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THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1949 THE DAILY TAB HEEH PAGE TWO arbe IJailylaTar M eel Th official newspaper of the Publications Board of the University of North HiU. 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 Editors Jack Brown Frank Allston. Jr. News Office Mgr. .. Sally Woodhull Asst. Sports Ed. Buddy Vaden Society Editor Caroline Bruner Adv. Mgr. - Oliver Watkins Staff Photographer Editorial Board Banks Talley. Ed Tenney. Dave Sharp. Severn Wallis. News Staff Charles McCorkle. Margaret Gaston, Fred McGee, Roy Parker. Don Maynard, Leonard Dudley, J. L. Merritt. Stewart McKeel. Jack Eng lish, Graham Jones, Art Xanthos, Mike McDaniels. Emily Baker Wink Locklair. Virginia Forward. Bill Johnson. Henry Albright. Wiley Hall. Sam Whitehall, Sports Wuff Newell. Joe Cherry. Lew Chapman. Larry Fox. Morton Glas ser. Zane Robbins. Andy Taylor. Business Staff Jane Griffin, Betty Huston, Jackie Burke, Trish Denning. Ann Green, Neal Cadieu, Bootsie Taylor. Alan Susman. Erwin Goldman. John DeLoach, John Ross, Sonny Smith. Blakp Leckie. Don Stanford. Circulation Staff Neill Clegg. Asst.; M. J. White. Joe Wratten. Andy Symmes, Robert Graham. Society Staff Lynn Hammock, Jane Gower, Gloria McLeroy. Night Edilor: Charles McCorkle Nighi Sporls: Buddy Vaden Unusual But Not (Al Winn, chairman of the elections board, has been cjiven an opportunity today to answer an editorial of the Daily Tar Heel criticizing his committee for running out of ballots at certain polls during the recent election.) I think they did a great job. They did a lot of things in a few days that very few people knew about and most of the things they did turned out well; for those many things they received no recognition because they were done well and, consequently, no one noticed them. But there were a couple of times they missed perfection either because of mis calculation or other people's lack of forethought, and there they received what may well be more than their share of criticism. The people who engineered the election, I mean. They did a lot of work for nothing except the realization that they were doing an essential job in student government, and they did their work well. Take Jim Gwynn, for instance. He was in charge of the committee that made up the ballots on which were listed 238 candidates running for 63 different offices in 13 districts under four main subdivisions. That complicated combina tion produced 19 different ballots in the primary. Further, he had to calculate approximately how many of the over 7,000 students would vote so that he would not order too many ballots and thereby waste student money, nor order so few that there might not be enough. He had the same job to do a week later for the runoff while arranging for recounts in a few disputed positions and checking numerous expense ac counts, yet never once did he complain or fail to do the best work of which he was capable. Or Dick Murphy. He was the man in charge of the polls on election day. Realizing the great amount of footwork he would necessarily do moving from one to another of the 13 polls scattered from Victory Village and the University Trail er Court to Alderman Dorm, Nelson Taylor offered to get a .car and help him. (May I say here that without Nelson's ' help the task would have been impossible.) Dick had to see that the ballot boxes were distributed to the 13 polls with the correct ballots (each of the 19 different varieties had to be distributed in adequate quantity to the Correct one or more of the 13 polls) , stamps, stamp-pads, student directories, polls posters, and instructions for the polls-tenders. Then he had to spend the rest of the day trotting from poll to poll empty ing boxes and replenishing depleted stocks of ballots. In the primary he met with a good deal of cooperation from the polls-tenders, and the whole affair worked right well. In the runoff the ballot orders were cut to 3,000 (only 2440 voted) to prevent wastage of student money, but that also entailed keeping fewer excess ballots at each poll. Polls tenders often failed to anticipate their need for ballots so that Dick could shift excess ballots from other polls; consequently, they ran out several times before Dick could comply with their tardy calls for ballots. The failure was due not to any carelessness on Dick's part, but to the poll-tenders who failed to state their needs in time adequate to allow compliance. Recognizing the handicaps under which he worked, I think he did a most remarkable job. And Sam Manning, Bill Branch, Don Hames, John Brock mann, Dick Murphy, Jim Southerland, Charlie Foley, Jim Gwynn, Jacy Rush, Carol Homan, Eleanor de Grange, Davis Byrd and Stan Fox undertook the drudgery of counting and recounting the ballots. They gave of their time and energy (some of them worked until 7:00 a.m. one morning totaling the results) and got no word of recognition for the work they did so well. But the people who know, the people who wit nessed the pains they took to complete a task to the satis faction of their own consciences, appreciate fully the fine work they did. May student government find in the future more of these people who are willing to work hard and un tiringly to contribute toward the fulfillment of an ideal. It badly needs them! AlWina DICK JENRETTE T. E. HOLD EN Bill Buchan Billy Carmlchael III Circ. Mgr Subscrip. Mots. Shasta Bryant . David Woodruff Wnrto Holder Bus. Office Mgr. Ed Williams Asst. Bus. Mgr. C. B. Mendenhall James A. Mills Unhonorcd The WMHI1IGT0II SCEIIE By George Dixon (Copyright, 1949, King Features Syndicate, Inc.) "" WASHINGTON, April 20 Whenever you see a bunch of politicos in this town suddenly begin making a fuss over a guy they have hitherto treated as one of the neighbor's children you can be pretty sure they've heard he is due for a big job. They're acting that way now ioward U. S. District Judge James P. McGranery. Judge McGranery is no stranger to our Fair City, hav ing served five terms as Con gressman from Philadelphia, where he now occupies the bench. He quit Congress in 1943 to be an Assistant At torney General. After being appointed to the judgeship, McGranery showed up in Washington only infre quently. But, in the last few months, although his court is still in session, he has practical ly taken to commuting. On two recent occasions he was guest of the Chatterbox Club here, which is very polit ically conscious. Both times he was treated as if he were the Queen of the May. All over the Club you could hear the boys whispering: "It's in the bag for McGranery! He's to be the new Attorney Gen eral!" There's no question that President Truman has been wanting to do something big for McGranery. There was talk that the President want ed him for Postmaster Gener al after the retirement of Bob Hannegan. But it didn't look then as if any Truman-given job would last long and the jurist did not relish giv ing up his $15,000 a year spot on the bench. It'd be a terrible joke on the wiseacres if their dope proves to be wrong. They'll be demanding that he return all the slaps on the back and gift cigars. If Judge McGranery gets the Attorney Generalship he can al ways turn to his hearth and home for legal advice. His wife, the former Regina Clark, is a lawyer too. She is also the author of a code of 8 simple rules for happy marriage: 1. Yield on little points. 2. Be as fair to your spouse as you would be to your bus iness partner. 3. Be sure you have common interests and work together for common purposes. ' 4. Don't conceal financial wor ries or financial successes. 5. Avoid letting your family or friends influence you against your mate. 6. Be moderate in work and play. 7. Respect the privacy of your spouse. 8. Keep a sense of humor. It'll be nice to know we have an Attorney General living hap pily by the code book. McGranery will have to wait at least three weeks be fore being named because Tom Clark has the job cinched un til after May 7. On that night he is giving his annual birth day party for the President. Mr. Clark has given the President's birthday party ever since both held their present jobs. This will be the fourth hand-running but the insiders say it will be the last. The party, as heretofore, will be held in the 1925 F Street Club, but it will be the night before the President's birthday. Mr. Truman was born May 8, 1884, but the 8th comes on a Sunday this year and the Pres ident refuses to whoop it up on the Sabbath. The President will probably wait a couple of weeks after that before announcing the change. It ain't considered eti quette, even in political Wash ington, to tell the guy who's throwing you a party that he's through. First Distributed by King Features Syndicate by ftrrmnean ent with The Washington Star - Along with birds and bees and the new planetarium, spring also brings baseball, which in turn brings hordes of students to Emerson. Our ball team seems to be doing very well, but I am worried about the spectators. Their conduct in some cases has not been, up to the standards of this great institution. Soon we will be entertaining fellow mem bers of the Big Four and, natu rally, we want to impress them with our heritage and good taste; therefore I offer the following rules of behavior in the hope that they will be followed, in good faith. (1) Football players will please refrain from sun bathing dur ing games. In the past, this ac tion has proved, very embarras sing to the coeds, some of whom have threatened to boycott the games altogether unless some thing is done. After all, how un inhibited can you get! (2) Fans will please not shout into the ears of other fans and faculty wives. Such cries as "you're better than "he are" and "."throw the goo goo ball" are not only' in poor taste, but rupture ear drums as well. As one of our players put it, "for heaven lhakes, with all that yelling a guy can't hear himthelf think." (3) Don't toss bottles at the base umpire; he may be some body's mother. As one of the base umpires put it, "for heaven thakes, with all that yelling" -Music Review Very Fine Piano By "Wink" Robert MacDonald, William Waters, Felder Graham and Ed win Steed were heard in Hill Hall Tuesday evening in a joint piano recital which reflected a great deal of praise on the musi cians themselves and on their teacher, Virginia Hare. It was an unusually short program, less than an. hour of actual play ing, but it did not mean that, the selections chosen were skim py or elementary. Far from it. Mr. MacDonald, opened the recital with an excellent inter pretation of Beethoven's Sonata in F Sharp Major, Op. 78, a ' very melodious work which the pianist obviously understands and enjoys playing". This was followed by a group of Brahms pieces played by Mr. Waters, a senior music major who has been studying with Miss Hare for four years. First was tha graceful Capric cio in B M;nor, Op. 73, No! 2, which Cyb.l Drake also played in her reel Lei la-.t Thursday ev?n.;n-?; th" In- n'-zzo in A Minor, Op. 11G, No. 2, and the Capriccio in D Minor, Op. 116, No. 7, which closed the first half of the program. Mr. Waters, who is ' one of the most useful and helpful students in Hill Hall, knows the music of Brahms Things Come First -- .,7 THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE Tripe and Trivia Rules Of Behavior By Bob Sturdivanl oh well, forget it. (4) Don't razz the opposing pitcher. Sometimes this causes the opposing pitchers to develop complexes which make the Duke psychology department curious, and we certainly don't want ,them prying around over here. It is a well-known fact that the Duke psychology department will get curious about anything. (5) Bottle collectors are not to be pushed down the steps. They may be somebody's children. (6) Do exercise dignity and restraint at all times. This way the umpires will always be glad to return. Feeling that a warning of things imminent is in order, I wish to urge all students to be on guard against a new wave of propaganda which may soon sweep the campus. In the past the more radical ele ments, communists by trade, have flooded us with a deluge of disa and data about Marxi an precepts and such. Word now has it that the Reds are on the way out and are soon to be replaced by the . slightly more conservative KKK. This may prove to be somewhat of a relief for those who take an interest in such matters, but to the average bourgeois student it will mean naught but more subterfuge . in the daily. There is a move afoot to squelch this campaign before it reaches the stage of irritability. Locklair well (he has given an all Brahms recital here) and these three pieces were knowingly rendered. The music after intermis sion was from the Impression istic School of compositions, ; men who are perhaps most admired and best known for their orchestral work: Gabriel Faure. Otiorino Respighi and - Claude Debussy. Felder Gra .ham played Faure's Impromp tu in F Minor, a Notturno by Respighi and Debussy's Danse. The Danse has long been a ; favorite with concert audi ences and the audience in Hill Hall liked the way Mr. Gra ham played it. A group of three pieces De bussy composed between 1896 1901 entitled Pour Le Piano was Edwin Steed's contribution to the program. The three sections Prelude, Sarabande, and Toc cata are among the most imag inative compositions the French man wrote. The Toccata is a man-cized job to undertake, and Mr. Steed who is a mathematics not a music major was indeed capable of the assignment, and it provided a rousing end to a very enjoyable and well-pre-pared-for evening. To date, however, the instigators have successfully eluded the posse, composed of fearless stu dent government leaders. Rum or has it that the Klan forces are rallying around the K A house, but this group of aristo cratic gentry has denounced this possibility with a fervor. An equally unreliable source has called attention to similarity to be found between the Chi Phi cross and the KKK symbol. This, too, has run the gamut of denials. Let us take solace in the fact that some of the best minds in campus politics are out to purge this menace to the reading public, and results should be forthcoming. Pleased as Punch By George Dixon The President, incidentally, is death on unorthodox poker. He insists on straight stud and draw no deuces, on e-eyed jacks, wild; no 7-toed Pete or spit-in-the-ocean. At poker, Mr. Truman defi nitely does not practice what he preaches. He inveighs against bluffing but tries it every so often. He also declaims at the damfoolishness of trying to fill an inside straight. But he tries it now and then and is pleased as punch with himself when it works. Irked by all the long drawn out debate over the Economic Cooperation Administration ap propriations, white-maned Tom Connally, of Texas, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, snapped: "The trouble with some Sen ators is that they approach a subject with a closed mind and an open mouth." To The Editor MARXING TIME Editor: The local Marxists aren't do ing Marxism much good, and I think the reason is that most of them are suffering acute cases of Protracted Naivete. At, least symptoms of it are evident in their arguments: Cit ing theory instead of practice in offering proof of Marxism's accomplishments, listing sub jective sources instead of objec tive sources in interpreting those accomplishments, and being hysterical in the face of demon strable facts. If they expect to convince anybody that Stalinist Marxism is the best form of Marxism or that any form of Marxism is any good, the Marxists will have to change their tactics. Rather than insult reason, they will have to astound it. In my opinion they have acted like fools so far, and are acting like fools now. But in fairness I add they seem to be sincere fools. Charles R. Scales Tookin' In Massa Smif By Tookie Hodgson Over the span of years, it has been this scribe's pleasure and privilege, as well as bounden duty, to poke genteel jests in the direction of Mr. E. Carrihg ton Smith, the Entertainment y Emperor of Chapel Hill. As all of you probably know, Ole Massa Smif is the proprietor of the Carolina and Village Theaters two pleas ure palaces which serve sim ultaneously as motion picture auditoriums, beer gardens, joke exchanges, and battle fields for popcorn-hurlers. These emporiums, which in large measure relieve the stress and strain of our everyday, country-club existences, are too well-attended to require any de scription. Mr. Smith, however, is another story. He is a dedi cated man, full of vim and vig or. The object of Mr. Smith's in tense activity is somewhat vague.. It probably lies between acquiring the latest of Holly wood extravaganzas for home consumption and evicting some furtive cigarette fiend from the confines of one or the other of his palladiums. Whatever the case, this department is in sym pathy with his aims and am bitions. Frankly, he does a darn good job of getting here fustest with the mostest of the new films. A glance at the dismal programs of the Durham flea traps will testify to this. Moreover, Mr. Smith's feel ings are lenient, and even kind ly, in regards to the little idio syncracies displayed by the troops who charge down upon his establishments each after noon. Such Carolina theatrical traditions as never whisper ing when you can shout, pop ing paper-bags, belching fum es of Blalz, sticking one's feet in another's neck, and rendering learned and aud iblediscourses on the anat omies of young ladies flashed upon the screen, seem to dis turb him not one whit. Even adverse commentary directed against "The Sign of the Cross." a film which Mr. Smith has consecrated with in his heart, and one which he has shown in Chapel Hill perhaps 40 or 50 times dur HORIZONTAL 1. legal wrong 5. sheep call 8. flimsy 12. inner coat of the iris 13. doctrine 14. capital of Italy 15. lewels w 48. evergreen shrub 51. Assam silkworm 52. price 53. blithe 54. opening 55. pile 66. Nether. lands city 57. rim i 16. Russian rulers 18. serpent 20. Shoshonean Indian 21. printer's measures 22. a Moslem 25. woodland spirit 27. twilight 28. pay back 32. mulct 34. royal residence 35. West Point pupil 36. pouch 37. decimal unit 38. easiest VERTICAL 1. struggles : .Ii w : wZ-"Zl ai!ifzfii -----WLZZZZZ 11; 11 vyy vff Vy ls 59 27 77p 4 STOy " w w Mil Q-l 1 Yr Answer to yesterday's puzzle. !lisnioifi I?? BS.51E TEN ----.111 s e t;4--- iEI" at Ep ANTE UAjn? -1KZ TREAD - 1 1 1 T u T mJLn 4 M AT N pTg 1EN1 rE L g 41. nocturnal flying mammal . 44. rowing implement' - 45. restricted .menu -. k t ing the past few years, does noi rume r smoking exterior. Of course, this paragon of impressarios is pnly human, and one must admit that he regards alarm clocks hidden in paper bags and set to ring at some crucial moment in the picture with an extremely jaundiced eye. Nor does he care for cow bells, fire-crackers, roman can dles, or fist-fights within the confines of his salons. Drunks, he doesn't seem to mind very much provided they pass out as soon as they sit down. As a matter of fact, drunks are profitable to the motion picture industry. Suppose 300 (a conservative estimate) troops imbibe too freely early one Sat urday Night. At 11:15 they are stupified Qure and simple, as they slap down their $.38 and . enter the theatre, intent upon viewing the late show. Then, when the barrel organ stops, and the film is cast upon the screen, they find that they are unable to see the picture clearly. Be cause of the general hub-bub athwart the aisle, they can not hear anything. Ergo, they leave and return to the the ater on Sunday Afternoon to see what they missed the night before. But no use they .are so tired from their exertions of last night that they fall into a deep and dis mal coma. Another $.38 down the drain. Comes Monday, and another free afternoon. Our lush finally sees his picture, discovering it to be lousy, and that he has shelled out some $1.14 to assure him self of this fact. Frankly it's a mystery to me why Mr. Smith doesn't throw out all those jelly-beans and chocolate bars out of the lobby, and put in a good cocktail bar. I would, but then I don't like chocolate bars. In summation, I should like to say that the only thing I hold against Mr. E. Carrington Smith is the fact that he has never given me any free tickets so that I could see his shows and pan them in the Daily Tar Heel the next morning. This seems unreasonable to me. 4-21 11. promontory 17. traced back 19. choice in general 23. salutation 24. lamprey 25. Indian moccasin 26. wine vessel 29. muttered, as prayers 30, ' high card 31. intense yearning (colloq.) 33. thing, in law 34. close comrade 36. circulate 39. feminine name 40. sifting utensil 41. twain 42. plant of lily family 43. web-like membrane 46. a high pitched sound 47. glut 49. lofty mountain 50. cereal gra 2. baking chamber 3. stayed 4. set duties 5. harness part 6. postulate 7. Italian make violin 8. prefix: thrice 9. sharpen 10. Mohamme dan cleric
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