mine
Workers boss asked Mr. St.
Lewis what he thought of the
speech.
"I think the President over
reached himself in punching
at the vested interests," re
. plied Mr. St. Lewis. "There
j are quite a few voters in .this
j country who still have vests."
i The mine boss grunted.
The day after the $100 din
ner I was listening to a S. O.
B. (Sweet Old Ballad) when
my social secretary, Mrs. Tab
itha Talcott Pratt came waltz
ing in. She asked what I
was looking so glum about and
I said I was bemoaning the
fact that I hadn't been able
to afford a bottle of cham
pagne to crack over Perle
Meota.
"She made her maiden
speech before the Jefferson
Jacksons," I explained. "Nat
urally this called for a rare
vintage to be dashed over her
prow but I was a little short
of champagne money."
"I heard about that maiden
speech,"" cut in my senior nav-
Mr. Daniels took over
editorship cf the News
Observer in , 1935 - when
the
and
his
Cath er went to Mexico City as
Ln.tei States ambassador for
FrankLn Roosevelt. (Jonathan
was FD.i's press secretary for
a time in 1945.)
The most recent journalistic
award to come to Mr. Daniels
v. as for an editorial, "The Task
i.i Uic South," which won first
-.ize for the best editorial cf
.S-3 at the North Carolina
press institute here in Chapel
iim recently. The sentiments
expressed in that long and
probing essay had been said
earlier by him, however, in an
aedrcss he made at the
Woman's college of Furman
university in March, 1939.
TV-oee who read his Raleigh
prper are familiar with them,
also. He said, "The only de
fense against the South is ci:e
salvation of the South
ti.at is a task 'for both thi
r: n and tiiis Nation. Its :
and
s "e-3olu-
2 it.!
uon will net wait while
C:i".-rs rrow. We rhould
be
wise everywhere in America
if we' fear it and face it. The
Southern problem is not mere
ly Southern a unique Ameri
can problem grows in
South."
the
al aide, Machinists Mate Mi
chaelangelo Rembrandt . Kel
ly. Where did Perle hire the
maiden?"
I informed him this was
. merely a figure of speech and
that it was quite a la mode for
a matron to make a maiden
speech. Mr. Kelly muttered
that they didn't do things that
way when he was a kid.
Mrs. Pratt asked if her dear
friend, Perle, had delivered a
good address.
"It must have been," I said
"People paid $100 a Democrat
to hear it. That's more than
it costs to hear a seal play "My
Country 'Tis of Thee' on the
horns."
Mr. Clarence W. (Slats)
Raff erty, the retired safecrack
er, said he understood Mrs.
Mesta had to speak in ' com
petition with President Tru
man and asked how that came
about.
"There were two Jefferson
Jackson dinners," I said, "So
many suckers were dying to
kick in a hundred slugs, now
that the Prez looks more per
manent, that they couldn't all
be gotten in one room. So
they had one dinner at the
Statler where Mr. Truman
made his major speech and
another at the Mayflower
where Perle orated."
Miss Reid wanted to know
which I thought was better.
"I figure it for a draw," I
said. "The President spoke
with more authority, but Perle
presented the more impress
ive figure."
Machinists Mate Kelly said
there certainly had been a lot
of excitement around the cap
ital lately.
"There's been all sorts of
things to make life interest-.
ing," he added. "Like the Pres
ident calling a name which
I used to get my mouth wash
ed out with ioip and water
' hen I sid -and the big
fight over Taft-Hartley and
- -but I gott.i go now."
I aiked him where he had
to go in such a hurry, and he
s:.id:
"I gotta beat it over :o the
Wh.;te Hou-e and give another
medal to General Vaughan."
Referring to a member of
our craft who has just fallen
rff '.he wagon, Homer Joseph
Dod-je commented: "He's ta
pering on."
Furious end forensic Sena-
:. y::"v-rj Lenger, of North
' i' rtriding up and
i rn te number the
' 'e'i-.-ering a tirade
" r "or.'ign policy.
2 passed a eol-'-
-' he o nged on
0 r.-jciation
.' tl-U- ;..iiJ.'.!J ' Ilc'.ii-
gan, the greet end dignified
globaliet. He gave Van's desk
an extra herd whack caus
ing a 10-inch eplit in the wood.
Langer frenquently goes
against the grain.
Write Away
' T.V.A. Trip Planned
Editor:
May I use your "Write Away" column for an unusual
purpose? The Cosmopolitan club are making arrangements for
a group of their members to visit the TV A installations at
Knoxville at the beginning of the spring quarter. It is hoped
to leave Chapel Hill on Thursday, March 31, and return on
Sunday, April 3. In inserting -this letter in your column I hope
that those members of the club who were not present at the
meeting when the trip was arranged, and who wish to go,
may be able to get in touch with me before it is too late.
Secondly, we have a problem in finding transportation. It
occurred to me that some of your readers who own automobiles
might like to join in the trip and thus do a service to the
foreign students on the campus, none of whom possess any
form of mechanical propulsion.' By going in cars and pooling
expenses, we hope we shall be able to keep down the cost
of the trip to a reasonable minimum.
I would be glad if any interested car-owners would contact
me at 105 B dormitory (phone F-403), or at any of our 4 o'clock
Sunday meetings in the Horace Williams lounge in Graham
memorial.
S. K. Lawry
Same Disorganized Polemics
Editor:
Having profited greatly by the chastisement which Mr.
Freistadt administered to me earlier this week, I approached
Mr. Bill Robertson's latest opus with fear and trembling. I was
all set to find in it the sincerity, the logic, the high intellectual
tone which Mr. Freistadt had led me to expect in the public utter
ances of his cotagonists. I added no gratuitous "noes", and I gave
it more than a cursory glance: I was more than ready to argue
with what he said, not with what I would like him to have said.
Frankly, I didn't find much that I would like him to have said.
I found the same frenzied and disorganized polemics that I had
found before. Except for his statement that Cardinal Mindzsenty
seemed to be himself physically (and who can say exactly what
that might have meant?), Mr. Robertson did not give one really
relevant fact about the Mindzsenty case. What he did give us
was a long string of rhetorical questions (not out-and-out state
ments, be it noted) about the Cardinal's behavior, all designed
to give the impression that they referred to crimes which were
common knowledge.
This is the very attitude which always arouses a feeling of
rebellion in me whenever I read Bill Robertson's columns or
his more recent efforts the bland assumption that every pro
nouncement made by Moscow or one of its satellites is the divinely-given
truth. I myself have read things in defense of the
Cardinal that he opposed the Nazis and their anti-Semitism,
that he sheltered the Jews during the Nazi occupation, that the
Nazis emprisoned him for these activities. Of these claims Mr.
Robertson had not a word to say, even though they were widely
disseminated. He did not even deign to observe that the com
mercial press seemed to approve of the Cardinal's alledged op
position to the Nazis and his help to the Jews. I fail to see how
anything like this could lead tc "serious debates between stu
dents equally searching for the truth." And as for all that busi
ness about having "full respect for. one another's sincerity," I
get the impression that Mr. Robertson must consider his op
ponents, (not to mention his readers) more simple-minded than
sincere.
So in the end, all of Mr. Freistadt's excellent advice came
to naught. Well, not entirely, I must admit, for I have taken a
vow I will never again misquote Bill Robertson, even knowing
ly. In return for this, I hope Mr. Freistadt will not accuse me any
more of quoting Engels, even unknowingly. If he will look around
a bit, he will find that there were philosophers before Engels as
well as brave men before Agamemnon.
Sincerely,
James S. Patty
P. S. I have stocked up on salt in order to have a few grains
around in case Mr. Freistadt should persist in being so generous
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