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A New Editor and President
By the time this editorial appears in Wednesday's Daily
Tar Heel, a new editor of the paper and president of the stu
dent body will have been elected. As this story is being'
written, there is not a single person in the DTH office whjo
will hazard a fjuess as to who will be the victors in the Tues
day voting. Don VanNoppen and Chuck Hauser led in the
primary voting last week, but John Sanders and Graham
Jones were rated an excellent chance to pull in most of the
VQt.cs cast for candidates who were eliminated from these two
races last week. Fortunately, however, no one seems grievr
ously upset over the outcome, because all th four men who
were seeking the two top positions on campus yesterday are
good candidates, experienced in student government and
interested in increased benefit to the students they repre
sent. The campus can be considered in capable hands no
.matter who is elected.
A lot of ill-feelings have been generated in the past few
weeks preceding the two voting days. The 1950 political
campaign started slowly, then broke wide open, and now
seems to have settled down to a peaceful finish. It is for
tunate indeed that the campaigning is closing on a friendly
note, for the all-out cooperation of all the candidates for
office whether elected ,or defeated is needed to carry on
the necessary functions of student government and publi
cations. Bill Mackie, retiring president of the student body, has
done an excellent job in his year term in office, and the DTH
would like to take this opportunity to thank him for the
work. He has made a good representative of the student
body and his administration has been marked by accomplish
ments. His successqr will have a big pair of shoes to fill.
Bill Mackie deserves a pat on the back from the entire stu
dent body for doing a hard job well and at the same time
receiving less than his rightful share of praise for the work.
About the Outdoor Pool
Around about this time every year, most Carolina stu
dents becin to think about weekend excursions down tn thp
beach or a party .out at Hcgan's Lake. And some of those
who don't have sleek convertibles to visit these fabulous
places just get a hankering to get out in nature for a swim
or sun bath. That brings to mind thoughts of the Univer
sity's beautiful outdoor swimming pool in back of Woollen
Gymnasium, wheh always looks like a great place to spend
a sunny afternoon but which is never open.
Many students have already directed questions at the
DTH as to why this pool is not opened sometime during the
spring quarter. In the past the University has waited until
summer school to open the pool. The answer, of course, is
that it would not be advisable to open the pool early during
spring, because swimming on a cold day probably would fill
the Infirmary in a day with students suffering from head
colds, contracted while swimming.
However, it does seem that the pool could be opened for
perhaps the last two or three weeks of school this quarter.
Most Carolina students have never even had an opportunity
to swim in it. And as long as students are going to head off
to the beach on the weekends or go swimming at other
nearby lakes, then the University might just as well open
its outdoor pool.
Carolina's indoor pool is as nice as anyone could ask for.
But when warm sunny days come around, most folks like to
do their swimming out in the open air. So before too much
more time elapses this quarter, let's have some consideration
given to opening the outdoor pool.
Congratulations, Debate Council
Congratulations are in order to the Carolina Debate Coun
cil for the excellent job it has done this year. Debating, an
activity on campus which has been suffering from an acute
case of lack of publicity in recent years, nevertheless has
continued to prosper at the University. The debate team
this year has compiled an outstanding record in competition
with debate clubs all over the nation. The local team ranks
among the top ten debating teams in the country.
Dave Pittman has served as President of the Debate Coun
cil this year, and has done an excellent job. The entire
debate team has reflected credit, on the University, partici
pating in debates 'from Boston to Miami, Fla., to Iowa. It
has debated against some of the best teams in then nation.
Paul Roth, Bob Evans, Herb Mitchell, and Jlerschel Keen
er have been the top debaters for Carolina all year, and they
deserve a lot of credit. It's no easy job to prepare a debate,
jid the team members have put in many hours of training.
The team has also labored under the handicap of not haying
a iullrtime coach. The success oi the debating team belongs
to the students that have participated. They have been al
most entirely "on their own" this year.
Any student on campus wishing to be on the debate team
is welcome to try out for the squad. Tryout periods are held
regularly each quarter and the next period will be announced
in the DJH. The training one receives from debating will
l c beneficial for a life time.. It is certainly unfortunate that
more students are not taking advantage of the opportunity
at hand to improve themselves in the all-important art qf
elf-expression,
purrimned Herein.
DICK J KKRETTE
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A'lv. Mnnngor Oliver Watkim
Hux. 0ice Mgr. Ed Williams
Unl'l. Adv. JVfcr June Crockett
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Cilly Rest
We men of Manhattan are an
undaunted and unhaunted lot
or at least think we. are and
so ghost stories seldom stand
a ghost of a chance in this town.
The other night, however, a
real estate man buttonholed me
coming out of "21" and told me
a chiller about a deserted house
in the Flushing section of
Queens, and on the off-chance
that you scalp can use a tingle
or two, I'd like to pass it
along ....
.On the night of the big snow
three winters ago, a doctor in
Queens answered his doorbell
and found a smallish man in a
faded maeknaw standing on the
stoop.
'My wife is very sick," he
said. "I hate to ask you to come
out on a night like this, but
it's only a few blocks."
The doctor followed him io ,
' a large house near the inter
section of Vine Street and
Broadway, and when the man
unlocked the door the physi
cian could see by the glare of
an unshaded dxoplight that
the Lower floor was empty ex
cept for a few kitchen chairs
' and a length of carpet.
"This is no place for a sick
woman," he said. "You ought
to have some heat in the house."
The man led him up a creaky
set of stairs, to the second floor,
and in the front room an ema
ciated woman waSj lying in an
old four-poster bed. She kept
coughing into a blood-flecked
handkerchief, and though the
doctor went through the mo
tions of an' examination he
knew at once it was an ad
vanced case of tuberculosis.
"I can give her something to
relieve the congestion," he told
her husband, "but she'll have to
be m6ved to a hospital first
thing in the morning."
He wrote out a prescription.
"I'll get it filled right away,"
said the man, and showed the
doctor to the door.
Next morning,- wondering
how the woman was getting
along, the physician stopped by
the wooden house, but there
was no answer when he rang
the bell. Moreover, there were
no tracks in the snow to indi
cate that an 'ambulance or any
other vehicle had pulled up in
front of the place.
Puzzled, he went to the office
of a real estate agent on the
next street and asked if he
could get information about the
residents of the house,
"That's a funny sort of ques
tion," said the agent. "There
aren't any residents and there
aren't likely to be any. The
house hasn't been occupied for
5 years, and though it's al
ways been on my list, nobody's
ever wanted it."
"Do you think squatters might
be living in it on account of the
housing shortage?" asked the
doctor.
"Could be, but I doubt it,"
said the agent. "There's been a
lot of queer talk about that
house and the last family that
moved in during the depression
could only stand it for a few
weeks. The husband and wife
slept in the front room on the
second floor, and to hear them
tell it they were kept awake
night after night by the sound
of a woman coughing. It finally
got so band they packed and
left."
" "I know it sounds absurd."
said the doctor, "but I ex
amined a sick woman . there
last niahl, and if you've got
a key IH walk over with you
and prove it."
When they got to the houle.
it took the agent quite a while
to get the rusty lock open,
and when they entered there
wasn't a iick of furniture in
sight. "I could have sworn I
saw chairs and a carpet down
here last night, said the doc
tor. "Maybe you've got this house
mixed up with another one,"
the agen suggested.
"I still think it's the same
place. Let's look upstairs."
On the second floor they went
into the front room. It was also
empty, that is, except for a
pieceof paper on the window
sill the prescription the doctor
had written the night before.
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The Order of the Holy Grail
bases its way of life and its rit
ual upon the legend of the
Chajice or Cup from which
Christ drank at the Last Sup
per. This Cup is the Grail, and
it is said to have come into the
possession of Joseph of Arima
lhea,the man w,ho according to
the Gospels buried Christ, and
who caught in the Grail some
of the precious blood of the
Savior.
Legend has it that this
Joseph was persecuted and
fled Palestine, and that, mi
raculously preserved by the
power of tAe GraiL he event
ually made his way to Eng
Frankly
Weather Of The State
By Frank Allston, Jr.
It's spring again and all over
the campus there are the usual
signs of the season.
One need only to take a walk
along one of the many campus
paths to notice the beauty of
the campus and appreciate ful
ly the meaning of Chapel Hill's
name, "The Garden Spot of the
South." The flowers are bloom
ing in every section of the cam
pus, in the Arboretum, in. the.
areas between class room build
ings, outside dormitory win
dows, in fact, in just about eve
ry spot where there is room
enough.
The young ladies of the
campus have come out with
their gaily-colored spring
dresses, the men are in shirt
sleeves and some of the profs
are hardly distinguishable
without' their suits and form
al ties.
The dogwoods are, perhaps,
the most beautiful sight on the
campus at the present time. As
this is being' written, we can
look out of our second-story
window in Graham Memorial
and see the path running up
campus in front of Alumni
Building. Both sides of this walk
are lined with dogwoods and,
over-hanging the walk, present
a beautiful picture to those
strolling along this path.
Of course, the most obvious
sign of spring around" the cam
pus has been the over abun
dance of politics and politicians
the last two weeks. But, we
don't have to worry, about that
any longer. All we have to do
is sit back and read the results.
Another sure sign that spring
is here is the baseball action
which we find almost daily in
Emerson Stadium. Then, too,
we have only to venture to
Woollen Gymnasium to find that
usually busy sports arean al
most deserted. Outside, how
eve?, we find the intramural
fields packed with solftball
games.
From reports reaching ''the
DEAD OR - ELSE
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Order Of The Grail
land, where he constructed
the . first English Christian
Church at Glastonbury.
From this point, the 'Grail
became a mystical symbol, of
the knightly way of life; and
another legend tells that nearly
five hundred years later, three
of King Arthur's knights act
ually saw the holy relic after
a long pilgramage: Sir Galahad,
'the most perfect knight, Sir
Perceval, and Sir Bors. The
search these knights of antiqui
ty led for the Grail is sym
bolized today through the Or
der of the Grail by the men se
lected each year to become
Knights. Both in King Arthur's
Speaking
Hill," the weather all over the
state is the same. Balmy, spring
days have the whole state bask
ing in sunshine from Manteo
to Murphy. Reports have the
temperature hanging in the
seventies and eighties most of
the time.
i 'The beaches . have beer
jammed-packed for the last
three weekends as the early
bh-ds have been down to get
their fill of the -fresh ocean air
and wet scalps for the first time
since early September. i
There's only one hitch ta all
this talk about the beautiful
spring weather which we have
had for the last few weeks. The
weather man, in his daily re
port, yesterday predicted that
a cool air mass would push in
some . rain for today. Who
knows?
But despite the rain which we
may either have as you read
this or not, one thing remains
clear. It is spring. And we still
have our flowers, dogwoods, at
tractive young damsels in pret
ty spring dresses and we still
have the "Garden Spot of the
South."
Random Shots
Bank$ Talley, newly-elected
secretary-treasurer of the student-body,
was quoted recently
as saying he intended to "hack
it out," as he referred to alleged
"graft" in the publications field.
Yesterday Banks was seen
"hacking it out" planting shrub
bery in back of the Chi Psi
house ... Chuck Hauser is
wondering how in the world he
ever was endorsed by the Stu
dent Party for the Publications
Board. Seems the SP slammed
Hauser publicly, nominated Bill
Kellam to run against him for
editor then endorsed Graham
Jones in the runoffs against
Hauser when Kellam was elimi
nated. Inconsistent, what? eh?
tme and this, to discover the
Grail and to become one of its
guardians is the ambition of
good and valiant men.
Founded thus in Arthurian
legend, the theme of the Grail
is carried out in its physical
aspects by the furnishings of
the Grail Boom in Graham
Memorial, where the symbolic
Chalice is kept, and where
generations of Grail members
have met around the huge
Round Table. The plaques on
either wall list the members
of the Order since its found
ing in 1920, and the decora
tions and paintings carry out
the Arthurian theme.
The Grail Room was given to ,
the Order as a meeting place !
when Graham Memorial was
completed in the Depression
days of the early 1930's, on the!
condition that the Grail furnish
it and allow other campus orga
nizations to use it a condition'
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WASHINGTON Five years
ago today, Harry Truman stood
uneasily in the Cabinet room of
tfce White House taking the oath
as President of the United
States. He was a humble man,
imploring the Lord for guidance
and the American people for
help. "
A lot has changed since then.
The wars then raging on two
continents are officially ended,
though they continue unofficial
ly without loss of life. Then men
who saw Harry Truman take the
oath and who helped him dur
ing those first trying days are
largely gone now. Bob Hanne
gan, who put his friend in the
White House almost with hi?
own bare hands, is dead, sad
dened by the fact that the Pres
ident had turned his back.
Three Secretaries of $tate
have also come and gone Ed
Stettimus,. now dead; Jimmy
Byrnes, now bitter; and George
Marshall, now retired.
Many of ihe President's close
friends in the Senate have dis
appeared from his table, and
the coterie surrounding Tru
man has grown smaller and
smaller. The palace guard is
as tight as a drum.
It will be for history to eval
uate the wisdom of Truman's
policies and the efficacy with
which they were carried out.
It is too early to judge them
now. But one factor now mould
ing the results which historians
later must evaluate is the White
House circle and its jealousy
toward the outside world.
This zeal to knock off any
man who even remotely resem
bles a rival to the President is
the most important fact in the
political life of the nation today.
It has been responsible for
alienation of one of the strong
est members of the Truman cab
inet, former Secretary of Agri
culture Clinton P. Anderson,
now Senator from New Mexico.
And it is causing friction be
tween the President and the
Vice President today.
Those who do not know the
little band of zealots around
Truman -would scarcely believe
it, but ' they have convinced
themselves and him that Alben
Barkley at the age of 72 js a
candidate
for President. Fur-
thermore, they have cooked up
a tortured theory that Barkley
took a young bride in order to
demonstrate to the world that
he was hale, hearty and able to
run. They also suspect that
Barkley's many speaking
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DREW PEARSON
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gagements are to build him
for 1952.
Up
The broad-guaged Barkley,
though well aware of this
coolness, has chbsen to ignore
it. On the surfase, his rela
tions with the While House
remain the same. But the
old cordiality, the personal
warmth between him and
Truman is no more.
It is not known, even by Tru
man's intimates, whether he in
tends to run in 1952. But it is
definitely known that the palate
guard is itching to have him run.
Apparently the lush life of Key
West and the White House is
something they hate to contem
plate losing.
This was why one year ago,
the White House was anxious
to have Paul Hoffman bow out
as ECAdministrator. He was
becoming too popular, was fear
ed as a Republican candidate.
Today he is not considered so
popular and is being urged to
stay on. This was also why a
weak Democratic candidate was
left in the race against Senator
Taft in Ohio. For Taft would be
an easier presidential candidate
to defeat than Eisenhower; but
he would have no chance of the
nomination if defeated in Ohio.
Jealousy is carried to such
extremes that ex-While
House Counselor Clark Clif
ford recently cancelled an en
gagement his wife had made
with the Clinton Anderson
family to go to the Cherry
Blossom festival together. The
Anderson and Clifford daugh
ters had once been Cherry
Blossom queens, but Clifford
feared it would put him in
wrong at the White House
to be seen with the ex-Secretary
of Agriculture, who com
mitted the grave sin of being
willing io run for Vice-President.
The most important result of
this White Hause jealousy is in
the field of foreign affairs, where
Dean Acheson recalls all too
vividly what happened to Jim
my Byrnes when he tried to
conduct foreign policy without
constantly consulting the White
House.
In fact, it was Acheson who
had to straighten things out be
tween Truman nd Byrnes when
Jimmy made the mistake of an
nouncing from London that he
would make a broadcast to the
American people. Truman hit
the ceiling. He wanted no for
eign policy statements except
his own made to the American
people.
All during ihe Bvrnes re
gime. General Vaughan keot
needlino- his chief. "People
are talk;ng about the Bvrnes
policy," he would sav. "They
ought to be talking about the
Truman policy."
So only a few weeks after
Byrnes' error in announcing a
broadcast to the American peo
ple, a Presidential cable went
to General Marshall asking him
to pet ready to become Secretary
of State.
That is why Acheson's
hands have b?n pai-Hallv
tied in defendinn himsplf from
Senator McCarlhv. Hp could
have made a masterful pre
sentation of the fcts rea.-!-iner
oth?r Presidents who
withheld fles 'ron Congress,
from Georqe Washinclcn to
- William Howard Taft. And
he could have made a bril
liant, clarifying statement re
garding the loyalty review
beards and how they were
staffed with Republicans. But
he didn't.
Instead, Mr. Truman issued
abrupt statements at Key West,
ignoring the clarifying back
ground arguments which would
have materially helped the pub
lic understand the Truman-Ach-eson
position.
A President Is only as power
ful as his- public support. Con
gress knows, this and begins to
rebel the minute presidential
popularity weakens. Today Tru
man's popularity has weakened
thanks largely to the band of
jealous zealots around him in
the White House. '