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PACE TWO THE DAILY 1 AR HEEL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 19f,.l - ! I ST() e IDailyJSTar Keel The official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it Is issued dailv during the regular sessions of U.e University by the Colonial I'ress. Inc.. except Mondays, examination and vacation periods, and the Rummer terms. Entered as second-class matter at the post oHice of Chapel Hill. N. C, under the act of March 3. 1879. Sub urifi'.vm price: 13 0') per year. $3.00 per quarter. Member of The Associated I'ress. The Associated Prei ana AP leatures are exclusively entitled to the u-e for republication of all news features published herein. f.iiitur liuiinein M winger M'i (kki m; KrfHor SiiiitIi h.dilirr tu'wx y.Uitur ..... li-,k. f.dnor Nocefi Editor . i'hnto)rtirhir . ... Rov Parker. Jr. Zane Robbins ...Caroline liruner Jim Mills f:tonu( .SMI: Jack Brown, Bill Kellam. Mike McDaniel. Tom Wharton. C harlie Gibson. Joe Scykora, Veftal Taylor, Al Johnson, Charlie Joyner. Dave Snarpe, John Stump. ' i7aVf"iRoll Nfill. Don Mavnard. Glenn Harden. Bill Johnson, Wuff .Newell, Sam McKerl. Mark Sumner, Art Xanthos, Graham Jones, Charlie , Brewer, Ginnv Jones, M. K. Jones. fasmesiTii'iaij: Nes.l Cadie'u. Don Stanford Bootsv Taylor. Bill Erain, Ruth Di-rinis. Mjtie Withers. Randy Shiver. Charles Ashworth, Mary Tomlin. Dick Maeill. Jim BinrJIev. Branson Hobbs, John Poindexter, Carolyn Harrill. Lila Itotinson. Beverly Scrr, Bruce Bauer, Joe Nelson. Leonard Rawls. S'liftrt3 SiTtlf. Larry Fox Frank Allbton. Jr., Joe Cherry. Lew Chapman, Andy Tavlor, Art Greenbaum, EHI Roberts, Ronald Tilley, Bill Peacock. Ken Barton. Sot let if Sta fl : Potjgy Wood, Marie Withers, Betty Ann Yowell, Judy Sanford, Margie Story. Parking Lot Needed One Daily Tar Heel "Letter to the Editor" writer last week suggested that the DTH could bring much greater benefit to the students by devoting its editorials toward pro viding more parking space on campus rather than blasting the campus policeman. Assuredly, however, if a DTH edi torial would produce more parking space, then we would make the campus parking problem a daily installment. The shortage of parking space continues to bo one of the major problems on campus, however, and perhaps the polit ical parties will see fit to include suggested measures to remedy the problem in their platform this spring. The Uni versity Safety Committee has been unable to reach a solution despite lengthy consideration, and none appears in sight out side of constructing a new parking lot. This latter suggestion of bulding a new lot should be given serious consideration by University officials. Not only would a new lot be of benefit to students all year long but it also is an absolute necessity when 40,000 fans descend by car on the Hill for football games in the fall. The woods beside the Bell Tower have Bell Tower Deen suggested. as the most logical place for - .the lot. As it stands now, some 40 or 50 stu- dents park their cars along the narrow wind Fill Needs ing road in that area now. As long as students are going to park there, there really is no valid reason why this Bell Tower locale could not be used, enough trees could be left; or more shrubbery could be planted so that the parking lot would not detract from. the beauty of the campus. It has also been suggested that the area behind Venable Hall could be leveled off and turned into a perfect parking lot. As it stands now, this site, between Venable and the Naval Armory, is occupied by messy underbrush. This ven ture would no doube prove more costly than the suggested Bell Tower enterprise. The University is a fast-growing institution, but actually the total amount of parking space on campus has diminished. It's about time some positive action such as constructing a new lot were taken. It's Hill-arious - By Zone Robbins Seems that Prez Truman and the Democratic bigwigs are ready to give Gordon Gray, University president elect, ev rrything but the While House to keep him in Washington. Latest reports say that HST is using the lucrative Atomic Energy Committee chairman ship as bait to hold the present Army Secretary in the Capital City. However, in an Associated Tress report released Monday, Grrfy said that he considers him self "the new president of the University. . .," adding that he plans to take on no new work except the UNC presidency. Tarnation number three hit the campus Tuesday, and was greeted by the usual batch of moans and gripes. But this . time the students' attitude wasn't completely tinted in black. There were words of praise for Editor Tom Kerr's burlesque of the Kinsey Re port, for the snappy new full color cover, for Dave Sharpe's Valentine pome, and for one joke. There's a story making the rounds these days concerning the father of Deborah Kerr, one of Tinsel Town's most promising new starlets. The elder Kerr, it seems, is a plumber, and outside his place of bizness is the sign, "Honest Kerr Used John Dealers." Staggered by the departure of a host of top-ranking ends, including All-Americas Art Weiner and Kenny Powell, and his entire blocking back corps, Carl Snavely opened Winter drills earlier this month with an air of suspense overhanging the camp. . The big question on every body's lips was, "How will he fill those important gaps before next season?" King Carl soon dispelled all fears, however, as DICK JEN'RETTE C. B. MENDENHALL CHUCK HAUSF.R' TAYLOR VADEN Ailv. Manager Oliver Watkins Bu. Office Mcr. Ed "Williams Nat'l Adv. 2igr. ...... June Crockett he eliminated the need for a blocking back by ditching- the conventional single wing and adapting his offense to the backfield material on hand. The end problem was solved by shifting speedy Bill Albans and C. C. White, a pair of free wheeling backs to the offensive end positions. And now the . world seems rosy again for the Grey Fox and his Tar Heel footballers, who many are predicting will out shine last year Cotton Bowl aggregation. . , A dozen of the best roses in town go to Allison Pell and Muriel Fisher, co-social chair man of the Senior Class, for their fine work in bringing roly poly Tony Pastor and his band to "The Hill." And we'll betcha right now that the Pastor crew gives a . concert to rival that presented by Freddy Martin, who, we be lieve, put on the best music show of the year. Speaking of music, Johnny Long's band is a good bet to play one of the remaining dances on this year's slate. The Newell (N. C.) native is one of the few top names ba'nds that has never played a dance on this campus, and there is a strong move afoot to bring the ex-Dookman and his crew here before the year is out. . Long, by the way, recently recorded, another Orville Cam-bell-Hank Beebe toon. It's called "I Never Found Out About Love," and critics say it has a chance to become" one of the top novelty ditties of the year. It looks like the world's greatest bargain is about to pass out of existence. The penny postcard, which sur vived two wars, inflation, the worst depression in history, and various other world-shak ing events, is on its way out. Failing Carolina? By Harry Snook (Ed. Note: This is the second of two columns designed to stimulate discussion on student government at Carolina. The opinions are not necessarily those of the Daily Tar Heel.) Inconsistancies in the Caro lina Way of Life must be elimi nated as further proof that UNC's sideals are practicable. The first of this series of articles listed the honor system and the block fees structure as exam ples of useless and probably harmless practices that need the attention of an alert student body. Here are more: The University places great emphasis on the value of in tegrity and moral consciousness. Yet North Carolina's ex-servicemen are being over-charged for tuition. UNC accepts the maximum allowance by the Veterans Administration under the G. I. Bill for veterans, even though the allowance is far more that the normal tuition rate. It is true that all U. S. universities .do the same, but this is no excuse for Carolina to passively join the , parade of welfare-state benefit-seekers. Another deplorable practice stems from South Building in the form of an emphasis on faculty research rather than on teaching. To be sure, re search is vital and must be continued, but not at the sacrifice of our state educa tional facilities. It would be well for the Administration to remember that state tax monies support the Universi ty primarily for, the education of North Carolina's young people. Until courses of study have been set up in such a way that students may han dle them with a minimum of instruction. our professors should concentrate upon leaching as their first obliga tion. The University of North Caro lina formally endorsed the NCAA Sanity Code and, to keep faith in the Carolina tradition, must observe both letter and spirit all of the provisions. Does UNC wink at some provisions of the Code? This could be an other instance where signing a pledge has small effect on ac tual deeds. The majority of students and most faculty members seem to believe that Carolina's com pulsory class ' attendance policy is a poor approach to raising the general academic level. And the University does seem more intent upon setting attendance records than upon real academ ic achievement. A "C" student can pass a course if he meets the attendance requirements;' but an "A" student is atomatic ally given a failing grade when he falls below a prescribed number of appearances in class. This bears out the contention that attendance takes prece dence over learning. Most of us were greatly im pressed by Student Government when we arrived at Carolina, and most of us, within a few months, lost our interest in it. Perhaps this explains why our Student Government is still on , ly a puppet organization having little real power. No serious harm would come from this situation except that too many students leave Carolina think ing the system to be truly i representative self-government. Too many Student Government enthusiasts lose the ability to recognize a form of government that is actually "of" and "by" the people. And these students, as, citizens, have little chance of preserving our democracy against ideological encroach ment. Only a few of many in consistencies in the . Carolina Way of Life have been men tioned. Yet the total effect of these inconsistencies upon the average student is probably more profund than the basic ideals of our school. Though Carolina is founded upon un- impeacable principles, these are too often distorted in prac tice. UNC is not unique in this respect many other uni versities find it difficult to prac tice what they would teach. Carolina's deeds must match her ideals and, happily, Caro lina offers her faculty and stu dents the opportunity for im proving conditions. With thought and industry we can make what we believe to be the best school into an even better one! yM mCU PROFIT IN WKnWS ' St : STAMP BUYING.. MS yhXf fJsi -jmBE the whole llraife ym Y POST OFFICE JM KvKI Mk1 -l SHOULD GET rM Distributed by Klnsr Feature. Syndicate ty arrangement with Th Waihington ur Veterans Back a few years ago 11,000, 000 Americans put on uniforms of one sort or another and went off to fight a war. It took them a while to win the thing but most of them felt that the time and effort had been worth it. After all, they were fighting for their own homes, their own families and their own coun-' try. They liked this stuff we called democracy and couldn't quite see letting a bunch of other people come over here and tell them how to live and where to live and, sometimes, . even whether to live. Anyhow they won the war and when they came back home everybody was mighty proud of them. To tell the truth, most of them were pretty proud of themselves. So they put those little yel low things in their lapels, called themselves veterans, and sat back while everybody bowed and scraped and piled tokens of appreciation at their feet. First there was that discharge bonus $300 in three monthly payments. Then came the un used leave bond that added from $100 do $500 more to the veteran's bank roll. Most of the individuals states and even a few of the large cities got into the act by dealing out bonuses that ran up into the thousands in some cases. We don't want to forget that thing called "veterans priority" either. It doesn't mean so much now, but back when a lot of things were real scarce it helped a lot toward getting jobs and houses and things like that. If the vet didn't want a job he could drop by an employment agency once a week and pick up $20. It was quite a racket, too, until most of the "52-20" boys got tired of the agency always trying to get jobs for them and took their names off the rolls. The G. I. loans fell in with the other gifts and plenty of vets rushed out . to buy homes, start businesses ad buy farm equipment with Uncle Sam standing by o back them up if -the going got rough. On-the-job training, was, and still is one of the sweetest rackets that the vet-pleasers , dreamed up. The object was to assure the veter an of an executive's salary while he was learning to earn an office boy's wage. An em ployer could hire an experi enced man, pay him a token salary, and let the government do the rest. Or a farmer's son could go back to the farm on which he had worked all his life and knock down more cash that his old man had ever made by simply telling the V.' A. that he was learning to "hoe taters" or' "slop the hawgs." " Through it all, the G. I. Bill that sent the vets back to school has been the shining light that gave the veteran something for something instead of something Collectors Items IF THERE'S SO Time To Wake Up' .. 7 .". - Bonus - Government By Bill Johnson for nothing. Still it is just an other gift that no one had to give the vet unless they , wanted to just one of the things that too many vets quickly came to expect as his just due. Some students . even got to joking about the number of books and pencils and reams of paper they could get and pass out to their non-veterans friends without it . costing them more than a sig nature. There are plenty of other benefits too. Pensions to the wounded, free hospital care. $1 a day for each day that a vet spent in an enemy prison camp and many other ser vices of the Veterans Admini startion. All these without mentioning National Service Life Insurance which, in spite of what some say, is still one of the best deals anyone ever had. iThen comes our most recent handout the sizable refund on insurance which promises to add a few hundred more bucks , to veteran's bank accounts. Per haps, this shouldn't be consid ered a handout since the vets will be getting their own mon ey back, but the ..government could have done something else with that money if it had wanted to don't fool yourseit about that. So when you look back on the past few years" you have to admit that the veteran has been a pretty fortunate guy. The gov ernrnent and the people he fought for have- repaid him as no other nation has ever done. Most of the vets realize this and are honestly grateful. They asked only for assistance is re establishing themselves in ci vilian life and ' they feel that such assistance has been grant ed in a most generous manner. .Unfortunately, there is an other group the professional 'veferan the young man who returned from the war con vinced that the American people owed him a living ihdi young man has, in the lasjt few years, convinced a large segment of the popula . tiop thai all . veterans are ". enHrely self -centered, incon- siderate of their nation's wel fare and interested only in capitalizing on their service to 'their country. W.hy these characters feel that they rate this prolonged, executives must take a six care is difficult to imagin2. months vacation, with pay, upon Maybe they're a bunch of kids reaching age 50. But . Joyce who are afraid of facing life waSn't just being a good guy. He without the increasingly pater- thinks his plan will . more than nal.hand of Uncle Sam to pav for itself. ' ' " smooth the bumps for them. Or "Men who have been working maybe they're just too stupid at top speed for -years; need to to realize that their unceasing forget business, step back and demands are cutting their 'own look at themselves and take throats, and that in the years stock of the world in general," to come they - themselves will Joyce explained. "I believe that have to refill the treasury that a six months vacation will fit they are now intent on draining, these top flight men for many Not all. the blame should be more years of service." put on the vets though. Un- After making this statement, scrupulous and irresponsible Joyce boarded a ship with' his politicians come in for their family for a six months vacation share of condemnation. Much of in Hawaii. Yes, he was the first the legislation thus fan enacted to reach the age limit. in the vet's behalf was a direct appeal for the veteran vote. With congressional elections coming up again this year, the legislators are again screaming for bigger and better handout . for the vet. A few have mus tered the intestinal fortitude to risk losing the vet vote by do ing what they, think is in the best interest of the country, but their campaigns haven't been helped any by the pressure brought to bear on them by the American Legion, the VFW and other such organizations. Now that a few of the poli ' ticos are beginning to see the disastrous fruits of their fan cy, they're finding A that it's too late to back out. This small portion of the vet popu lation makes such a big noise thai the honest vets can't be heard. The fact that the vast majority of veterans neither ask for nor want additional benefits is seemingly unim portant. Their voices aren't heard, so they can't be con sidered. So the time has come for the intelligent, thoughtful members of the veteran population to make a little noise. a noise loud enough to convince tb.2 lawmakers that all veterans oifJi-iiu nui uc juugeu uy ciuuuiis of a loud-mouthed minority. There are still hundreds of vet erans on this campus enough to at least convince a few peo ple that most vets don't have to be coaxed and pampered into doing what is right. .Unless someone starts the ball rolling, this nation and its future elec tions may be governed by sel fishness, ' bigotry and corruption, inspired by the very men who claim and perhaps rightly so to have saved the day. - It is time, then, that more and and more thoughtful veterans, matured to responsible citizen ship, should face the issue squarely to say, "We have been many times repaid; we've had enough." Such would be fitting and right. . SIX-MONTH VACATIONS ORDERED , PASADENA, Calif. ;p) Wil iiam Joyce, Jr., president,, of a shoe manufacturing firm,; ' "re-"! ceived no complaints after he announced a new rule for com pany executives. The rule: All A - A ml .-r; i i V i WASHINGTON. At his weekly Cabinet luncheon, short ly after news of the London atom-secrets leak. President . Truman told his" official family that he had never been so alarmed over the International situation. . Not only was he alarmed re garding leaks to Russia, he said, but it now appeared that Rus sian War production had ad vanced much further than our Intelligence information , had any previous idea of. All this has resulted in a decision by the President and the Secretary of State to write a new blueprint of foreign policy. This will include a re vision of the American de fense problem based on the assumption that Russia now possesses all our atomic and hydrogen secrets and will probably result in upping the budget. Meanwhile, here is an over all picture of what the U. S. A. Jaces on the two most import ant but widely separated fronts of the cold war. "' . 1. EASTERN EUROPE De velopments here are highly en couraging. They are so encou raging that President Truman's long face may not be entirely justified. IN BULGARIA, long consid ered a Soviet stronghold, un rest is so rampant that civil war . prevails outside the big cities. It began when farmers staged a sit-down against Communist - demands, refused to plant grain and concealed their quotas sup posed to be turned over to the government. When troops moved in to seize the grain, they were met by gunfire, with the result that hundreds of peasants have fled through heavy snow to the mountains or to Turkey, and police have burned down sev eral villages to catch guerrillas. Two Bulgarian soldiers, recent ly fleeing to Turkey, reported: "Living conditions are be yond endurance. The Russian officers training the Army treat us like enemies. Hun dreds of soldiers are plotting to escape. When the weather gets betier, there will be many Bulgarian Soldiers sur rendering to you." ' IN ALBANIA, Communist forces are having such difficul ty that a pro-Western revolt appears certain. 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In fact, they have already built up the Saseno Islands in the Adriatic as a powerful sub marine base, now harboring the Italian warships given Russia under the Peace Treaty. ALONG THE Hungarian-Yugoslav border the situation re mains tense with the Red Army turning powerful flood-lights ( n Yugoslav defense positions ev ery few days in the war .f . nerves. Twice Hungarian-Russian patrols have crossed into Yugoslav territory and beers captured. They were permitted to return across the line after an operation producing sterility. Because of desertions to Tur key and Yugoslavia, informa tion from the southestern satel lites is fairly accurate and .so discouraging to the Communist cause that this may be one rea son why Moscow is concentra- ing on the Orient. 2. THE FAR EAST Here it looks as if the United States was in for bigger and worse headaches. Here the brazen imperialism of Great Britain, France and the Dutch, prac ticed for more than a century, provides the most fertile pos sible field for Communism, and Moscow is making the most of it. And unfortunaie , ly, the United Slates, which had a good anti-imperialistic record in the Phillippines, is now tied by alliances to the imperialistic policies of our allies. Our support of the Brit ish in Hong Kong, of French mismanagement in. Indo-Chi-na, of Dutch stupidity in In donesia, plays directly into the hands of the Communists. ACHESON'S DECISION All this was why Secretary Ache son held an important staff meeting last week at which it was decided to make an all-out stand against the southward march of Communism. French Indo-China was se lected as the battlefield. If the Russians get below Indo-China, it was decided the rest of Asia will fall Burma, Siam, the Ma lays, Ceylon, India, probably In donesia. 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