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Editor" Z.ZZZZZZZZZ. Z. I GRAHAM JONES
Buiines Manager C. B. MENDENHALL
Managing Editor ROY PARKER. JR.
Sports Editor ; ZANE ROBBINS
News Editor Rolfe Neill . Adv. Manager .... Oliver Watkins
Society Editor Wuff Newell ! Bus. Office Mgr Ed Williams
Photographer Jim Mills ! Nat l Adv. Mgr June Crockett
Sub.Mgr. Harry Grier ; Circulation Mgr. .. Shasta Bryant
EdiloFiaT BordTorrT DonnellfrHu Wells, Bill Prince. Glenn
Harden, Hershell Keener.
Editorial Staff- Sol "Kimerlin. Wink Locklair
Mcrry-Go-Round
Your Right
Is The Truth
LETS HAVE m
Tom Wharton.
Hehnassee, Effie Westervelt, Mike McDaniel, Barry Farber.
Bob
News Staff: Mark Sumner, Charlie Brewer. M. K. Jones, Tom Kerr,
Louise Walker. Edward Teague. David Holmes, Andy Taylor, Dick
Underwood, Caroline Bruner, Arnold Shaw Kimsey King.
Sports Staff: Frank Alliton, Jr., Lew Chapman, Joe Cherry. Biff
Roberts, Ken Barton, Billy Peacock, Art Greenbaum, Ronald Tilley,
Harvey Ritch. Walt Dear, Charlie Joyner, Pinkie Fischelis, Seth
Bistick, Ken Anderson.
Business Staff: Neal Cadieu, Tate Ervin, Bill'Prouly. Bootsy Taylor,
Don Stanford, Frank Wamsley, Ruth Dennis, Marie Withers, Randy
braver, Charles Ashworth, Dick Magill, Jim Lindley, Branson Hobbs
Carolyn Harrul, Bruce Bauer.
Night Editor: Andy Taylor, News; Art Greenbaum, Sports.
Lord God Of Hosts be with us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget.
It
The Rights of Veterans ...
The accusing finger of the non-veteran public is often
pointed at the veteran, with the accusation that just be
cause we are veterans, we "seek to set ourselves up as a
"privileged class." We know that this is a 'lot of hot air,
because the only thing all of us have ever wanted in life is
an even break. When we returned to civilian life from our
service assignments, all we expected was that we might
get started back into civilian life on an equal footing with
our more fortunate "brothers and sisters who had the good .
luck not to receive "greetings" from their government.
With the exception of housing, we found that in the main
we were able to get started out again on just about an even
keel. The mind of Franklin D. Roosevelt, that had con
ceived the master plan of World War II, had also fore
seen the problems that were to beset the veteran after the
smoke of all the battles had cleared. The expressed intent
of the G.I. Bill of Rights, to assure the veteran a new start
in life, was so boldly and unequivocally stated, that even
after FDR's passing from the scene, and even with his suc
cessor's half-hearted administration of the bill, the benefits
of the G.I. Bill have been felt by every veteran who sought
any assistance in getting his new start in life. Our thanks
can never be measured to that grand "Old Man" who so
clearly and pointedly foresaw every step along the way of
the veteran in the post-war world, where he might need a
helping hand to assist him over the roughest bumps. In
my humble opinion he is this nation's all time Greatest
American. ....
There are other rights which are familiar to us and to
every other citizen; rights which are forever embodied in
documentary proof of our democratic way of life; rights
which we have heard about and studied in school from
our earliest years until we too frequently take them for
granted. . . . The right of free speech, of freedom of religion,
and the right of assembly. We and our sons and daughters
have the right to ever remain free from want and to remain
free from fear, and as has been stated here before, it is our
duty to remain eternally vigilant that these rights might
be preserved.
The choice of candidates in the coming primary elections
of May 27th reminds us of still another right that of cast
ing our free ballot. In modern history, wherever tyranny
and dictatorship have set upon the little people of the
world to terrify, exploit and destroy them, it has so hap
pened because of the little guy's refusal to become inter
ested in his government, in politick, and in the candidates
who sought to attain power by running for office. The right
to cast your ballot is the keystone about which all other
rights are supported. Disregard this essential fact, and all
our precious rights shall tumble in rubble and dust about
our feet. If. you are interested at all in maintaining and pre
serving our Democratic and free way of life in these crucial
times, REGISTER and then VOTE.
Reprinted through the courtesy of the Tar Heel AMVET.
Church News
By Nancy Bates
This weekend the youth
fellowship groups of the Chapel
Hill churches had several
interesting discussions in addi
tion to the regular, religious
services.
Episcopal
The Student Bible Group of
the. Episcopal Church mot
House 9:30 Sunday morning.
The topic: Saint Paul's Epistles
to the Corinthians and their
meaning to us today.- Coffee
and doughnuts will be' served
and doughnuts were .served
Canterbury
Thu evening at 6 o'clock, fol
lowing supper and group ping
ing, the Cantcbury Club had
a panel discussion on "Re- -ligion
in Politics" led by Dr.
Kdwarc! J. Woodhouse of the
Department of Political Science,
Ik an Bill Friday, and Don Van
Noppen.
Holy Communion: at 8 an J
11 o'clock and Evening Prayer
is at 8 P.M.
Wesley Foundation
An invitation has been ex
tended by the Wesley Founda
tion of the Methodist church to
the regular Sunday Supper Pro
gram this evening at 6 o'clock.
Group singing and a worship
period led by Jean Hoffner will
be followed by a program on
Alcoholism. ,
W. T. Hough gave a short
presentation: "Alcohol as a
Problem: Facts and Figures."
David Pittman and Lillian Wil
son will present "The Case For
Moderate Drinking," and "The
Case .Against Moderate Drink
ing" was given by Kent
Jackson, John Lutz . related
implications of the problem to
the Christian conscience. Herb
Yates concluded with "Psy
c! I logical and Social Aspects of
Drinking." Following this panel
the audience participated
with discussion and questions.
Westminster Fellowship '
The Westminster Fellowship
of the Presbyterian Church
continue its current series of
programs on social action
with a talk by their guest
speaker Mr. Claude Shotts, gen
eral secretary of the YMCA,
who spent last summer in Ger
many directing a student semi
nar for the American Friends
Service Committee. He dis
cussed the social action of stu
dents there as they are trying
to meet some of the great needs
of their country.
By Drew Pearson
Washington. It is now impossible to give the
complete facts in the Russian attack on the
American navy plane over the Baltic an inci
dent which literally made the capitals of Europe
hold their breath.
Most of the facts are now known to the Rus
sians, so the American public
should be entitled to know
what the Russians know. In
fact, the Russians knew of the
plane's departure and the na
ture of its mission even before
it left Port Lyautey in Mor
occo, North Africa. They also
knew that the plane was equip
ped with high-powered radar
and electronics equipment
capable of watching Russian
amphibian maneuvers and the
flight of Russian rockets over the Russian's most,
secret rocket-testing ground the Baltic.
Just how they knew this is not known. But
it might have been from the list of navy person
nel posted on the bulletin board at Port Lyautey
before the plane took off. The bulletin board
was posted in a public place, and the Navy made
the mistake of giving the ratings of all 10 mem
bers of the plane's crew. This showed they weia
specialists in electronics, and could have tipped
off the Russians that the plane was on a radar
mission. '
The Russians have had uninvited observers at
our naval maneuvers, but usually in fishing boats
or submarines. However, it is much easier to
chart rocket flights from an airplane, whjch was
why the navy plane was used.
British Watched Incident
This plane flew from Morocco to Wiesbaden,
Germany, stopped for fuel, then proceeded to the
Baltic, and was about 30 miles off the Latvian
coast headed toward the secret Russian naval
base at Libau when four Russian fighter planes'
came into sight.
What happened from this point on can be told
with almost complete accuracy, because the en
tire incident was witnessed by the British N
through a radar screen.
The four Russian fighters, obviously lying-in
wait for the navy plane, ordered it to land. How
ever, the American crew had strict orders not to
let their highly classified electronics equipment
get into foreign hands, so they put out to sea.
The British radar observation showed the
Privateer swerved sharply, with -the Russian
fighters in hot pursuit. The plane was shot down,
almost immediately.
Does Crew Still Live?
The fact that British radar witnessed the in
cident was why the State' Department was so
positive in replying. to the Russian note. The Unit
ed States was also quick to identify the four Rus
sian pilots responsible for shooting our plane.
British radar was the reason.
' What surprised U. S. officials at first was that
the Russians announced the event to the world
in a note of protest. Reason for the publicity,
U. S. officials now conclude, is that the Russians
knew the plane had been observing' Russian
rocket maneuvers and determined to put the
United States on the spot.
Since the incident occurred, the recovered .
life rafts and submerged wheel have confirmed
the British radar's estimate that the plane was
definitely 30 miles off the Latvian coast. Exami
nation of the rafts shows that the plane hit the ,
water with an impact. The holes in one raft,
however, are not bullet holes, so the crew, if
they got into the rafts, were not fired on.
Speculation still continues as to whether the
crew could have been picked up by the Russians
later. Latvian fishermen reported seeing a Soviet
destroyer and several patrol boats rush out from
Port Libau in the direction of the crash. The Navy
has found several contradictions to this report,;
however, and doesn't reply on it. -
Note Chief conclusion to "be drawn from the
Baltic incident is that with Russian submarines
steaming close to the American shore, with
American planes inspecting Soviet installations
in the Baltic and with Russian demonstrations
being deliberately incited in Berlin, anything can
happen.
Government Cookbook
Congressman Howard Smith, the frock-coated
Virginian from across the Potomac River in Alex
andria, Va., still winces when he is joshed about
cookbooks. '
Cookbooks have become the bane of Smith's
existence. In fact the good "Deacon," as he is call
ed in Virginia, got so riled over the model cook
book. The morning papers said it was going to be
ture, that he stormed to the iioor ot the House and
said:
"Maybe some of you heard about this cook
book. The morning papers said tiwas gcing to be
given away free, and both my telephones were
clogged all day long. Now it has gotten to where
the mail is coming in about the cookbook ad
dressed, as 'Congressman Howard W. Smith
Cookbook Department.' I don't think there is a
single member of this House that ever had the
idea the government was going to spend $75,000
of the taxpayers' money on this doggone cook
book." If this was the last Congressman Smith thought
he had heard of the cookbook, he was sadly mis
taken. Irate Virginia housewives thereupon de
luged his office with tart letters. They said the
government should be commended for helping
jaded housewives find new rec'pes. One delega
tion came to the Department of Agriculture ask
ing if there wasn't some special way for the
"Neglected Constituents" of Representative Smith
to get cookbooks.
This female wrath finally converted the economy-minded
Congressman, and he began passing
out cookbooks. He even appended a pleasant
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College Or
Broadway?
Mrs. J. W. BLrney.
2015 West Knox ,
Spokane, Washington
Dear Mrs. Birnsy:
This is in reply to your letter,
about your son, Jimmie, and
I'm answering in my column be
cause it's a briar-pipe cinch there
are plenty of Jimmies with the
same problem as your son's, not
to mention an equal number of
Jennies.
As I get the! picture, Jim is
17 years old, and due to gradu
ate from high school this June.
Instead of going to college, how
ever, he wants to come to New
York and take a crack at show
business. You feel this would
be a big mistake arid want me
to write him, pointing out that
teen-age thespians usually wind
up flat on their budgets.
Well, Mrs. Birney, I'll' be glad
to oblige, but before I do per
haps I ought to, tell you sorne
thing about the future of the
business than which there's
no business like.
Two weeks. ago, as you may
have ' read, Frigidaire paid a
skid-nosed funnyman named
Spring's End
, For Sure
By Wink Locklair
After seeing Bill Hardy as the
killer ; last summer in "Night
Must Fall" it is a revelation to
see that he can be such a hilar
ious comic as he is in the role
of Prof. Percy Shelley Brown.
He has a marvelous song in the
second act called "I'm Just Wild
' About Wild Life," and his mug
ging with Miss Wolff is a nice
combination of the best antics
of Groucho Marx and Eddie
Nat White has-been seen sev
eral times this, season in excel
lent performances, but it's hard
to recall a role he- does better
than that of Paw Higgins. He
is a vaiuable Playmaker proper
ty. .1
Naturally a musical has good-
. looking girls arid "Spring for
Sure" is no exception. Dancing,
walking or just standing around,
it's pretty hard .to beat the looks
of Barbara Young, Wilma Jones,
Mary Jo McLean, Virginia
Young, Lee Noll, Anne Martin,
Elizabeth Kearney, Pat Hole or
Elizabeth Stoney. Miss McLean,
by the way, plays the young
Park Avenue socialite Millicent
who makes a play for Jeremiah.
She is a mighty attractive girl,
but some of her business, par
ticularly the song called "The
Other Woman's Man," was
somewhat overdone
The Harmoneers are in the
show, not so much as singers
this time as comedians. And
very good . comedians too.
"Spring for. Sure" is a hit for
sure.' The lighting, costuming,
and excellent accompaniments
by Frank. Matthews at the or
gan and Benjy Haywood are
Bob Hope $40,000 for a 90-min-ute
stint on a television show
which plugged its iceboxes
almost three times as much as
a U. S.t Senator makes in a year
of posing and pontificating. And
if that doesn't dazzle you, may
I point out that there- was a
page-one , story in Variety last
week that the National Lead
Company has offered $350,000
for a single telecasting of "South
'Pacific."
Fancy figures, you say? Yes,
but this is only the bumptious
beginning unless my crystal
ball is leaking, there's a great
day coming in which theatrical
talent will command the high-
"c-.st salaries' ever known to man
or Croesus.
As of this Friday, there are
fewer than 6,000,000. TV sets in
the 48 states, and a large part of
the potential audience is still
cut of range of any video sta
tion. The morning of the great
day I'm talking about will come
a few years from now when
there are four times that many
sets, and high noon a decade.
' hence when a house won't be
a home without a cathode tube.
As I hunch it, when that time
comes the world is going to be
a private bhiepoint for the lads
and lassies wTho can make folks
laugh, gasp or cry, and the only
limit to their take-home pay will
be the gents in the Treasury
Department.
In short, Mrs. Birney, I'll be
glad to write the scarifying, let
ter to Jimmy if you're sure your
boy has no talent and no capaci
ty for taking the assorted kicks
in the slats which are bound to
come his way while he's learn
ing the entertainment business.
But if he has that talent and
capacity and from your des
cription of him I'd say it was a
possibility you could do a lot
worse on July 1 than break the
piggy bank open and buy him a
ticket to Times Square.
Of course, you can argue that
you didn't raise 3rour son to be
a "millionaire. Well, that's a
point well-taken and, as Groucho
Marx used to say, if there's one
thing ' I like it's a point well
taken. ,
Sincerely,
Billy Rose
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Disturbing
Dear Grahamr
Certain policies now being pursued by the T&,
Heel are quite disturbing to a large part of thr
Student Body. I am not referring to your firo
and hire policies, because I can find no alarm
situation which has not existed before and which
is not to be expected with the change of hand.-
next spring.
What is disturbing is the attitude you have
taken with regard to your "mandate from the
students" which swept you into office. It can be
compared to Truman's election in more ways
than one. Yours was an upset, and although it
-may be argued that such a large majority can
not" be considered a true up?et, it wasn't the
general concensus of opinion before the run-off
that you would come out on top.
It also cannot be denied that you have become
quite high-handed since this "positive mandate
from the students. This can be positively cor
related to Mr. Big in Washington, as can the
idea of some that you were merely the lesser of
two evils running for the same office.
It might be extremely wise, however, to avoid
that which you are heading towards with roll
ing presses, and that is the change from an hum
ble pre-election donkey to a post-election ar
rogant jack ass.
This has become quite evident in your atti
tude, and also reflected in such columns as those
a certain Tom Wharton writes, that the Tar Heel
is yours to use fully and completely in what
everway you see fit, and that any opposition to
such plans and "actions has no legs to stand on.
Beforethe election you cried out about the Tar
Heel being a UP propaganda sheet which, I am
sure, most people will agree ws true. It is grant
ed that a change was needed so you were
elected.
What has happened since? Merely a transform
ation, my son, merely a transformation. Now,
instead of preaching the gospel of the Greek
Temples it has become a Democratic Party or
gan, extolling the virtues of Frank Graham. Yet
4his- paper is paid for- by the students whose
party allegiance MAY perhaps, if 'you would
pause and think for a mohient, lie elsewhere.
Few will deny that Frank Graham is the man
North Carolina needs in the U. S. Senate. Per
sonally, I not only want to. see him elected but
am also working toward that goal. Yet I fail to
see any reason why the Daily Tar Heel should
turn into a paper which daily praises this man
with eloquent, flowing phrases as if he were
' God rather than man.
I am also opposed to your tacking on the bot
.tom of practically every article which appears
in the Tar Heel for an opposing candidate . . .
"These views do not coincide with .those of the
editor."
Graham, we all know exactly how you feel
on this primary race. And when you tack that
statement at the end of the space primarily re
served for the editor's views you are within 5Tour
rights and 'privileges. But when an article ap
pears elsewhere on the editorial page, -expressing
the views of Graham's opponent, you are eom-
pletely stepping out of bounds of common reason
when you tack on your little, remark.
You are, to be sure, giving space to the views
of- opposing candidates adequately, after a fash
ion. But let's cut all this "politicking" down to
a minimum. After all, you can't turn the Tar
Heel into the stimulus which will stir all the
voters into a stampede toward the polls. And
the small segment' of the population which reads
your paper is rapidly skipping over those pro
Graham articles of eloquence because you are
merely saying the same thing over and over,
again, again, and again. You are merely wasting
space, and there are plenty of subjects and peo
ple or. campus which will more than provide
the material to fill the columns of the Tar Heel.
Recently you praised Dr. Frank for not usin:;
certain facilities in South Building which would
be a temendous help in his campaign. That is
very admirable: And if certain of his campaigners
would use the same discretion in regard to othor
univeisity facilities, it would also be admirable,
and greatly appreciated.
Curt .J Ruiledge
Award
Last week's winner of a carton of Chester
field cigarettes for the best letter to the Editor
is "K. E. Neilson, who answered a letter by com
munist Bill, Robertson. .,
Neilson can pick up his, cigarettes at the Daily
Tar Heel office.
FILLER BY SIEBER
... NSA's been talking up cooperation with
. the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association
Maybe it won't be the Purchase Card Sys
tem, but somethings' brewing yith them.
Communist columnist Bill Robertson wrote
two years ago that "the best is yet to be in this
changing world." Now, two years later, more
than ever before, we might say, "No kiddng?"
A thing which has kept constitutional bwyciv
round 'these parts hushed in awe alon with
all of us is the up-coming Supreme. Court w:rd
almighty on public education for the Negro
Talked with Blucher . Ehringhaus a few weeks
ago he's representing the state, in the Epp
case and he says that there's a pretty good
chance that the court will rule that North Car
olina and Texas and' all the other states can't
keep the Negro out of its great public universi
ties. It will be interesting to; watch this case
develop into a. new philosophy of our people:
at least, new to most of us.
Overheard in the Monogram Club: A customer,
. aftor reading a mouth-watering advertisement
in a Durham (some call it Doorm) paper,. came
down to try the food for himself. He took one
good taste of the food and (as the noticeable
young hostess drew his notice) said, "This IS
good!" As Pollard and Mustard (advertisin'
profs) would say, it IS gratifying to discover
that advertisin' really pays.
Local Politics: Ragmopsters were boomin' up
and down the halls last week singing the then
popular hit tune, "'V-a-n-n N-o-p-p, Van Nop."