North Carolina Newspapers

PAGE TWO THE DAILY lAR HEEL f t - jrjWURSDAY FEBRUARY 2:;, vqU. 3T() e IlailyjSTar K eel Ti official nfv.-pnpcr of the Publication fJoard of th University of North riolin.i. th.-ipH Hill, where it Is issued daily during the regular sessions of tli- l.mvcisitv by the Colonist IJres. Inc., except Mondays, examination and Wjr'.irmn periods, jind the Kiiinriier terms. Entered as second-class matter at thn post fn ice of Chapel Hill. N. C under-the act of March' 3, 1879. Sub firiptiin price: 9fi M -r ear. $3 00 per quarter. Member of The Associated fJrfs. The Axfocuitcd I'ress and AP features are exclusively entitled to the tix- for republication of all news features published herein. r.dttirr Brainstorm An Open Letter To Elections Board Dear Mr. Gwynn: With the beautiful coeds "forging" ahead penny- by penny in the rat race for the title, Miss Beautiful Junior Miss, and with satisfactory results, maybe we have dis covered a NEW ,WAY OF ELECTING OUR STUDENT GOVERNMENT LEADERS AND TAR HEEL EDITOR. Take V'Noppen and Sanders and Mitchell and Prince and all other interested people's pictures and put them along hide each other with milk bottles or spitoons or some kind of container in front of the respective pictures. Then let them vote. The student body, that is. Keep the pictures and "ballot boxes" in the Y for a week or so. Then you will have settled three important problems: (1) The Budget Committee will not have to worry about the source of extra funds and the block fee raise people can go back home; (2) Since it usually rains on election day, it discourages the will and dampens the spirit of the spirit ed Carolina voters. With a week's time to vote (and with out having. to show your I.D. cards too) the Elections Board can be assured that it probably won't rain EVERY day; and (3) The people that work behind the counter in the Y will have an opportunity to get rid of the extra pennies in their cash register by changing half dollar pieces for fifty pennies and democracy will have been served. v In the days when interest in Student Government is lagging, such good-natured voting procedures would be well received by the campus and the candidates. If the Elections Board won't handle the election, the A.P.O. might. And may the prettiest man win. Yours Sincerely, Jim Rogerson Letters To The Editor: In the current money raising scheme sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega the campus can see a perfectly legitimate beauty contest distorted into a display of which campus organization can raise the most money. The rules of the contest allow for ;i lrnost nothing but vote buying, a ' principle frowned upon even in politics, which is a contest usually far less corrupt than a beauty contest. To make this contest more "democratic," dollar bills are not legal ballots. The idea is to prevent such stuffing of the ballot bottles from discouraging the penny voters. In the February 21 issue of The Daily Tar Heel Chairman Smith .iun is quoted as saying, "We want our winner to be chosen on the basis of personality, looks, and activeness in campus life and not because one organization can afford to put in more money than the others." But when a girl in one day jumps from around fourteenth or fifteenth place to fourth or fifth this can indicate nothing but the fact that stuffing the ballot bottles has taken place anyway. And this is clone by mass subscription in one of the sponsoring organ izations, with the entire money-vote collection being cast in cne day. It is hard to understand how APO was blind to the fact that this would happen when apparently they saw the danger of ballot stuffing as shown by their ridicu lous statement that dollar bills would be ignored. (Don't throw them away, boys; they will buy a lot of shoe shine polish!) Thus, with the contest on such a vote buying basis, it will not necessarily be the girl with the fullest degree of the characteristics named by Smithson who will win the contest but the girl sponsored by the or ganization with the fullest money pouch. I do not mean to say that Alpha Phi Omega is not a worthy organization; I believe that in most cases they do a real service for the campus. But in this case, however, they have deprived the campus of a democratic election of its representative to Collier's and instead have substituted a scheme whereby they wifl. further the aims of their organ ization. It was a smart move on their part. The Campus Chest made the right approach; that drive openly solicited money for charity and did not hide behind the faces of twenty beautiful girls. But APO's ballot bottles would probably end up like Mother Hubbard's cupboard if they had tried openly to solicit money for free shoe shine ser vice in the men's dorms. Everything possible should have been done to see that Carolina is represented by the prettiest, most personable, and most all-around coed. Perhaps a system whereby each X'oter would have his name checked off in the stu dent roster or his ID card punched would have been a bit more democratic. Admittedly, this would be more trouble than the penny vote method; but if APO wanted to do the campus the service of seeing our representa tive fairly chosen, perhaps out of the organization's large membership enough people could be found to wield the pencil or card puncher. But let's face it. As the contest is now being conducted, if the "I've Got an Oil Well Club" were to sponsor the local vLcna the Hyena don't think for a minute that we wouldn't be represented by this monstrosity. This is not a fair beauty contest but instead a contest of which campus organization can best subsidize shiny shoes in the men's dorms. And if the prettiest, most all-around girl does win and does become our representative to Collier's it will be just a happy coincidence. DICK JENKETTE C. B. MENDENHALL. Editor Pitching Horseshoes Billy Res At the risk of being subpoe naed by the Congress on Un American Activities, I'd like to get it 'into the record that the story of George Washington and his little hatchet is the most pernicious bit of clap-trap to be found in our school books. Look at it this way. The ob vious moral of the tale is that crime does pay as long as you are properly contrite and 'fess up on the spot. In other words, to carry this illogical premise to its logical conclusion, Lizzie Borden, who was tried for meat-axing her maw and paw, could have dispensed with her battery of expensive lawyers and waltzed out of the court room by simply declaring, "I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet." But I'm get ting ahead of myself and this column. ... Forty years ago in Ihe good old miss-meal days, I was one of ihe charter members of ihe Allen Street Angels, a loosely-knit but enterprising East Side organization devoted to the twin arts of breaking win dows and swiping hot chest nuts. Patsy Doyle, a pimply bundle of uproar, was the leader oi our frolicsome lodge, and had it been put to a vole, the teachers of P. S. .4 would have unanimously chosen him as the boy most likely io succeed in getting himself hung. One Washington's birthday, I ran into Patsy on Rivington Street. The Boss Angel was bemused, and when Patsy was bemused it could only mean he was thinking thoughts that shouldn't happen to a police de partment. '"I been tinkin' about dis cherry tree malarky, an' you wanta know what I'm tinkin'? I tink maybe I give dis gim mick a whoil." Suiting misdemeanor to-word, Patsy swiped a wrench and opened up all the fire hydrants on the block, and since it was a cold February and the re sulting freeze could be danger bus to both horse and pedestri an, this was no small offense. As the street turned into a small river, a cop bore down on Patsy who was standing near a hydrant, wrench in hand. "I can't tell no lie." said ' the young hooligan.. "I done it wif rriy little hatchet." "A wise guy. eh?" said the patrolman. "Okay, don't squeal, but ya better .beat it before yo get into trouble." Patsy's next experiment in coming clean was to dump a box of apples outside Tony Scappioli's fruit market. , As Tony ran out, screaming the Neapolitan equivalent of bloody murder, he found the Boss An gel waiting for him, munching one of the Mclntoshes. "Who done it?" "I can't tell no lie," said Pat sy. "I done it." "Sure ,and yer waitin' I should knock yer head in. Ged dadahere!" Patsy, drunk with power now. decided to give the gim mick "a real whoiL" Outside Mrs. Slotkin's grocery store there was a pile of empty egg crates waiting for the garbage truck. Patsy wedged a news paper into the heap and set a match to it, and when ihe patrolman came rushing up. he found him warming his hands ai the blaze. "I can't tell no lie. . . ." Patsy began. "Shaddep," said the cop. I hear enough outta you for one day." When I met up with Patsy a couple of days later, he was more bemused than ever. "Like " I tol' yo." he said, "dat Washington was a smart sonafagun. Wid his system, a guy could ge away wid moid ah." If O. Henry were finishing this column, Patsy Doyle would probably reiorm and then, com ing out of mass one fine .Sunday morning, would be nabbed for a crime he didn't commit. But I cannot tell a lie leastwise, not oji Washington's Birthday and I have to admit that noth ing even remotely- like that ev er happened to him. As long as I ever knew him, Patsy was never arrested, although old timers on Rivington Street tell me that some of his subsequent pranks were more felony than fun. . '- - -. .'II i -!! DUtrrbntcd by King Futm-ct Smflioat J fcy tmsioint with Tb Wuhiogton Stay For several weeks the pro posed raise in block fees has been a much mooted subject on our campus. The question asked by your Inquiring Reporter this week is, "What is your opinion of the proposed raise in block fees to $5.50 per quarter for undergraduates and $5.00 per quarter for graduates?" The fol lowing answers were taken at random and do not represent a cross-section of the student body. Barrett Richardson. 216 "B" Dorm, graduate. As .the av erage graduate student ap pears io be submerged in his . work. I don't believe ihar even now they are able io gel their $3.85 worth. To raise ihe block fee io $5.00 wouldn't work any hardship, but ii somehow seems unjust. To the Editor CO-OPERATORS Ediiorf - i Please publish a correction of three serious errors in the DTH's Tuesday story on the Victory Village Co-op. Stock was never sold, and was never offered for sale, to raise money to cover operating ex pense. Originally, stock was sold to raise money to provide a building and equipment, and merchandise for the shelves. More recently, stock has been sold to enable the co-op to re turn the investments of stu dents leaving. Chapel Hill. In late months, with the future of the Co-op in doubt, no stock has been sold and none has been redeemed. Money contrib uted to a special fund-raising committee has been kept in a seperate bank account, : and- is being returned intact. The Co-op never paid a $5 dividend to each siockhol-;; der. It paid a dividend of 5 ' on whatever sum ihe stock holder had invested and, on" occasion. . refunds io cusio- i mers based on ihe amount of z money ihey had spent at ihe store. As of the end of 149, the co op had a small surplus. If a loss , is sustained on liquidation, it will be borne by all stockholders in proportion to their 'invest ments. Some, stockholders will not be paid in full while others lose, as your story implies. Frank J. Koiike "CORPSE" COMES TO LIFE DIBRUGARH, I n d i a (JP Grave diggers had just started shoveling earth over the body of a tea estate laborer when the "corpse" gasped . and clutched feebly at the air. Hurried back to a hospital, he lived another 15 days. si 17'' f DINNER ' fclfflf ifffll' ' V I flOO-PER-PLATE 1 1 JJ. ' ' bpf ','1 : I V WAR CHEST' J V)'- f& The Uninvited Guest r - t. it i Mini 1 . ti ; ' ( ' i YOU W NOT WANT TO Jj H'l iil'.'h U f . 'B M WAS TO CELEBRATE OM? Wt J.Vlb uU 1 I.: Inquiring Reporter Concerning Block By John A. Sullivan Pat Bowie, 315 Mclver, un dergraduate. A raise in fees would benefit certain organiza tions on campus which under the present system receive in adequate amounts for a sustain ing program, for example Stu dent Entertainment Committee,. I do not believe, considering the raise in tuition, that the pro posed raise should be extended over $.50. The proposed raise would assure students the same benefits .. they have received .this year, due to a leveling off of student population since the '""Immediate post-war ' period, "j ,( Kimsey King, Box 896, un dergraduate. I am in favor of the raise with a proviso that a larger portion of the block fee be allocated to campus-wide student dances and a larger Student Entertainment Series. Tom Mathews, Memorial Hall, undergraduate. I am in favor of ihe raise because each student on the campus HORIZONTAL 1. variety of lettuce 4. trite 9. 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Ed Shaw. 108 "B" Dorm. . graduate. If what Billy Car michael .said regarding in creased costs and decreasing enrollment is true, then the demand for a higher block fee is justified. . Bill Kellam, Chapel Hill, un dergraduate. I approve of a raise to $5.50 because the future decreased enrQllmerjt will .make . it necessary, if worthwhile stu- dent organizations are to be kept at their present qualitative level. However, much econo mizing can be accomplished within certain existing organi zations. In fact, Tarnation might even be economized out of existence if worst came to worst, or would that be worst coming ' to best? VERTICAL lvwagon 2. 'oil:comb form 3. vast plains 4. strict 5. symbol for tantalum 6. 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' ' Nevertheless, after the Jack- J son-JefTerson Day Dinner, some one began considering the grue some question as to what would have happened if an enemy had sent a surprise plane over the Artie Circle on February 16 and dropped an A-Bomb on Wash ington. Not only were ihe Presi dent and Vice President un der ihe same roof, but also every member of ihe Cabinet, ihe Democratic Governors of 10 states and a good part of . ihe Senate and House of Rep resentatives. The Speaker was also present, and if such '.a catastrophe had occurred, ii would have been up io a Speaker Pro-Tern io convene ihe House, : while Senator 5 , McKellar would have had the power io convene ihe Senate. Whether Congress would have then called for special elections, or whether ihe Re- -publicans would have taken over ihe administration is a debatable question. Undoubtedly, however, the Republicans would have had to take over for the time being, since few Democratic leaders would have been left, and since three to six months would have been recessary to make nomi nations and conduct the final balloting. There would also be the ques- tion of who would declare war with part of Congress gone,, and who would make the' vital decisions necessary to carry oh, a war. " ' .. - These are just a few of the 'problems which aren't pleasant to think about but which have to be considered in view of the now definite fact that Russia has all our atomic secrets , : This is also why the admini stration, after inexcusably long delays, is finally and almost frantically working on Civil De fense, including an alternate capital of the United States. For, should a bomb be dropped on Washington, it would mean the destruction of all FBI finger prints, all Civil Service Records, all Veterans Insurance' and Pension Records, all military defense plans, Income-Tax Rec ords, the Library of . Congress and the Government Archives dating back to the beginning of the republic. In fact, there is some . doubt whether the Government could function at all immediately af ter the destruction of these rec ords.. A period of chaos would be certain, military planners fear, unless careful plans are made now for an alternate capi tal, with microfilmed records stored there. '' Speculation is that an alter-. naie capital would be safest somewhere in ihe Rocky Mountains, possibly Denver or Salt Lake City. Federal Judge Richmond Keech, ihe man who has been slapping John L. Lewis with those back-to-work court' or ders, was teethed on law en forcement. His father was a District of Columbia police man. ' However, the 53-year-old jurist is not a chronic "craek downer," but a quite, amiable man with a homespun air thai belies black robes. He . also has a tremendous liking for people, particularly little people a characteristic de- veloped in" ihe days when he used io fight consumers' bai, ties against the public- uiili ties as people's counsel of ihe District. I , Later Keech became a mem ber of the public futilities com mission and served or a . time as corporation counsel of ihe D. C. Government before Presi dent Truman recognized, his tal ents and made him a White House administrative , assistant. His automobile also is. easily recognizable. For years' Judge Keech's tag, has been "16." A Bachelor, lookng younger than DREV; PEARSON VI his - years, Keech would be a big success in the Washing social whirl, but he shun it. His only concession to . -hi?h society" is an occasional ride I with a hunt "club in ftiur hy Maryland. ' "My riding equipment is crn siderably less than a- stable," ;he explains, with a modest Krin. "AH I've got is a barn with one "horse in it on 100 acres of Lnd in Maryland. Someday I am j-o- f ing to build a house there and 4 retire.' h ': y Dictator Franco's friend, Son. I Pat McCarran of Nevada, has I been using Dictator Franco's r methods inside the Senate Ju- diciary Committee. In order to smear the Dis- t placed Persons Commission, McCarran held secret hearings 1 without notifying other com- j miiiee members. Ii was a vir- f rual star-chamber proceeding. On ihe other hand, he refused io grant the displaced persons commission a hearing io de fend itself. He; also railroaded his own displaced persons bill through the committee, allowing only 15 minutes for the Committee to consider a . substitute. . And as Committee - Chairman,, McCar ran made his staff Director. Richard Arens, more powerful than the senators who belong to the committee. The situation has become so bad that the Senators and Congressmen, who are forced to deal with Arens. have nicknamed him "super senator." McCarran also fired another staff member, Coleman Rosen- I berger, whom the Senator from t Nevada suspected of being loyal to another Senator. But worst of all, McCarran has . hidden out a Pro-Nazi on 4 his staff. This man is Otto Dc , kom, who was kicked out of S the Army Signal Corps in 1942 I for being Pro-Nazi. He was al so fired from the Pennsylvania 1 Central Airlines, in 1944 for the j same reason. After the. war, he was turned down as an investi- I gator for the -ouse Un-American Activities Committee upon the recommendation of the Army.' But in. spite of all this, McCarran hired Otto Dekom . and assigned him to. a trusted i job in the Judiciary Committee. ! . . Again applying ihe tactics of Dictator Franco, McCarran tries to handpick new com- ' miiiee members. While he j was visiting Dictator Franco in; Spain last summer.. Sena tor Kefauver of Tennessee was assinged to McCarran's i Judiciary Committee, and. I when he returned, the gentle- ! man from Nevada hit ihe ceil ing. "How did . Kefauver get on this ' Committee?" McCarran stormed. "I don't want him." However, Keafuver is still on ' the Committee. ' Minnesota's lively Sen. Hu- ; .bert Humphrey bumped up ; against the Iron Curtain the ; other day in trying to save the life of a Czech Democrat. His ! experience gives an insight in- i to ( the . double-dealing of Iron Curtain diplomats. The man marked for death was Karol -Folta, whose only crime was heading the Slovak Democratic Party. Since the Communist regime takes an un friendly view toward all but the Communist Party, Folta was branded as "a spy for the United States" and sentenced to death following a secret trial. - The tragic news reached the condemned man's three brothers, who left Czechoslovakia Ion;? ago and now live in Minneap olis. Urgently they appealed to Senator Humphrey to see whether anything could be done. -' - . Because there was no time . io 'lose'. Humphrey bypassed Ihe Stale Department and made a personal appeal io the Czech Ambassador, Dr. Vladi mir Ouiraia. r "The United States of America-and the Republic of Czech oslovakia are at peace," pleaded the Senator from Minnesota. "It is . inconceivable that one could receive a. death senterrje 1 for the alleged conveyance of ; formation" for the - United States or. any other country with 1 whom Czechoslovakia is at , peace." But Ambassador Outrata ' wrote back sadly: "the penalty ; was carried out before your . letter. arrived. .. .