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FRIDAY, APRIL 21. 1S50 PACE TWO 3f() e Uaily 1 2Tar IHCeel The official newpnper of the Publication Board t the University of North Carolina, Oi;-l Hill, uhf-re it is issucri d.Jly during the regular sessions f tn University by tne ttoIini."jl HresK. Inc., except Mondays, examination and vacation period, and the summer term. Entered an second-class matter at the K,Hf office of C'tiapel Hill. N. C under the act of Mareh 3, 13TJ. Sub scription price: $8.M per car. S3.0O per quarter. Member of The Associated F'rf. The Awoci.itcd Pro's aiwi AP features are exclusively entitled to the oc ftr republication of all news features published heiein. Merry-Go-Round I Told You So ., . .. . -- Drew Pearson Fditor WunncM Mnnatjcr Manuainq Editor , Sport Editor JVeu'M Editor h nature Editor ... . $oclt y Editor t'Hcitrtttrnphcr Ann't Spurn Ed. GRAHAM JONES C. V.. MENDFNHALL .... ROY PARKER. JR. ZANE ROBBINS . ... Rolfe Neil! 1 Ad". Manager Don Maynard ! Bun. Office Mgr. . Wuff Newell ! Atft'l Adv. Mar. .. Jim Mills j Circulation Mgr. . Larry fox i Sub Mgr .... Oliver Watkin ... Ed Williams June Crockett Shasta Bryant Harry Crier (No one ever did anything for a hick except a hick himself.) Night Editors: News Andy Taylor; Sports Frank AHston, Jr. The DTH Takes A Beating WASHINGTON. FJve years ago today, this column broke one of the most sensational and unpleasant stories cf the war. American troops had reached the suburbs of Berlin, I reported, and then been ordered back to the River Elbe because of a demand by the Russiais. Publication brought immediate criticism from a great many people, who felt that I was upset ting U. S.-Russian relations. They especially ob jected to this paragraph: "At the height of the rapid U. S. advance (to ward Berlin), and just four days before Roose velt's death Stalin sent him a brusque note ac cusing the United States of making a deal with the Nazis in order to advance more rapidly through Germany. The note was couched in most caustic and critical language. The infer ence was that a U. S.-German deal had permit ted the Nzis to transfer more troops to the eastern front and thus kill more Russians." I mention this now, because that critical mail came from about the same general type of people who are now writ ing me letters upholding Sen ator McSarthy and denounc ing even remotely Russian. In other words, the pendu--lum of public opinion, having swung violently one way, has now swung just as violently the other way. Five years ago some people loved Russia too much, now some people hate Russia beyond the point of objectivity. . Sometimes we get better objectivity by thumbing through the pages of the past. And here are some situations taken from the old files of the Washington Merry-Go-Round which illustrate: Situation No. 1 On Feb. 18, 1946, I published another anti-Russian story which few believed and which made a lot of people sore. It read-. "Secret revelations are stirring in Canada. They will make people hold their hats and run for f , a ' l The Eighth Student Legislature dissolved itself at three minutes to one yesterday morning after appropriating the g rand sum of some $96,000. The record of the Eighth Legislature will go into the archives of Student Government showing that the student lawmakers of the past twelve months sat through many weary hours of debate, approved a revised Student Consti tution, passed the perfunctiorrary bills, and generally did' a pretty fair job of serving their constituents. Included in the record, unfortunately, are certain shady deals, (notably the CP-UP coalition that disregarded quali fications and rammed through a slate of CP-UP officers at the very start of the Eighth Student Legislature), several needless measures, and a great amount of lethargy. Late Wednesday night the Eighth Legislature in its final meeting acted on the most important measure of the entire twelve-month term of office. The job it did is not particular ly to its credit. , There is little need at this late date to go into a long de tailed list of questionable andor unexplainable items that kept popping up throughout the budget. But it may be in teresting to you, who pay the money that finances Student Government, in all of its activities, to know just where your money troes. .and how it goes. You pay $5 every quarter to finance Student Govern- the diplomatic storm-cellars. The biggest story ment and its activities. Such things as the Daily Tar Heel, Graham Memorial, the Student Entertainment Committee,, the Debate Council, and Yackely Yack are supported by funds from that $5. Due to an anticipated decrease in -enrollment at the Uni versity next year, the total amount that is available for the fifteen organizations that receive student funds is less than the amount divided up among those same organizations last yvar. " ' So here's what the Legislature did: 1. Told the Debate Council' to operate from a surplus of $4,G00. 2. Raised the appropriation for Student Entertainment Committee to $9,185. (This means that SEC got an $1800 in crease when other student activities were being curtailed). 3. The Daily Tar Heel, which costs the students less than 2 cents a copy, was cut over $3,000 from its requested ap propriation. 4. After hearing a very able presentation by Tom Kerr for Tarnation, the Legislature restored $575 to the humor magazine. 5. The Carolina Forum, the campus speakers bureau, was left with the same amount that it was given last year. 6. The Publications Board (this board controls, all three student publications) was cut. 7. The other major organizations were left with about the same proportional share as they have gotten in the past. What all of this boils down to, is simply this: - The lame-duck Legislature, led by President Sanders, de- and a half later, it made headlines when of o r tKroo H,r nrnrrrsm hv snmp raid"en- fieially revealed by a Congressional Committee V LUCU 1.1 let W vyvj wa wav,v J 1 tertainer (who could entertain at the most, only one out of every four students) will be more beneficial to you students, than the equivalent of nine days worth of Daily Tar Heel. Many funny and many very unfunny things happened in connection with the beating that the Daily Tar Heel was subjected to in the Legislature Tuesday night. Personalities and the most contemptible sort of selfishness and some of the slickest political maneuvering on this campus for a long time combined to defeat the DTH's request for the same chance as Tarnation, SEC, the Forum, and the other organi zations. You will have the' facts brought before you on this page. Those who disagree with our presentation of those facts will be given all the space they need to answer. Despite an attitude on the part of some tnat they have learned all there is to learn about the art of Statecraft, and know what is best for you, the non-political student, the DTH is convinced that the recent fight on block fees showed conclusively that the "campus leaders" do not always act according to the just wishes of the Student Body. -Publications Budget- t Continued from page 1) i purchased items, the subscription manager who) The Board chairman charged rises at 5 o'clock in the morning j after the session adjourned that to run mailing copies through the addressograph machine. Every salary except those of Tar Heel night editors felt the ae of the Finance Committee as backed up by the Legislature. The law-making body was told flatly by Hauser that "it takes the Legislature had "railroaded the Publications Board item through when the representatives of publications were not even in the hall." The Board budget called for an appropriation of $2,335 to cov er auditing fees, supplies, postage, felephone and telegraph, type- Chapelhillia fj arrest i- mmm II ' muZ V,CT,MS h-Mmfm&WM 1 "i'"HwWX.-.-. Campus Flashes Talk Away of espionage and intrigue since the war is about to break The Canadians have taken over a Russian agent, who has given the names of about 1,700 other Russian agents; also has put the fingers on certain officials inside the Ameri can and Canadian governments cooperating with the Soviet. . . .Photostats showing pay ments to U. S. and Canadian officials -have even come to light. "The State Department is anxious not to dis rupt relations with Russia. One Russian agent named Shimishenko was negotiating for the purchase of the blueprints of ah American jet propelled plane. The Justice . Department pro posed arresting him, but the State -Department said rio. Shimishenko sailed with his wife and child Jan. 6. He did not get the blueprints." This, I repeat, was published Feb. 18, 1946 four years ago. Once again there was a deluge of critical letters. . . ."Russia could not have done such a thing.". . . ."You are disrupting our relations with a great ally". . . .So ran the criticism. , Situation No. 2 On Sept. 7, 1947 I published another expose telling how a little group of government employees had operated a spy ring in a Maryland suburb basement, stealing blue prints of the B-29, photostating them, and send ing them by courier to New Y&rk and thence to Moscow. The story was considered so sensational that many newspapers did not publish it. One year Situation as of now today the American people are harassed, worried, and sometimes seething mad. They don't know whom to be lieve McCarthy, Tydings, or who? And I don't particularly blame them. But this much is fairly clear. While the Amer ican people have every reason to be sore, the time for them to have been sore was three and four years ago. Today the secrets are stolen. But likewise the present administration of the State Department has done the greatest personnel house-cleaning of all time. It was the Acheson regime which fired the 90 homosexuals. It was also the Acheson regime which ousted a long list of bad security risks. And though Acheson personally pulled a boner in indicating his continued personal loyalty to Alger Hiss, the real fact is that the men' under him have orders to do a thorough, vig orous job on loyalty checks. Acheson's Loyalty Review Board, incidentally, is under a New Hampshire Republican, Gen. Conrad E. Snow, recommended to Acheson by Russian-baiter GOP Sen. Styles Bridges. some $250 every day to publish ; writer repairs ancj depreciation The Daily Tar Heel. Every time J for aI1 publications and the sala you cut $250 or a fraction of that , ry Gf a paid faculty financial ad- irom thus budget you are cut ting out another issue of the paper." Hausr said an alternative to cutting out isurs of the now-daily paper would be to eliminate non essential in the publication, such as syndicated features, comic the crossword puzzle and other viser. "The appropiration for the Board's financial adviser," Hauser said, "had ben cut from $420 to $300, a ridiculous slash in view of the fact that we have a hard time finding a good man to take on that financial responsibility (See BUDGET, page 4) - That chilly rain and those cold gusts of wind which turned up yesterday morning sort of put the erimp in the first-beach-trip-of-the-season plans of a number of students. But may be the weather will change t6day. If so, we'll be the first to head for Wrightsville. . . .The inside of New West Building has a shiny new c6at of paint ( doubletoned, no less) on the in side. Looks great, but everybody's wondering when we're going to do something about the outside. Mebbe sand-blast? And talking about, outside, when the heck are those "tem porary" building going to be cleared off (the campus go we can see the campus again? We've all heard the story of the huge Navy Depart ment Building in Washington which was erected as a "temporary" structure back during the first world war and is still in use. THE UNIVERSITY of Min nesota. Now there's a school where they get right "down to the bare facts of life. Accord ing to The Minnesota Daily, a recent panel discussion on cam- pus concerned necking, and the entire panel with the exception of one dissident voted that couples should confine their on-campus osculatory, 'activi ties to a series of steam tun nels being dug. . ' Know who : the . . exception was? The representative from; the J'anhellenic-, Council, who decided that it-'would be better for the sorority girls if things were all up and above board. "Such action " would only serve to drive v them under ground," the Panhel cutie snap ped at the discussion group. "I say "let's leave ; them up where we can' keep an eye on them." ; THE DAILY ILLINI, student newspaper from the -University of Illinois at Urbana, reports that a group of 10 undergrads, working in a social psychology . experiement, were given their choice oi a number of interests. Their list was finally narrow ed down to two items: ' - 1. A juicy steak at, the Illini Union. , v 2. A chance to see Lana Tur ner in "Life of Sin," a movie never released publicly in this ' country. Believe it or not, the charact ers chose the steak. " THE DAILY TEXAN of the University of Texas smelled this one out in Austin. Several weeks ago, a ship ment of horsemeat came into town from Dallas. The whole sale distributor who handled the meat said he sent the first load back to the Dallas packers because retailers complained that the meat was "off-flavor." The stuff was being passed off as filet mignon and sold at $1 to 1.50 per pound whole sale. The scandal caused the Texas Legislature to pass measures prohibiting shipment; etcetera, of anything disguised as something, else that it isn't. So the students have gone back to eating again without 5ny worries. A few average students, a political science instructor and the director of Graham Memorial were the ones to make the pithy (no, that's not misspelled ) comments yesterday on the running of The Daily Tar Heel. Jim Rathburn, GM bossman, suggested that the newspaper carry a more complete calendar of campus events day by day. Another request of . Jim's was -improved coverage of local affairs. "Several columnists," the sharp-tohgued Rathburn continued, "who are not named, could be shot." Thank you, Mr. R. Evans Johnson of 513 East Rosemary Street said he didn't par ticularly care for the Billy Rose column, and would like to see Marquis Childs substituted for it. "There should be competent people," Evans Said, "to write the religious editorials every Sun day. And the editorial page should be' used for editorials and not comics." Sorry, Evans, but:that-is a problem of space which we simply must solve in that -way from time to time. Polysci instructor Frank Gibson also has those comic strips on his mind. In addition, "Better coverage on the sports page, and dont cut Drew Pearsori.' "AgaiftFrSnk,' "all we can do is point put that we just have four pages per day to work with. . Charlie Behrens says the paper , as a whole is as good as can be expected, "but the administration stinks. I can't notice any im provemen in the sports page,'' Charlie says, "since Vaden was unceremoniously booted. And what are we going to do for a sports columnist now that Vaden has left?" ' Homer Pulliam.of the Airport Road said 'he wanted better ' coverage of big league ball games, and Thaxton Richardson wants better proofing. Write Away From Raleigh ... Dear Grahan. Fran and I followed the Campus Campaign "with much interest, and wish to congratulate you on your election. Apparently it was a hot race 'and it. is additional credit to you that you won over such a worthy opponent as Chuck Hauser. I trust you will have a very interesting and profitable year, and I am "sure you will continue to make an increasingly fine contribu tion to the University community. Let us see you when you are again in Raleigh, and with cordial good wishes to you. I am Sincerely yours, Pv. Mayne Albright. From Buddy's Buddy ... Editor: . . iIS Your appointment of Zane Robbins to replace Euddy Vaden as sports editor was, to me, a move in which you stepped out of place. You don't know enough about the job to go around juggling talent! Come in out of the jungle, boy. Jim Peal Go Away! Editor: This from an old alumnus who thinks "that your staff might have missed the story as it happened. I looked in, myself, the other day, for the first time in years. Of course I'd heardall about the 1 "Commie scare," but scarcely expected to find one. Behind me, though, drove up a party which was all primed for a look at such a creature. At least that's the impression I got. Sure enough, a boy handed him a leaflet be fore he had taken half a dozen steps on the campus. He looked at it in sheer disgust, wadded it up, and threw it to the ground. From curiosity I picked it . up, and here js what it said: "Where Will You Be In Eternity?" James Wallace ' " "ft Zl 2:2. 2 $ -777? Z& M "1 1 &1 11 w 1 1 Germany 1S. feminine name 43. utter 50. germs 51. stitch . VERTICAL 1 . swab 2. ventilate UP AT SYRACUSE the Col lendale Council has set up a committee - to begin work on the collection of funds and clothing for a number of stu dents burned out in a barracks typs' building fire. It was the same type of thing that happened at;Oklahom not so long ago, has happened at other campuses in the past, and may strike here with no warn ing before we know -it. HORIZONTAL 45. curve 1. chart 4fi. river in 4. puff up 9. beverage 12. lubricate - 13. blacksnake 14. in what way 15. portend 17. erect 19. river islands 20. stable 21. rib: comb. - form 23. controlled 26. city in Iowa 27. bodies of still water 28. behold 29. hurtful 30. specified times 31. rubber 32. exclamation of admiration 33. turns out 34. constructed , 35. bewails 37. afflictions 38. units of work 39. domestic pigeon 40. French writer 42. razed 3. gratified 4. muse of lyric poetry 5. falls behind 6. high card 7. symbol for tellurium 8. commissions 9. Scandinavian 2!?. city in judicial Nebraska 10. goddess of dawn 11. reverential fear 16. holds session 13. macaws 20. ruins 21. intrigue ' body Answer to yesterday's puzzle. REC RTH i N A TTTOTN ASE.QR I V ESaJWf SH a ill rfcfe rQd &q E. 5. IEE QL IQp tG a Ms Hp? s.ac spOT Sir D TTs fEN S A TTnO NiS ElulslAr.StEkt iSlTklT 23. speck3 24. evade 25. rounded roofs 27. segments 30. hazards 31. mutilates 33. flowerless. seedless plant 34. English , author 36. clemency 37. rescues 39. stoop 40. duct 41. epoch 42. prevarica tion 43. twilight 44. jackda Average time ef olntion: 15 ralnutei.' 47 ..., Ditrlbuia by Klnj Features Syndicate pronoun Report From , . t . The President As the smoke and debris of the fight over the 1950-51 budget clear away, it seems advisable to review briefly the entire budgeting procedure of student government. Early in the winter quarter, the. Budget Com mittee, a 10-man group headed by the secretary treasurer, asks each organization receiving funds from student government to submit a re quest budget for the coming year. Total income from block fees is then estimated on the basis of Stouth Building's anticipated enrollment figures. Organizational requests are added up, and this total usually exceeds by several thousand dollars the expected income. Obviously some, and perhaps all, requests must be reduced to fit into the total budget. Representatives of the funds-seeking organiza tions, such as the Publications Board, Student Entertainment Committee, University Club, and class organizations, are cafled before the Budget Committee, and each item of each budget is dis cussed. On the basis of findings here, request budgets are trimmed, approved as requested, or in some cases increased by the committee. This involves study by the Budget Committee of the functions of each organization, its record of service to the students, the manner in which it has utilized its funds over the past year, and needs for the coming year. . Every effort is made to leave in the unappro priated balance a small amount, usually about $1,000, to serve as a contingency fund to meet needs arising during the course of the year. When approved by the Budget Committee, the budget goes to the. Finance Committee : of . the Student Legislature, where each item is again carefully gone over, hearings held, ' and such changes made as seem to the Finance Committee to be advisable. Its work completed, the Finance Committee then reports the budget out t the Legislature as a whole. In the Legislature, the budget is for a third time examined in detail and debated, item by item, such alterations being made in the recom mendations of the Finance Committee as are felt necessary to achieve the maximum effective use of each dollar of student funds. This year, the Legislature spent almost 10 hours considring the whole budget, which totals $100,565.44 in appropriations. Under this budget, the various agencies of student government will operate for the next fiscal year, which fcegins in June. S As can -be seen from this 1 short surrunarv', countless hours of thought and study go into the preparation of each year's budget. Final figures are only arrived at after everyone who is con cerned with appropriations, directly or indirect ly, has had an opportunity to debate them on three different levels. Such criticism as can be made -of the budget, and the appropriation received by any organiza . tion, must be borne by the Student Legislature, for no figure is final or legal until it receives its approval, -v Representing as it does the entire student body, it is necessary that the Legislature look it the budget asajwhole, jand at the needs of the various student agencies as related. Thus it happens that puts made by the Legislature in the interest of all the students are sometimes denounced by the group so cut as discriminatory and unfair.
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