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TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1 95o PAGE TWO ' TIIF. DAILY TAR HF.F.L Wrife Away ' H -r- r a a -r ,ir, A II I art Man i oils ah Ma. Thn official r.fpapr of the Publication Board of the .University of North Carolina. Cruipi'l Hill, where it n issued l,;ily during the regular sessions cf the University by the Colonial Press. Inc.. except Mondays, examination and vacation periods, and the auinmor terrru. Entered as second-class matter at the rot office of l'h;ipel Hill, N. C. under the act of March a, 1879. Sub rTtption price: M (xi -r year. WWl per quarter. Member ol The Associated lrris. The A worsted Press and AP feature are exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all new feature published herein. To Taft's Worst Foe .By Drew Pearson WilUnr punnet M'Wincr Pltina'ivrj t'ditor . i'porfi i.'Uifor titu'i Fd tor f tatute Fdnnr Snc'rt'i .d lor . r'iotoornpher Ain't .Sport t F.J . GRAHAM JONES ... C. B. M F.NDEN HALL. - ROY PARKFK. JR. ZANE ROlJBTN'S Rolf Neillltfu. Manager Don Mavnard I 0ux. C;7ce Mgr. . Wuff Newell I Karl -Adv. Mnr. .. Jim MilM I Circulation Mgr. . l.irry Fox I Subs Mgr Oliver Watkins d, Williams .. June Crockett .. Shasta Eryant Harry Crier NighlEditors: Newi Andy Taylor Sports Biff Roberts trie Book Worn A well-dressed, slightly pompous gentleman boarded a plane to Cincinnati during the middle of the last presidential' primaries, sat down be side a- fellow passenger and immediately en gaged in" conversation. "My name is Goodwin," he iristroduced him self, "William J. Goodwin. I'm for Taft." And during the flight to Cincinnati, Goodwin unfolded various interesting information about the Taft campaign. He" said he' had just been' to Nebraska 'to rounds up delegates' for Taft and was now going to" Cincinnati to get the Arch bishop to support Taft. Goodwin wras sure the Archbishop's blessing would put a large part of the Catholic vote in Ohio behind Taft. In fact, there was almost nothing Goodwin For our second destructive element on, the campus, we shall turn to the" bookworm. It is easy to poke fun at this little criller. lie is weak-eyed, inoffensive, colorless object who spends his davs browsing on the third level of the didn't1 tell : his fellow passenger except that he drew ,a salary of $25,000 a year as lobbyist for Chiang Kai-Shek, As the trip neared itsend, however; Goodwin' finally got around to asking the name of the gentleman to whom he had imparted all this valuable information. s tacks. The back of his I. D. card is unstamped by elections officers. His head is buzzing with ideas, but he is never found in any organization putting his ideas into practice. There' is not much use in giving him advice in this col umn, because it is beneath his intellectual dignity to read THE DAILY TAR HEEL. Instead, we should like to warn others against the insidious influences on campus which tend1 td' make5 students into book-worms. The difference between a student and a book-worm is that' a book-worm Has lost contact with life. His world is a crature of his own imagination, where events take place pleasantly, dispassionately, and reasonably. There is' a warning for all of us in this. We are all' in an artificial sort of situation; and unless we are very careful, we tend to think of the world we live in as'behaving just like a huge university. Thus, ideas that we idly dabble with in the4 university, are being fought for and died for in the? world. We stupidly try to understand, through" quiet dis passionate study, the tremendously compelling emotional forcesthat are sweeping the world: And sd we live1 in a hot-house atmosphere that makes.us very poorly equipped to understand the world we" live" in,' rnd to be'really appreciative citizens. We have trouble un derstanding why people of other countries believe in social ism when capitalism is so demonstrably superior, why de mocracy failed so miserably in' China' when 'all the" advant ages lay with our side. The1 reasons we usually give that the" world is full of fools and rogues may satisfy our egos, Imt do' little" else." This common practice of accepting ideas iirtd explanations because they make us feel good is evidence of the bit of book-worm in all of us. Besides these two evidences' of book-worrnishhe'ss0 (in terpreting as logical what is really chastic, and as reasonable' what is really emotional), there is a third dariger which' fires in the opposite' direction: And that is's seeing as idealistic what is really brutally realistic'. Iviuch of the goings-drr of the world is carried on at a selfish level that we seldom see evidenced On the campus. Last week" there' was" the refusal of California-fruit growers to aid the United Nations in. inaklh'ff Ihiir technical1 know-How available' to fr'ttll1 growlers' in depressed areas of' the world: Arid there was the refusal of two big American news services tb sell their services to the Voice of America too socialistic world you1 live irvdo you really understand it, or are' you living" in a' world' of nice people wild are tod intelligent for such things? : It is a rate student indeed whose thinking- is free from all these pitfalls. If you can inoculate yourself against these influences, there is some hope for you in the world you Hap pen to live in. If not, your years at the university will be preparihg you' for a world that unfortunately vanished in the mushroom cloud over a Japanese city. Tom Donnelly. Pitching Horseshoes By Billy Rose It's an odds-on-Christmas bet that De Maupassant, perhaps the greatest short-story writer of them all, wouldn't last a week as a reporter on a present-day newspaper. Let me try to tejl you why. News stories, with few excep tions, have little or no suspense because the reporter or rewrite man deliberately crams the im portant facts into the first sen tence cr, failing this, into the first paragraph. Succeeding paragraphs usually taper off in importance, and for a very good reason if the story has to be shortened for reasons of space, it's easier to cut "from the bot tom up." This, of course, is the exact opposite of the keep-'em-guess-ing treatment used by the De Maupassants and O. Henrys, and to give you an idea of the difference in the two tech niques, let me take a recent news story which appeared in a MidwesU-rrf paper and write it as if it were a piece of fic tion ... One' Saturday afternoon .not long asfq's a night watchman na'rhecl Stan Mlkalowsky was wind'ow-shopping with his f ive-ycar-bld' daughter, Wanda; arid as they passctf a" toy shop the child' pointed excitedly to' a doll nearly as big as she" Was. It had realhalF, eye's that moved and a' soil rubfcicr skin which looked almost human.1 The' figure' (hi1 the' price tag was only a dollar less than the watchman's weekly pay check, and his first impulse was to walk away, but when the youngster refused to budge he shrugged arid led her into the" store. When Stan got home arid un wrapped the doll, his wife was furious. "We owe the butcher for three weeks and we're ten dol lars short on the room rent," she said, "so you got to blow in a 'week's 'pay1 for a toy." "What's the difference?" said" the night watchman. "Doll or no doll, we're always behind. For once, let the kid have something she wants." One word led to many others and finally, wh'ile Wanda was in' the bedroom playing' with" the doll, Stan put on his hat and stomped out of the house. Mrs. Mikalowsky fed the child and put her to bed with the doll next to her and then, 'My name is Kroil Jack Kroll," said the fellow passenger. Goodwin's eyes bulged. , Kroll did nbt need to add that he was the head of CIO-PAC, the labor group busily engaged in raising money to defeat the same Senator Taft, whom Good win was ; determined to make President of the United States. - Note Goodwin, a former Coughlinite-Chris-tian Front er, and still the paid lobbyist for the " Kuomintang lobby, has been an important back stage figure in egging on Senator, McCarthy. A lot of people wondered why Taft, long a vigorous isolationist and originally opposed to too much American cooperation with Europe, went to the opposite extreme and even favored sending-armed' I). S. tfoops to Formosa.'. His old friend, China-Lobbyist Goodwin, is the an swer. with the FBI earlier, telling them every' detail, about the operation of the Communist Party; but up untii last week, after he was "appealed to by Senator McCarthy, he had not told the FBI anything about Lattimore. They selected as their top name, Corliss Lamont, son of the J. P. Morgan Partner, whose Wall Street background would give solidarity and respectability tb their list. From' that point on they enlisted 150 names' of "American artists, writers,'1 composers, editors, college professors and broadway figures.1' "Few, if any of those who signed the white wash of thetrials," wrote Budenz, "could pos sibly know that the idea was hatched, by top communist officials in - conference with NKVD agents." Biidenz went on tb tell how he had set up another front organiztion, with Mrs. Roosevelt as honorary chairman and Harry Truman as a member, to serve as a' screen for Marshall Tito, then under Moscow's wing: "As Editor of the Daily Worker," he wrote in' Collier's, " reported that the launching, in 1944, of the, American Committee for Yugoslav be lief. Under the guise of charity this was simply an" innocents' front to help Marshall Tito fasten his fangs on his country. "But Mrs.' Eleanor" Roosevelt became honorary Chairman1;- Among the' sponsors were the then Senator (how president) Harry S. Truman, - Dr: Albert Einsem, Rita' Hay worth, William Green and Philip Murray. These names speak volumes for the skill with which party-line boys handled the project. These and other1 sponsors dropped out when' the communist' influence became in creasingly evident in the following years. Over $3,000,000 was collected from soft-hearted Amer icans." There are several points to be emphasized about the above. 1. The American public has the right to know how" it was' fooled' in' the past, and Budenz de serve's 'credit for bringing it out. 2. Most of this happened during the war when we- wfere allied with Russia and , when million's of people' Were praying -for1 the Red Army's suc cess, not only to hasten the war's end but in order that American lives might be saved. Merry-Go-Round Price supports' on hogs, barley, arid soybeans will be restored as soon as Congress authorizes more money. The bill still hasn't1 passed the Seriate" . . live-wire Mike Di Salle, popular Mayor of Toledo, Ohibj is picking up strength in his primary battle against Joe Ferguson. Both are Democrat's arid' both Want to defeat Tift . . . The four Nbig veterans organizations Arnericah Legion, VFW, AM VETS arid the Disabled Ameri can Veteraris have beeri' maneuvering to get control of' General Aniline, the giant German Film and dyestuff corporation seized by the' government during the war. However,- President worried about Stan, decided to' Truman has' vetoed 'the idea, believes thaVto'give" go looking for him at the corner bar and make up with him. To keep his supper warm, she left the gas stove on, and in her haste threw her apron over the back of a chair in such a way that one of the strings landed close to a burner. the German firm to any one group' would be against the law . . . Southwest dust storms will not' cause another "Dust Bowl as irrthV 19&0's. Soil conservation has covered most of the area with grass. The British, when asked why they send' arms to the Arab states-, point out that the Arab? have unequivocally declamt thernselves on the side of Great Britain and" the' United States in the Cold War, whereas- Israel has' publicly announced strict neutrality ... the Girl Scouts of America was in flames; arid"- f iremeVi1 had' have lbrig- done a' patriotic job sending1' supplies, to forcibly restrain the" rather to European- school children. This is the kind of from rushing in to save his People-To-People Friendship which helps pre- daughter. vent war in the long run. Fifteen minutes later when the MikalowskVs came" rushing out of the bai", their frame' house" .- . ;S W SECRET Ipr Stumping It Fdr AAr. Smith .With: John Stump The eyes of the nation's po litical pundits' are turning to wards North Carolina's senator ial race according to Tom Schlesinger, writing under a Washington dateline for the Raleigh News and Observer. Schlesinger, who presumably draws his paycheck from' the coffers of Raleigh publisher .... 4 , Jonathan Daniels, goes on to say that some of the questions" wliich the state race is supposed to be providing- an answer for are whether or not isolationism is again popular, how popular' is the issue of liberty vs. socialism, and how effective Senator Mc Carthy's charges have been. ' He does not state his own po sion nor does he claim to be furnishing - other thart a job of straight reporting. However, most Tar Heels who' pay any at tention to horne state politics know' that the Eastern North Carolina" paper is pulling hard for incumbent Senator Frank' Graham. For that reason, many people' will understarid Schlesinge'r's omission of the most significant trend which the election may be expected to reveal. This' is how far the voters of the state wilt permit themselves to be led from Washington' arid other pressure centers. Main opponents' in the race are the incumbent and' Willis Smith, a Raleigh ' attorney with all" international' reputation, who has never been' so busy with his private4 practice tb give some of his time to public ser vice' sometimes at severe fi nancial cost. Graham . has the backing, open or covert, of the Truman administration, Daniels the voice of the Fair Deal in North Carolina,' the big national' and international labor unions, and Kerr Scott's state administra tion with its potent road bond patronage. Smith, on the other hand, has little or no organized in or out of state backing. His support is coming from the small business men, independent farmers, the legal profession, arid the plain people of the state. Thus, the outcome of the elec tion should reveal the extent to which organized backing par ticularly from . national organ izations and big out of state leaders can influence the results of battles in this state. Graham's backers in all prob ability would point out that thik out-of-state interest is explain ed by the fact , that the U. S7 Senate is'a forum of worldwide importance and that the voting record of a North Carolina Sen ator effects a Brooklyn resident just as- much as does the vote of Vito Marcantonio. Smith men, just as understandably, argue however that North Car olina should elect its Senator to represent this state arid not the citizens of some distant place. But the most, distressing- part of' the campaign to date has been the effort of some of Sen ator ; Graham's backers to write' off Willis Smith as-' some rich lawyer,; and by implication, a man who should have no inter est in the people of the state. This is simply not the case. Willis Smith took over the the speakership of the North Carolina legislature at a criti cal period ifl the history of the state arid' balanced the state's budget, enacted the Workmen's Compensation Act (a fact the labor unions resent since this was brought about by indepen dent state legislators none of whom was in political debt to any self appointed lobbyists, the state Maintenance program for county roads, and consolidation of the University. During- his six years in the General Assembly, Smith also was influential in enacting the first provisions for a state sup ported school system, the Corrupt- Practces act, the County Finance act. ' ; " . . The only possible basis of this attack on' Smith's - character could be the fact that the" Arner ican Bar Association elected him president and re-elected him to the post. He has also' served as president of the state and Wake County' bar associa tions and on many other local, state, and national boards and' commissions. Probably, however, the real reason that the opponents of Willis Smith are trying to laugh off his record' is the' fact that these attacks serve to obscure the fact that the state's sena torial delegation as presently' constituted cancels out Notth Carolina's representation in the Senate. For, although Clyde Hoey has not yet publicly come out for Smith, his political phi-" losophy is almost 180 degrees out of phase with Senator Frank Graham. Smith and Hbey on the other hand are much alike in their thinking. And this is also the' reason that the Truman administratiorT and the Fair Deal are beating the drum hard to beat" Willis' Smith. The DTH staff blowout has been scheduled for next Friday night. All factions; all cliques, all. writers to the UTS TO THE ED column and all mern bers of the Finance Committee and Colonial Print Shop are in vited to enjoy the blowout! All charges will be checked at the door On an average day at Lenoir Hall. lOO.'OOO servings of beans are dished up for the benefit of1 the student -storiiacri. Over 2,000 meals are eaten there' every day1. CREDIT DUE? The spring election is now over a week old The newly elected officers have just finished assuming their new posts, and are determined to show the electorate that they have not errfd in their choice of Student Government leaders. Congratulations seem to be in order throughout the campus. Congratulations are given the wm ning party the winning candidates, and even the losing candidates receive congratulations for running such a close race. Everybody has now settled dbwir to their regular spring quarter activities, gcing'to the beach and seeing baseball games and the political Hvorld is rapidly fading in the distance. But there is one place where con gratulatroh's are conspicuously absent. This has td'd&'ith the Elections itself. Everybody over looses the fact that, if it. hadn't. been for the con tinuous and thankless labor of the thirteen mem bers -of he Election4. Board,' the election itself WouTd have never taken place. It is to these thir teen that this article is written in recognition of the job accomplished in running the spring elec tion arid runoff. Mac1' Copenhaver' did a remarkable job as Chairman of the Cued Elections. It was through her publicity and foresight that the Coeds were the best informed people throughout the entire election. Her help in' getting the Coed expense accounts arid nominations in' on time was an other example of her tireless effort. Lew Chap man and Allah Donald wefe the people who were responsible forjhe're not being one single mistake or the many different ballots. Their checking With the printer's and making sure that the expense accounts were in good order was an indispensable part of their job. Bill Craft; A1. C. Mangum and George Darden deserve a great' deal of credit for the smooth manner In which every polling place was func tioning' throughout two entire Tuesday's of bal loting. Their' constant touring of the' campus from the Infirmary and Pittsboro Trailer Camp to the first' floor of Alderman1 prevented any unortho dox dblrigs from taking placel It was through this constant checkirig that the polltenders were maintained - well informed and that the polls maintained a sufficient' supply of ballots. Without the help of J! C. Rush and-his tabu lating group, the election return 'Would ridt have been1 obtained ' in one nighX It Was through the collaboration and coordination"' of ; Mina Lamar, Julian .Mason, Ronald Jones' Robin Scroggs and P; J. Warren that the. results of the entire elec tion were obtained by two o'clock the following morning. Their sorting of the' ballots from the numerous ballot boxes from early afternoon un til late night was' the main factor contributing to the early returns. . Last, but not least, I want' to thank:' the mem bers of the A'.P.O. .Service Fraternity for the invaluable support they gave me in serving as poll 'tenders ; 'Whenever necessary. It is to all these people, that' I off er my sincerest congratulations for a'job well done. It has been a real pleasure to have worked .with each and every one. of you this yeat, arid! just hope that the next Chairmari of the Elections Board has as fine a group of people to work with' Chairrrian of the' Elections Board Jim Gwynn Tj 12 IS 21 26 29 45 47 Si 8& 22. S9 77A 40 2 30 ss 1 V777. 27 'A S3 'A 19 23 Us 44 H 13 'A 36- 45 8 31 VZA 'A WA y77a X777A 28 46 49 54 57 17 7A 32 37 33 50 34 5t HORIZONTAL 1. thorax 6. food-fish 9. perched 12. 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Babylonian god 22. epoch 24. mien 27. equivalence 28. ancient 30. outlays' - v 32. electrical units 33. sister 34: before 36. tried out 38. eot 39. genua of grassek' 40. swamp 42. got up 44. independent Ireland 46. MeKainmir- dariprinc 48. Japanese coin 50. aptituda 51. French article 'CRUCIFixibl' Dear Editor: When you ran for office, ybii prbmised every effort toward' a better Daily Tat Heeli Mkhy ol us voted for you on' that score. Now, the" change in;spors editorship. Here ybu crucify a rrian'Whc never didr a bit' of' harm, but' has ddrie a lbt'oi good; Is that keeping faith with your voters.? Sincerely; yours, , , Betty Prior Caroline Whitney Sue Black Audrey Donrian Emiljr Bostwick Anne Royster Ann Birmingham Boots Taylor Jane Webb Ed's Note: If each of you will come by the office; T) tell you the" whole story of the cruciixing. recognition". Editor: I Would like to recognize some' of our unsuni campus associates. They don't hold' ariyv of fie and they aren't widely-known campus figures but they do render a great service to this schob I am talking about those guys' who make i their job to see about the welfare of the blinc students on this campus. They ask for no recog mtion and few people stop to offer them my. There is' a student who spends hours of hi leisure time making certain that they rece'iv nleKkr n t5me' and they don't;-he fur mshes them with money from his own packet r T hiS W0 never Lkin; &7enh 8lCh the bk for , eratnShV Tu hore the blind' sev era! nights to the week. .He.is helping thes -ed students to keep , up 4 worl, So -Cntl0n their hool work. II form, V T S t0 the ivies' or othe forms of entertainment' in his spare tirrie;. hS1 e oh this campus" tha Others iS2 ?'rV-ce,t0 0tKerV bre3" hen inl : Se t?vcmnhllWrV Help Carolina', Split o?. have refl W. ChWeV' Joyner
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