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t 1 5 1 THTJHSDAY, JX17UAP.7 n - t " PAGE TV,T0 THE DAILY TAR HEEL 3Tf) e lO&ilij 1 3fat eel TheoITicliil newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina. C'twifxi J f ill. vthere it is issu:i daily during the regular sessions of the University by the Colonial Press, inc., except Mondays, examination and vacation period, and the summer terms. Entered as second-class rnater at the p;t oflice of Chapel Mill, N. C, under the act of March 3, 1879. Sub fcription price: $8 00 p-r year. $2.00 per rquarter. Member of The Associated I'rcs. The Associated Irs ?nd AP features ere exclusively entitled to the use for republication of ail news fc.-iturs published herein. hltlar 7. .'Z - - DICK JENRETTE Hunntnut Manaqer ; C. B. MENDENHALL 'Mahaqif,Vid7t0T .'. " -...CHUCK HA USER Sport Editor .... . TAYLOR VADEN NvnsKdTur , - HOY PARKER, jr.' lie ik. Editor . .. . . ZAKE ROEETN'S . A-oae. Ed tor . .... . . . .... CAROLINE BKUNEK JiSittjriZl Stajl: Xick "Brown, Hill kellam. Mike McDaiiel. Tom What ton, Charlie Cibsoh. Joe Sykora. Vestal laylor, Al Jolmson. Charlie Joyner, Dave S ha r fie, Jul if Stu mp ' j NuV Stuff: Rolfe Neill. Don Maynaid. Glenn Harden, Bill Johnson, Wuff Newell, Sam Mi-Keel. Mark Sun.ner, Art Xanthos. Graham Jones, Charlie Clibeon. Charlie brewer, Cinnv Jones. M. K. Jones. Hfivines SUif): Oliver Walking, Ed Williams. Neal Cadieu. June Crockett. Don .Stanford.' Boots v Tavlor. Bill lirain. Frank Daniels. Ruth Dennis. Evalyn H.irruon, Dan Hobon, K.ith Sanders. Veegy Sheridan, P.odney Taylor, Marie. Withets.Marfjret OrirrHt. Hownrd TicKle. siVrix Staff: Liiiry" Fox? f rank Alston. Jr., Joe Chejry. Lew Chapman, Andv Tavlor, Art Creenbaum, EifT Roberts, Ronald Tilley, Billy Peacock, K.:n Barton. St n H Photoqruvher .Society Slaf); Peggy Wood. Marie Withers. Betty Ann Yowell, Judy Sanford, Margery Storey. More on SP-CP Merger Even before the University Party walked off with the lion's share of the Legislature seats in fall quarter elections, rumors have been rampant over the campus and in Y-Court political confabs over the possibility of a merger between the Campus and Student Parties. Fuel was added to these reports as a result of Tuesday night meetings by both the SP and CP, at which time the "merger" possibilities were discussed openly. '. From all reports, the CP seems to be tending toward "merging" with the SP, One gathers this from the opinions of! most of the party leaders. However, most of the students who voted the Campus Party ticket last quarter probably arc still very much in the dark about the use of the term "merger." A number of CP men are of the opinion that this term amounts to little more than disbanding and joining the Student Party. Others are convinced thatva true merger of principles, aims, and possibly a name other than "Student Party" could be attained. At any rate, the campus as a whole deserves to know just what this proposed move would mean. The CP has appointed a committee charged with investi gating the "possibility" of a merger. Their findings should , ., , . . ... ,, The Student Party meanwhile seems to be enjoying itself in its position of deciding whether to permit the CP to join or. whether not to make the necessary concessions for a merger. The SP certainly would welcome the opportunity to. take in new members in order to present a united front against the University Party and be rid of the very trouble some CP opposition in certain dormitory districts. However, the SP, remembering its presidential victory last spring de spite the efforts of both the UP and CP, can afford to be a bit choosy in the mattery of compromising with the CP. SP Chairman Bill Prince has promised his group that "no com promises will be made" and former party chairman Fred Thompson objected to the idea of holding a meeting with the CP to discuss the merger, advising that "it is not wise to sit down and bargain." Sol Kimerling, prominent party mem ber, expressed another sentiment in his fear that a get together with the CP would end in the SP making "conces sions." Many details must be worked out before any merger is made, along with the ending of many old prejudices. The forthcoming meeting between CP and SP wheels should pro vide plenty of fireworks. These moves are well-worth the attention of the entire student body. Remember the Voters The Student Legislature will get its winter quarter ses sions off to an auspicious start tonight when the new legis lators will be sworn in prior, to taking up their duties. These newly-elected students made a lot of promises last quarter when they were running for office, and they now have an opportunity to do something about these vows. Ted Leonard, student body vice-president, yesterday had a few words of wisdom for the new legislators. He urged a pplicy of "closer contact between members of the legisla ture and their constituents back in the dormitories." This cer tainly has not been the policy of legislators in the past, who seemingly have displayed no responsibility to the voters in their district. Cooperation between the legislators and voters constitutes the very core of student government activity at Carolina. The 1950 solons should remember this, and take every opportunity to carry the problems and questions of legislative work back to the students. In this way only can interest be built up in student government. These Serge Jaroff and The Origi nal Don Cossack Chorus and Dancers came to Chapel Hill Tuesday evening much heralded and went away later that night much cheered. Never before' has an SEC entertainment program evoked such enthusiastic audi ence response as did Jaroff s fine choral group. The ovations they received compared quite favor ably with the pandemonium which reigns at Memorial Hall pep rallies. And few events, indeed, move our soplhisticated students spontaneous expres sions of interest and approval similar to those accorded the Choo Choo and the stalwarts of Snavely. , Th Cosiacks' singing was msi pleasing, but even more eaptivaiing to the audience Maestro Jaroff's rapturous re pMte So tpplaute, lh u prb 4Bif of John Kozak James A. Mills Don Cossacks Russians Are Okay By Bill Kellam and Nicohai Botschko. and the clowning of an unidentified and unpronounceable tenor. As expected, Jaroff selected a program which was well suited to the Cossacks' talents, al though the five opening relig ious numbers, while beautifully done, dragged a bit. The Cos sacks have the type voices that sound better in a chorus than in solo, all of them being rather weak in the upper reaches of the scale. However, one would have to go to a first class opera company to obtain better singers. Th singers were superbly co-ordinated. Their practice o! starting each number with the correct pitch, despite the fact that they had no accom panist to strike an introduc tory chord, was most impres sive to the audience. Jaroff's subtle direction .though he'd Pitching Horseshoes by -Billy Rose A few years back, I got the nobby notion of reviving "llen ' ry VIII," ' by one : W. Shak speare, and the day after the first threeline announcement ap peared on' the drama pages my office was cram-jammed .with, .well kyown actors who were willing to work for what ordi narily would have been agents' commissions. . . ; " r i ' r ' . i . - f auDsequenxiy, ior reasons mat have nothing to do with' this, piece, I pigeon-holed my plans for doing "Henry," but I sure learned a lot about show folks during the month I was buddy ing up to the Bard. To nine out of ten of ihem, I found, pentameters of Wil liam the Great are the choco late suace on the profiterole, and during rehearsals they go about their business as if they were in a temple of worship. On opening night, as far as the cast is concerned, the theatre has stained glass windows, and I'm not exag gerating when I say the ac tors would probably kill any one who tried to foul up the performance. If you think I'm using "kill" carelessly, try this one on for sighs. . Back in 1904, an obscure thespian named Robert Mantell, who had been playing dessiil tory one-nighters in the Mid west, received word that a choice Broadway theatre would be available during the Christ mas season.' He promptly can celled his road engagements and brought his troupe to New York, but shortly after his arrival he discovered that the "choice" theatre he had been offered was the Princess, a small second-story auditorium on Broad way between 27th and 28th Streets. No more daunted than sol vent, Mantell announced he would present his production of "Richard III" on December 5. and when friends and col leagues warned him that not a hundred people would climb flight of rickety stairs to see a Shakespearean play during the holidays, he shrugged his threadbare shoulders and posted his rehearsal schedule. Immediately, however, there was trouble. The stage crew insisted on a scenic rehearsal, and when the impoverished . actor refused they decided to get even by lousing up his show on opening .night. - On the evening of the 5th, a minute after Mantell began to decibel his way through the initial lines, a stagehand lunged at hims from behind a cloth drop and almost knocked him into the pit. And a few moments later the same "accident" hap pened again. When the act was over. Mantel! quietly told the crew that he would kill the next man who tried to disrupt his performance and halfway through the second act he darned near did. In the mid dle of a speech, he saw the outline of a hand behind the curtain trying to locate him and, never faltering in his lines, he drew his dagger and plunged the blade full-force into the drop. When he went into the wings at the end of the scene, one of the crew grabbed him occasionaly bounce on his toes to draw out a high note, was excellent. The exceptionally, ; n i m b 1 e. ; ' dancing of the two. rubber men, , won over the . audience . com pletely. .They went through their ; routine of typical Russian i rou- tines, to the rhythm of music supplied by the Cossacks, with an impressive vengeance.' ' - The unnamed tenor proved one of the finest comedians ever to appear in Memorial -Hall His piercing whistle, -mimicking of the other singers, shouts, and mugging was top notch comedy. Tiny litlle Serge was the sensation, though. He was showmanship from the top of his balding dome to the toes of his tremendous, shiny black boots. He shephered his mon strous singers about like a terrier tending elephants. His eye-rolling, courtly!. f- 1 ' ...!- On Journalistic Genius Don't ever let anyone tell you that working on a college news ; paper isn't fun. It is providing, of course, you possess the journ alist's most essential characte-' ristic a warped sense of hum-, or. Sure, there's plenty of real 'work involved and you may ihave to give up a few trivial '! things ' like studying or eating : or taking those long, meditative, afternoon strolls through the ' hauntingly beautiful wilds ' of Orange County. But it's worth it. The life you lead as a mem ber of society's fourth estate will more than compensate for such minor inconviences. Don't get the wrong idea though. It isn't the stories you write or the free tickets to the Planetarium you get that makes this newspaper racket interesting it's the people you meet. And you don't even t have to leave the confines of the news office to meet ihem. They always come to you. The most interesting of these people all suffer from an ancient malady which, strangely enough, attacks only the unini tiated. This illness takes the form and said, "You've killed our head carpenter." "I hope to Heaven I did, said i Mantell. Eut when he examined the stagehand he found the wound was only a gash in the thigh. I To make sure no one would misunderstand how he felt, the actor went up to his dressing room and came down wearing the iron studded glove that was part of his, costume in the last act. "Any more trouble," he said, "and I shall brain each, and every one of you." The stagehands looked at Mantell, at the mailed glove, and at the bleeding man on the floor. And from then until the final curtain, the crew was as quiet as a Scottish meeting house after a call for contribu tions. Next day, the critics hailed Mantell's performance as the greatest 'Richard .since , the days of Booth." and before the r week was out ; he had ; been signed by the late Wil liam A. Brady, nder:,whos ? management he went- on to achieve' recognition as on oJE !: America's.' leadingVelassicVac' tors. .... ..." Recently, Thereas Helburn, of the Theatre. Guild offered to let : me. buy a small piece of ."As Yu Like It," starring Kathe- rine Hepburn. In all fairness, she said, "I think I ought to tell you that Katy's contract is only until June." "I'm not going to brood about that," I said. "The play is by Shakespeare, and if it gets over, I doubt whether Hollywood will see her again until both she and the scenery fall apart." THIS MAY. BE IT ! Know It Alls By Bill Johnson of a dillusion y in which the newspaper world is a romantic heaven of crusades, scoops, blaz ing headlines and great person : al" integrity. A few who come to you' will be realistic, lazy and acidly cynical, but these are destined to become star re porters or editors and none of them are very interesting. " Those who make this busi ness fun are the ones who walk in, pull up a chair and tell you -your paper isn't worth the waste in ink and effort. After a leng .thy dissertation in which the lofty ideals of such journalistic greats as Steve Wilson and Dav id Farrell are thrown in your face, this character will come .forward with a solution to all your problems. Just give him a typewriter and a few sheets of copy paper and your paper will be saved yea, even boosted to unheralded heights of journalis tic accomplishments. ' Simply telling this "genius" to beat it doesn't accomplish a thing. Experience has shown that the best procedure is to seat him at your typewriter ' . and then sit back for 10 or 15 -: minutes while he burns him , self out. Then he will rise dis gustedly, stare at you for a moment, mumble something v about some guy named Hearst, i. and stalk out of the office. It' i lakes you a . few seconds to ? realize that your -paper has ) just suffered a great loss, and Tf Isfwiih much weeping and ;gnashing of teeth that return 'to your typewriter to finish (YOur "scopp" on the recent Wednesday afternoon meeting of the Ladies Aid Society. . Genius of the above-mentioned, type is fairly rare, how ever, and it is on persons of much less ability that you must commonly depend for amuse ment. Much more abundant are those who come to you bursting with energy and enthusaism and little else. They are willing to do anything, literally anything except work. They want to dig up the big stories"sand phone 'j them in for someone else to write. It isn't that they can't write them, you understand. It I simply that they-" hate to waste I all that valuable time sitting ; around the office. This type us- ually sticks around- until'-: he ! idealizes that he's been- on the ? staff for almost a 1 week and i Ipsn't yet won a :" Pall - Mall J Award. When he does realize ;this he is usually deeply hurt and he moves on to seek fame in some other field. Your paper has suffered another, great loss a ream of copy paper, several typewriter ribbons and one of the office dictionaries which the character took with him when he left." In between these -more in teresting manifestations of the evolutionary theory will come ts a series of individuals who un derstand that all staff mem bers on the paper get paid. They want their cut of the swag even if they have to sweep floors to get it. So you tell them that you already have someone who sweeps the floor (an edi tor's got to do something) and instead of leaving, they demand some other salared . position. Finally you have to confess that only editors draw a check and that the rest of the people on the paper are utter fools who give their all for dear' olde DAILY and receive not a cent in return. About the strangest bunch you'll meet is made up of coeds who somehow have de veloped secretary complexes. They feel that the paper needs a typist and they have come to offer their services. With a ratio of seven to one between reporters and typ ewriters, the paper needs a typist like it needs a hole in the head. But with the same ratio between males and fe males on the paper's staff you try to figure some way to keep the gals around. So you don't bother to tell them that under, the present setup a re porter has to have the written permission of three deans, two South Building - secrete ries and the Graham Memorial jannitor before he can get to one of the machines. Finally the staff gaihfrrs around and offers suggestions for possi ble jobs that the gals can handle but after the third suggestion the girls always scream and run and your ratio remains the same. You'll meet others if you hang around long enough and you can really enjoy them if you remember not to take them too seriously. For instance, some guy may come in and call your paper a-"hotbed of communism" and five minutes later another will come in to label you an "instrument of proletariat sup . pression." Some will criticize you for being afraid to "do somthing" and others will tell you that you "go to far." And - so it' goes, week after week, month after month. The people and the things they have to say differ a little, as the years .roll by, but one thing remains unchanged they never lose their entertainment value. But please don't get the idea that " we want the characters to stop coming around.. The truth is, we couldn't get long without them. " (All letters sent to the Daily Tar Heel jor publication should be type-written, double-spaced, and should not exceed 500 words. The name and ad,dress of the author must be signed to the letter.) , DREW PEARSON ON lhe WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND i, WASHINGTON. President Truman attended a private birthday luncheon for Speaker Sam 'Rayburn last week at ' which he presented Sam '.with a new hat. "Sam is the only man I know," commented the President, "who could stay in Washington over 40 years and still wear the same size hat he wore when he came here. I don't know what kind of a hat this is," Truman continued,' "but I'll show you how to fix it." Showing he hadn't lost his touch as a haberasher, Truman flipped the hat into shape and planted it ceremoniously on Rayburn's head. As the guests roared, Rayburn yanked it down over his ears. The President also kidded Rayburn about his age. Vice President Barkley tells me when - he was a kid, he used to listen to Sam on the lecture platform." Truman confided. "But, in view of Barkley's known age, I'll be damned if I can understand how Sam can be just 68." First course at the luncheon in honor of a famous Texan was grapefruit, which ' caused the President to remark: "I under stand this grapefruit came from Florida." "Yes, I am sure this is Flori da grapefruit," "agreed Chief Justice Fred Vinson. "Now I know it is Florida grapefruit," declared the Presi dent, "because the Supreme Court has already handed down a decision that it's Florida grapefruit." You'll have . to wait until I prepare my dissent," differed Justice Tom Clark, a Texan. "I am going' to claim that it came from Texas." The luncheon was attended by both Demorcats and Republi cans, all close friends of the speaker. This caused Sen. Lyn don Johnson, master of cere monies, to announce it was a "bipartisan birthday luncheon." , Later he introduced Rayburn as "a man who has made his friends proud and his critics ashamed." With a voice sometimes choked with emotion, Ray . burn told how he was one of 11 children, spoke of their early troubles and struggles, boasted that seven still came home for Christmas dinner last year. "No place in the world could we have had the op America," he said. portunily we have had in Rayburn went on to say that he believed '97 or 93 per cent of the world are good people and have good in them. I have n't any room !in my heart or time in my life for hatred. I love people and I believe in them. . . .under the leadership of a plain man from the farm lands of Missouri, we have tak en the courage to lead the world for good and righteousness. I believe we will succeed." The House Small Business Committee will dish out some ACROSS I l.o:tK -standing 4. tiuiss Hiuli mountain Z. Urii-ntal dwelling 13 Klax niDduct 14. Hasten 1 1 Mulic suitable tit lUpriir 20 .-!. h siKht ot ti Clever 'ZZ. Matured 21. Heaii 2S. Skin i'i Old musical note 5f I'riik-al bird 31 l.:ir;:' stteani ::2 Vigor. 153 Palm lilies 34. Preceding nights 35. Festival 3C. Kind ot cloth ' SS. Wearies with dullness Z.K Thins: law 4t. Asiatic- count rv 41. Hurled 44. New KnKland state 4 7. Regret 48. .Large hunting doR: archaic f0. Fish e?;;s 5! L'n to the nresent X'm ? ; wk "SWF TTir ' js I 7ZT VMtyl ib , mL. 1 lllllp? j ... 'f4fa n W "p32 IflP MISFm 3iP" 37 j :;y.'i38 j I 47 ' . I H7' ' 5o . : .f?5 ; : ':" ;.- j AP Newsfeorures fANUARY i i t I i l i markets, the greatest tl ar--- ..j our, wealth, and eventually .,Jr government, or the goven.rr.. r; will be forced to intervene y. i'h some form of direct reiuiLtL-, of business. "Either choice is inimical h those who believe in the Ang l ican system of democratic $..,,.. ernment and free enterprise.; The committee will recom mend a complete overhauling of the Federal Trade Commis sion, charging that the FTC has not given adequate pro tection to little business men trying to compete with big monopolies. Perhaps more important, the Patman report will recom mend these changes in the an titrust laws: 1. A provision barring cor poration officials convicted of monopolistic practices !" :: resuming their jobs for a spec ified period after the cenvic-ti'.n. 2. A provision that the United States, as well as private in dividuals, may bring treb! -damage actions for violations of the antitrust laws. 3. A provision that fines for antitrust violations be increased from $5,000 to $50,000 on each count. Patman also will .charge that small-business men, bidding for government procurement con tracts (for defense and other purposes), are being systemati cally blackballed by red tape ami contract specifications that fav or big compaines. President Truman may not know it yet, but he is going to lose another worth-while public servant. He is Atomic Energy Commissioner Sumner Pike; the delightful man from Maine. Pike wants to go back henaa and run for the state liKsisI&iure. Those who know Pike's pixeyish sense of hum or forecast a tumultuous time for the Maine lawmakers. For more than a year, Pike carried on a vigorous letter writing campaign to collect half a year's pay as a $l-a-year man during the war. His letters were addressed to the conscientious Secretary of the Treasury Hen ry Morgenthau, not rioted for his sense of humor. Every time Morgenthau signed and announced he was ready to give up the fight with Pike, his assistants rallied round and said, "don't you dare. He would frame that 50-cent check, and hang it up in his ofTice to laugh over. And we never would get our books back in balance. How would we explain a 50-cent def icit to a congressional investi gation?" Maury Maverick, the form er Congressman and Mayor of an Antonio, Tex., is still the master of the vivid phrase. EIR EiMi I IT N iMsTgoTRTATp, i ;Ci QjilMliSlsDTRWM 1 Solution of Yestet day's Puzzle 52. Countries i3 Female sheeD 1. Poem 2. Loose W 3. Playv. ;ght 4. Hard :ck 5. Famoi.s singer ' 6. Unity 7. Ourselves 8. Kind of fisb . Sunken fence 10. Part of the mouth 11. Caress 10. Simpla IS. Stain 20. Lateral . boundane 21. Gaiters 22. Craze 23. Fasten firmly , i-' Jsuotn the raveri . The Dick 2S. Matron? Bees' homes -H. Resumption troth 37. A riser IS. Feathered animals 40. Cause to go 'I. Attempt V. Coior 1-1. .teen 11. Mnvi:i truck '. At r-i t-st.-.t r- I loir m. .unci .Vote ,f . the tcale unsavory, but important, f,; on .the alarming growth ,f -nopoly in a forthcoming ; ri to congress. The corner;! headed ' by spade-raHii f; Wright Fatman of Tex;.;. . say in part: "If monopoly continue- -J present rate, either lh corporations will control ;; . 1 S?3 O Wl.lFiT AiDjDIL E ; S HEIR eDc i T i S-i A ! V I E i Risk! aim is riJi nJS?y