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FRIDAY, MATICH ?.. If PAGE TWO THE DAILY IaR HEEL 3Tf) e Daily jj 3Tar Keel The ofT.clal newspaper of the Publication Hoard of the University of North Carolina. Chapel If ill, v.-hrre it is imur-rl daily during me' regular sessions of lh Cnivemty by the Colonial Pref, Inc.. except Mondays, examination and vacation JTiod-.. inl the summer teima. Entered, as st-cond -class matter t th post oflire of Chapel Hill. N. C, untUr trie art Ol March 3. 1879. Sub 'rlptuin prire: Sfl.Wi per ear. $3.00 per quarter. Member of The Asociated Prc. '1 he oi i.iicd lrea and AP features are .exclusively entitled to the u e i or repynnranon oi ;,u news features t ditor , Manuuirio Ld,tsr Sf'ftrfi Fdt'or NeuM f.i.for Kov Parker, Jr. Ufrk i,jfor .... . . .in liobbinq Soctrfi Editor -. ..Carollre Eruner f hitrtrnt'er Jim Mills Selecting a Cheerleader The proposal of Head Cheerleader Norman Sper to take the selection of the head, cheerleader out of the realm of politics has been greeted with almost universal approval all over the campus. Both the University and Student Parties have agreed to the plan, so neither will present candidates lor the position in the spring elections. Lack of information led several interested observers to believe that the plan would take the election away from the students. Such is not the case, however. And in every instance in which the complete details of Sper's plan were presented, the objections were withdrawn. Actually there will still be an election , of the head cheerleader, with as many students as desire the position in the race. However, none of these will be endorsed by the political parties and two will be certified by a sort of non-partisan selection board which will weigh the merits of the respective candi dates. The rest of the candidates will run independently. This "board", will be composed of five members the president of the University Club, president of the Mono gram Club, president of WAA, president of the Card Board, ;nd the retiring head cheerleader. Its function will be to interview the candidates for the position and then certify two of these for the job of head cheerleader. The selections will be made on a basis of points accrued on execution of yells, voice, new ideas, and better methods of improving squad and past performances. The main virtue of the plan seems to be that it will not necessitate the winning cheerleader being a politician in or der to be nominated for the position. This, however, does not mean that the Board's endorsees will not have to stand the test of election at the polls. Sper stated yesterday that he felt "the job should not be based strictly on vote-getting ability personality." However, lrom the impression one gets from the plan, the cheerleader .still will have to have somepull at the polls. And we think it's a good thing that he does have to be elected. The stu dents are much more likely to give the cheerleader full sup port if they have elected him than if he is appointed. For that reason it seems imperative that this non-partisan Board always present at least two candidates for head cheerleader. The students must be allowed to express their opinion as to who is best. Nevertheless it is nice that the cheerleader will no longer; have to pull deals to get a nomination. Politics has no con nection with cheer-leading. But at the same time the stu dents must be given some choice in the matter if the utmost in cooperation is to be attained. It's Hill-arious By Zone Robbins Headache Dep'l: Coach Bob Fi'tzer has requested that all tars be rtmoved from the Em erson Stadium area. He sez that there's some building to be done in that area and that "drastic action" will be taken if the cars aren't removed. O. K., but where ya gonna put 'em? Practically tvery inch of park ing space between here and Carrboro is occupied. It's Just another thorn in the tide of the committee charged with finding a solu tion to the highly-involved campus parking problem. More space will be taken away from the paxkers when the work is started on the new Commerce School, which is io be buill In the parking lot behind the "Y." Sems the only solution is a centrally located garage with several floors designed for fre use by students. Odds and Ends: Been miss:ng the happy smile of some of the leading campus personalities in recent days? Don't worry, they're still around. Look in any corner and you'll find a batch of your favorite "politi coes" discussing plans for the coming election. Speaking of elections, it's easy to foretell that the Collier's Cover Girl contest will have more people voting than any two campus ck-ctkms. A dozen roses to APO for returning to the ballot in-" stead of, the pocketbook for the runoff. "Debby," the ' prize-winning novel in the 1949 Harper's con tort Ls off the press and early reports indicate a huge success for Chapel Hill's Max Steele, author of the blue ribbon tome. Congratulations are in order for both the University and Student parties. Both political . groups have lined up unusually . good slates for the major offices thus far in the nominating "ses sions. ... Steodeni sidelights: Graham' Jones baa been Sten chasing all piblignen rtereln. DICK JENRETTE C. B. MENDEVHALL CHUCK HAUSFR . . TAYLOR VADEN Adv. Maruiqer . .Oliver Watkins Bu.. Office Af7r. Ed Williams .Vat'l Adu. Aljr. June Crockett over campus on several occas ions with a YDC subscription book in one hand and a pencil in the other, begging one and all to puleez join the junior Demmycrats. . .Banks Talley, the perennial candidate, after cries of "I do not choose to run," is back in the thick of things. . .The long-time cam pus leader is the SP candidate for secretary-treasurer of the Studen Body. . .Note to Toby Selby: With reference to your "countless number of friends," we have heard suggestions that you take off your shoes if you lose track of things on your fingers. . . Out on a limb: If the Tar Heels get to the finals in the Southern Conference basketball tourney (and we believe they will), chances are they will be pitted against State's rough and tough Wolfpack in what may well be a carbon copy of last year's finale. State has licked the Tar Heels in ten consecutive outings, but we look for the worm to turn when it counts mosts, giving UNC its first loop cage title since 1945 irr another thriller. Predickshun: Those in the know say that Choo Choo Char lie Justice will add another high award to his already-jammed trophy room this spring when time for the presentation of the Patterson Medal rolls around. The award given annually to a senior for general excellence in athletics, was won by tennis ace Vic Seixas last year. Rah Rah Dep't: The Athlet ic Dep't recently announced a revised 1950 football sched ule, and, much to the delight of those many, many tradition lovers who are peculiar to the Carolina campus, the Virginia game was moved back to the end of the card. It was impossible to mo-ve the game back to its traditional Thanksgiving Day date, but a compromise was reached shifting it to Dec. 2. by Pit cliihg Horseshoe by 6l!fy Rost In this, the last of my scholar ly squibbles about television, I'd like to discuss the fate, if any, of our 18,000 movie houses. It's my hunch that a fulsome num ber of these theatres, which represent three billion dollars worth of brick and mortar, are n't going to be selling much popcorn and pictures when there are ten million TV sets in the country and there will be five million before the year is out. It's true enough that a "Gone With The Wind" will always lure Ma and Pa to the Bijou, but great movies are few and eons between. and barring such, people fig ure to prefer punk flickers in their parlors for free to punk flickers' on Main Street for six bits. And since a falling of 25 per cent in attendance might very well be the differ ence between flourishing and foreclosure for the theatre owners, my crystal eight-ball tells me that, within the next ten years, at .least one out of every five movie houses in this country will be up to its projection booth in red ink. Is there any manageable mi-, racle in sight to save these mov into sites for kiddie carousels? I thinks there is, and if this column should happen to fall into the hands of a firecracker kid who thinks there's no busi ness like show business, I'd like fpr him to listen and listen good. The salvation of the movie cathedral, as I oracle it, will be a form of electronic hokus-pok- " us which, for the want of a better word, I'm going to call "Theatrevision," and when the atmosphere is right it will be up to the firecracker kid to walk in and button-hole the men who own the sick theatres and de liver the following spiel: "Several companies, as you know, sir, have perfected a full-sized TV screen for use in movie houses, and tests in New York. London and Paris -indicate the public will pay to look at these screens if there's something special on them. These screens run io about $25,000 each, but I've . worked out a deal with one of the companies whereby you can buy yours on time, and pay for it out of earnings. "What, you may ask, will you flash on it to bring people into your theatre? Well, mister, that's where I come in. I've leased a big playhouse on Times Square, and three months from today I can start piping onto your screen the gosh-clarnedest star-studded variety show ever' offered the public at popular prices. I am to spend $100,000 a week for talent and stagecraft, and to present a brand-new show eve ry Monday, and in exchange for somewhere between 30 and 70 per cents of your gross receipts no more than you used to pay for movies I'll feed this show into your theatre, week after week, and all you'll have to- do is throw on the switch. "In this way, youli be us ing Theatrevision to beat the threat of television because, thanks to coaxial cable, youll be offering a super-duper elec tronic program that no home receiver can grab gratis out oi the ether. . . ." If our firecracker kid has enough on the ball to stage the bust-in-the-head shows I en vision, there should be nothing to stop him from shelling out a hundred thousand a week and hauling in a million or better. How come, the lady in the back row wants to know, that I'm throwing this idea up for grabs instead of sitting on it and, at the proper time, set ring out my pail to catch some of these pennies from heav en? To the Editor A P OH Editor: I'haye always been a great admirer of the democratic principles and high ideals of U. N. C. It was with great pleasure that I witnessed these traditions in action for all to see between the hours of 11:00 and 12(00 this past Wednesday morning in the Y lobby during the recent A. P. O. fun(d)-raislng festivities. It renewed my faith in the independence of thought that I have always felt to be present at Carolina. J. H. C&noiy Typical Party Meeting. . . lllfY-if- SiV S Tri i II i t iv - i The Washington Merry WASHINGTON. The circus saints and sinners in New York took good old General Harry Vaughn over the hurdles the other day, and also included a few sideswipes at yours truly. In fact, they wrote a column, Washington Merely-Go-Wrong, by Phew Drearson." And in the spirit of good dean fun, I re produce "Phew Drearson's col-r lumn forthwith and herewith below: "It will be denied, but I have it on the best authority that there is a serious split in the White House family between President Truman and his mili tary aide, Major General Harry S. Vaughn. The cause of this cleavage is your correspondent, whose offer to apoligize to Gen eral Vaughn rocked official Washington yesterday. "From sources that I have hitherto found to be absolutely reliable, . I have learned that I offered to withdraw all I have said or written against General Lette rs To The 50 G's Editor: It has been the consensus of many writers that those who attempt to write should know something about a subject be fore they start to describe or analize it. Those who disregard this axiom can only come to grief. A case in point: Mr. Wm. Kellam's review of the latest "Sound and Fury" production, "Fifty Grand." To say that Mr. Kellam knows little about the theatre is to appoxach the ultimate in understatement. Contrary to the reviewer's wishes "Fifty Grand" was not meant to be a wheelhcrse whose primary function was to burden it au dience with five acts worth of slapstick on Carolina. In stead, as advertised, the pro duction was a "Musical Re view in Five Acts." This is not to say. however, that as a musical "Fifty Grand" was a sparkling success but the fact remains that it should have been reviewed on the basis of a musical production and not on the number of gags prorated throughout the acts. As to "over familiar" tin pan alley tunes again Mr. Kellam misses the point. "This is the Army" was not written at the. time "Over There," nor is "Ragg Mop-p" a contemporary of "Shine on Harvest Moon." De spite the reviewer comments on those old numbers, I noticed the audience responded, with candidacy is, as you all Know, J one of lhe most popular, untoers- I fy well-though cur camous -By Drew Pearson - -Vaughn if President Truman .will withdraw , all he has writ ten or said, especially said, about me. "Last night a closed meet : ing was held at Blair House. Present were Truman. Vaughn, and others of the ; .Missouri crowd. The Presi- dent, who, at the time, was ; holding three aces and a joker (George Allen) insisted, upon standing pal. Vaughn, accord ing to my informant, tried to get the President to accept to my apology, but the meeting broke up at midnight with the ' General apparently losing the decision and $42.60. "It can now be disclosed that I have held several clandestine meetings with General Vaughn, and that he has been largely successful in convincing me that no personal animosity was re flected in the President's ap parent designation of me as an S. O. B. Vaughn, who is very Editor enthusiasm. To add to the growing list of Mr. Kellam's dislikes was the problem of 1 i g h t i n g about which, I am quite sure, the re viewer knows little. I found the scene in which Miss Anderson sang "I'll Be Seeing You" quite well done. For the enlighten ment of Mr. Kellam, the' scene was a silhouette a fact which all I have talked to seem to understand. , "Last but by no means is the question of the set. I asked Mr. Kellam to do but one thing take a good look at the Y. M. C. A. building, un :. d-arubtedly the most grotesque bit of architecture on campus. ., For my money the set flat tered a hideous though use- 1 ful building. All this resolves itself into one thing every one seems to have liked the show. "Fifty Grand" was a fast, light bit of entertainment for Carolina stu ' dents it was meant to be noth ing more. Judged by strict 'dra matic principles, it is admitted ly not a top drawer musical if it were it would be on Broad way. But there remains the fact that for students entertainment ."Fifty Grand" did not deserve the unjustified and erroneous comments of reviewer Kellam. I suggest that he do one of two things study up on the theatre or write about some thing of which he haa at least some knowledge this is where I came in. ' -&t Jim Cusioirs . . . by Wharton I propose for our l-of, men on- - Go - Round familiar with the folklore, of his native, state, tells me that in Missouri the initials S. O. B. are generally accepted as meaning Sweet Old Bungler, as applied to one who, with good inten tions in his heart, " inadvertent ly does or says the wrong thing. "While I am entirely willing to accept this interpretation, I felt that I was still justified in demanding an apology from the President, in view of the fact that these initials are, .in more enlightened sections of the country, associated with words that have an entirely different connotation, reflecting upon the birth or ancestry of the desig nee. "Rigth here I want to say that I was not in th least dis turbed when the President nominated me as an S. O. B. What did hurt me deeply was that the Senate was ready to unanimously confirm the ap pointment. "I have never been sparing of of criticisim of people in public life, but I must admit, in all honestly, that 'I made a serious error of judgment in my cam paign against the General, and I Vaughn to take it all back as soon as the President removes the stigma he has stamped upon me. General Vaughn is really a man of rare personal charm who gives freely often too freely of his friendship. Naturally there are those who take advantage of him for their own purposes. I have done some checking back and, when I receive Tru man's apology, I intend to say that I have found the General blameless in every charge made against him thus far. "Take that matter of the medal from Argentina. I ac cused Vaughn of shortsighted ness, medal-mania and exces sive vanity. I now find that . he fully appreciates Argen tina's enmity towards the U. S. A., and thai in accepting the decoration he was only . trying to cut down on their stockpile of strategic metal. "His activities in the Tanforan racetracks and the . molasses deals were solely to stimulate business that was being stifled by bureaucratic red tape. His friendship for John Maragon was noble and inspiring, and we all ought to 'bear in mind that Maragon has never been pointed out as a pro-Communist. "There's been a lot of loose talk about deep freeze units, perfumes, and such. Before you become prey to whispered in nuendoes I ask you to examine yourself in the light of the scriptural injunction 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone,' During the war did you ever have to grease a sale's (See PEARSON, page 4) The Political Observer (A column about politicians you know) It's getting so you can VW..k w J A . . i davs or stroll through uranara w.u.. into a group of-furtive "student leaders," whispering air,., themselves. You guessed it; election time draws near ar,i the two campus political parties are busily engaged in nx, ing their nominations for the all-important elections com, spring. The general conversation theme in these mau little conversations is the old familiar routine of 111 vote for you if vou'll support me." But it's all in the good oki American game of politics, and, deals and all, student gov ernment always manages to turn up with a capable set oi leaders. In fact, this year's group of aspirants for office ' u;i;,r. nnrarv In the belief in seems oi aDove-averagtr duun;, j some quarters that student Leadership on campus is low ebb For a change this year there are only two parties presenting candidates, the Campus Party having dissolved. Consequent ly the political picture is much clearer. Another change is the University Party's policy of having open meetings for its nomination of officers, thereby , eliminating one of the Student Party's main talking points against the UP. SP-UP compe tition should be mighty keen this spring but right now the leaders of the two parties have enjoyed pleasant relations with one another, and there has been a lot of good-natured jesting as to the results. At the UP's first open nomi nating meeting, not three min utes after the members had voted to allow the public to enter, in paraded six of the Student Partys' strongest sup porters. Bill Mackie, John' San ders (the SP presidential-riomi-inee), Dan Bell, and Graham Jones led the SP "invasion." -They got a big round of hisses from the assembled UP'ers all good-natured booing, how ever. . . For. a change it looks like the publications field is head ing for a few hot eleciorial battles. For the last two years, the DTH editor has been Jriply-endorsed by the three, now two, parties. Ed Joyner waltzed in triply-endorsed in 1948 and Dick Jen rette was unopposed in the 1943 editorship battle. This year Chuck Hauser, UP can didate, will be opposed by the SP's Bill Kellam in a tense duel for the top DTH posi tion. . .Another highly inter esting publications battle should be the engagement be tween Zane Robbsns, UP hope, and Roy Parker, the SP standard-bearer, for the Junior seat on the Publications HORIZONTAL 1. larger part !5. woe is me 9. 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Two of Carolina's leading contestants for Collier's Cover Girl title in the Alpha Phi Omega contest are turning to other fields besides beauty con tests. . .Carolyn Bishop and Elleyn Pell are UP candidates for the Student Council and secretary of the Senior Class respectively. Student Party and University Party officials both have ex pressed favorable opinions on tics. . .His plan sets up a sort Norm Sper's proposal to take the elections of the head cheer leader out of the realm of poli of non-partisan board which will endorse certain candidates for the position which it con siders the most qualified. The student body will decide be tween these two or more "cer tified" candidates and any inde pendent candidates at the polls. So the students still will elect the cheerleader but he won't have to pull political strings to get a nomination. The SP made a good choice when it put hard-working Dick Murphey in as it chair man on the resignation of Bill Prince, who will have to be campaigning from now on in his bid for vice-president. Murphey did an excellent job as chairman of the Campus Chest Committee. . .Paul Roth, UP chairman and de bater deluxe, also deserves orchids or something for his excellent diplomacy in hand ling UP meetings. He has proved fair to all individuals iri the party nominations and has done much to promote harmony f within the party. At this stage, both UP and SP appear well-organized for the coming election. 3-4 patriotic society (abbr.) size of : ype branch of stucy threw retaliate seesaw time gone by space eagle necessitated vessel for firing pottery petulant fits of temper masculine name inert gaseous element silkworm connected succession climbing plants portico lampreys snare son of Isaac astern prefix: before fish eggs bitter vetch VERTICAL 1. prefix: wrong 2. 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