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Merry-Go-Round
Commies Cooling
On Berlin March
.By Drew Pearson
Edilor
Buiineta Manager
Managing Edilor ..
Sports Editor
GHAHAM JONES
.... C. B. MENDENHALL
ROY PARKER. JR.
ZANE ROBBINS
Ntw Editor Rolfe Neill Adv. Manager .... Oliver Watkins
Society Editor Wuff Newell Bus. Office Mgr Ed Williams
Photographer Jim Mills Natl Adv. Mgr. June Crockett
Subs. Mgr Harry Crier Circulation Mgr. .. Shasta Bryant
"Edito"rialBoard: TorrTDonnelly. Hugh Wells. Bill Prince. Glenn
Harden. Herchell Keener.
Editorial Staff : Sol Kimerlin, Wink Locklair. Tom Wharton,
Effie Weslervelt. Mike McDaniel. Barry Farber.
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.
Nancy Burgess
"NjghTE Greenbaum.
Ready for the Finals?? 9 more days. . .
Truant Officer's Report
To the Students of North Carolina:
This is a report on the continued absence of our new
president, Gordon Gray, from his office. Rumor'has it that
he is not intending to take up his duties until after the fishing
season is over, and so we want to make sure- that he is not
just playing hookey this summer.
On investigation, it turns out that he is working on an
assignment. This is not especially hoteworthy, until we
Vnow that this assignment is from Truman himself, and is
moreover one of the most important assignments ever given
otJt an American president, "
The '.qckground reading for this assignment is modern
history sin 1945 jn particular, this fact is important: the .
same war w;ch blasted and devastated industrial areas
in most parts of 4he world made American industry bigger
and htalthier than ver before.
After the war, America's foreign t?coTiomic policy was dic
tated by the relief needs of Europe, UNRRA, and the British
loan came first. The Bretton Woods plan was intended to
solve the problems of monetary unbalance. Then the de
teriorating international situation called into being the Mar
shall Plan and that three-initialed trio, ECA, NAP, MAP.
Total American overseas investment since 1945--a stag
gering $75,000,000,000. Result communism still going, like
a house afire, has upped it from a pre-war 190, million to a
present 720 million people.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson's response to the chal
lenge is . his recently proclaimed "total diplomacy," Every
thing that he means by this is not clear yet, but one thing is.
And that is the recognition that American policy has been
disintegrated and piecemeal, dealing with superficial symp
tom of international disorder instead of with basic dis
locations. The "dollar gap" is one of the most serious of these.
America's economic health, instead of communicating itself
to Europe and Asia, does just the opposite. These countries
willingly buy American goods, but are discouraged from
selling their own products here by tariffs. The result, for
nations as for individuals, is bankruptcy. For awhile, Amer
ica can bail them out by giving them dollars that they
might have earned, but this cannot last. Countries cannot
preserve and strengthen their self-respect and will power
as long 'as they have to live on the dole like this.
Here is where Gordon Gray comes in. His job this sum
mer is to persuade America to let foreigners sell four bil
lion dollars worth of goods to us every year. To many Amer
icans, this sounds like four billion dollars less of American
goods being bought, low profits for American businessmen,
increased unemployment, cheap foreign labor, vanishing
markets, and finally depression.
Graham's Strength The Truth
They have sought to smear Frank Graham in many other
ways. But now they have hit the bottom of the barrel. Being
determined to smear, they have left the lies and gone over
to the more easily peddled half-truths. They are concentrat
ing their half-truths toward one end. And the end they hope
to reach is to arouse in tho hearts and minds of every North
Carolina voter a deep and lasting prejudice against any re
forms or changes in the status of the Negro people of this
or any other southern state. They cannot prove that Frank
Graham is a communist; they cannot prove that he is a
socialist; they cannot prove that he is weak-willed and will
ing to be led; but they can prove that Frank Graham has
always had and still has a tender regard for the rights of
ALL CITIZENS OF HIS STATE INCLUDING THE NE
GROES. That is how they hope to beat Frank Graham.
They hit at socialized medicine, and tell no truths about it;
they hit at the farm program and tell half-truths about it;
they hit at foreign affairs and tell half-truths. But they tell
NO TRUTH about the race issue and that is just what it
is. They seek to convince the white citizen, that he cannot
afford to trust Frank Graham with the race issue, and to do
this, it is manifest that they misrepresent Frank Graham and
his record.
The truth is being TOLD about Frank Graham. His record
is open, but only to those who are well-informed enough al
ready or who can readily inform themselves from objective
sources. The majority of the voters have to take somebody's
word. They are getting plenty of words from Frank Graharn's
opposition. But what we're worried about, and what the
voter had better worry about is WILL THE TRUTH-BE
HEARD ABOUT FRANK GRAHAM before it is too late for
the people of this state to send back to the Senate one of the
greatest Americans of our time and possible the most worthy
Senator in that body today.
Hugh Wells
WASIHNGTON. High Commissioner Mc
Cloy has cabled the State Department from
Germany that the Communists are getting cold
feet and will back down on their threat to seize .
Eerlin during their May Day demonstrations.
McCloy reports he has learned that Foreign
Minister Yishinsky has called the East German
Communist leaders to Moscow and has ordered
them to abondon their invasion. Vishinsky and
the Politburo are now convinced that the West
means business and will fight to keep Berlin.
But Vishinsky gave the German Communists
a caustic dressing down for tipping the Russian
hand by their boastful speeches about what they .
intended to do. He figures that if the Communists
hadn't blabbed so much, they could have sur
prised the Western troops and taken over the
city in a few minutes.
Uncle Sam Pays and Pays
A Missouri grain company that grew up over
night shows how government agencies some
times don't let each know what the other
"hand" is doing. The company rented a section
of Camp Crowder, Mo., from the government for
$5,569, then, in effect, leased the same property
back to the government for $204,000.
Both contracts were signed within a week
after the company, Midwest Grain Storage and
Realty, wfjs incorporated last September. First,
the company rented 113 buildings at Camp Crow
der from the War Assets Administration, then
turned these buildings into storehouses for the
Agriculture Department.
War Assets .charged $1 per building, plus
varying rates per square foot, totaling $5,5ba in
rent. However, the Agriculture Department paid
Midwest 'one-twentieth of a cent per-bushel per
day for storing 2,041,803 bushels of surplus corn.
This amounted to $204,000 for 200 days the max-
imum number of days that the rate is in force
each year.
Thusj while .Uncle Sam leases from Petei
to pay Paul, Midwest Grain Storage rakes in the
profit. However, A. H. Myers of Kansas City,
company President, claims the gravy isn't as
thick as it looks. In the first place, he says, Mid
west had to pay for unloading the grain. The
Agriculture Department provided $30,627 extra
for this, but Myers claims it cost $40,000. When
it comes time to move the grain, Myers also
, figures it will cost more than the $15,303 hand
ing charges which the government is committed
to Jy. . - "
Hoover, Myers is counting on the $204,000 .
storage cotract being renewed for another year.
And, to this column it looks like good business
if you can get it. -
NOTE :. V. M4 Harris Grain Co. of Scott City, j
Kansas, an established firm, is also renting faci
. fities atCamp Crowder:'for storing 895,936 bushels
of surplus- wheat. Hais pays $16,713 in rent,
collects $66,800 in storage t?s.
Congressional Fur rHes
Ohio's portly Congressman Clarere Brown
flew into a rsge the other- day after an' objure
Air Force Captain got the best of him at a house
hearing.
. Brown was championing the cause of the
private grocers near Wright-Patterson Air Base,
who complained "that the base commissary was
hurting their business.
However, Capt. A. M. Puncsak, the sales of
ficer, refuted each argument brought up by
Brown and his constituents, with such cool con-
sistency that the Congressman began raising his
voice.
At one point, Captain Puncsak replied abrupt
ly: "I beg your pardon, Sir!"
This offended Brown's congressional dignity,
which he soon discarded altogether. After Punc
sak left the room, following the hearing, Brown
exploded.
Waggling a finger under the noses of the
other Air Force Officers, Brown shouted: "That
little S.O.B. ' (referring to Captain Puncsak)! He
ought to be court-martialed!"
Then he went into a tirade about military
officers in general.
"Some of these military people think they've
got the world with a- string around it," said the
Congressman from Ohio. "I have tried to be
good to you,, but you people haven't done right
by me. Don't, forget, I've got a' long memory."
As an afterthought, he quickly added: "Don't
think I am trying to intimidate you now."
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open to any other interpretation."
"That isn't
At this remark, Brown
language can't be repeated.
really blew up. His
New Farm Plan
Secretary of Agriculture Charlie Brannan is
working on a new farm plan. This doesn't mean
he is giving up the Brannan plan, but merely
that he is doing some research on an idea that
is growing on Capitol Hill.
The new idea would be for farmers to build
up an insurance fund during prosperous years
and draw on it during lean years. It is hoped
this eventually would cut government farm hand
outs to a minimum and shift the burden to farm
ers to pay their own support prices out of the
insurance fund.
Congressional interest in . the Federal Crop
Insurance idea is increasing, particularly with
Chairman Harold Cooley of North Carolina and
Congressman W. R. Poage of Texas, both powers
in the House Agriculture Committee. As a re
sult, Brannan has agreed to make a thorough
study of the idea and report his findings to Con
gress. However, this will not become a new Bran
nan Plan. In fact, after turning his research
over to Capitol Hill, Brannan will probably re
commend against it.
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Sincerity
Mur SSS in the Daily Tar Heel of M,y Hth
.macks a bit of propaganda,. In the first place,
t?e mere use of your signature would tend to
deprecate whatever you might say, since your
name has been so closely linked, as you know,
with a country that . your readers consider an
enemy country. It must be evident to you that
anything you say over your signature for a good
cause would do more harm to that cause than
good in this country. -
As to the real worth of your argument that
two harmless articles were directed against the
negro race, you did more harm to the cause of
happier race relationship 'by calling attention
to them" in the first place, and by warping a cas
ual jest into a monstrosity. It is quite evident that
the articles mentioned by you were really sat
ires: one on bourgeois tastes in radio programs
and the other on gin-drinking-flowers-of-South-ern-womanhood".
That a man of your intellect,
proven by outstanding work in your own field,
could be sincere in such a thesis seems to me
quite impossible. Therefore, I deduce that your
article,' clothed though it is in simulated right
1 eous. indignation, is in reality propaganda with
the vicious purpose of stiring up that same rac
ial hatred that you pretend to abhor. ,
It would seem to me wise for you to withhold
your name on any publication that you may make
in the future meant for real good to that cause
when writing for your present audience, that you
find material worthier of -criticism . if you want
to propagandize, and that you use better judge
ment, in the quality of the intelligence of your
readers. . - ,
Dixon Warren
Snatchers Among the Snackers
Mama Mia:
Ahora. that I write you, I am very mad. That
which happen, today has something to do with
another .thing that happen yesterday. And the
two of them, make little Panchito. very angry. ,
Somebody tells me thar good place to eat is
"Pine Room", so I go there yesterday to eat
breakfast. I stay in line como the other people
do. I order my breakfast y cuando breakfast is
I find que I can not carry everything because
I have only two hands. I leave a milk bottle on
the 'counter y I walk to a table. Cuando yo vol
vio, Bingo!!!!! The milk is gone, and the bottle
tambien.
I says nadie y buys another bottle of milk.
All that happen yesterday. Today Ivgoes to "Snac
bar in Pine Room" again. I order ray breakfast
again y I leave a cup coffee on the counter.
When I comes back the coffee she is gone . . .
.Where? En el esfomago del hombre who snatch
ed it from Panchito. What a buena suerte for .
him. If I had seen him it would be Mala Suerte
It is not the money that I. paid mamma mia
that make me angry. But like un amigo mio ,
dije "The principal of the damn thing." Cuando
, es the Honor Pledge that the Stewdents sign?
" Who knows? A signature is a signature y a cup
, coffee is a cup coffee . ...
But mama mia, little Panchito knows bet
ter. 'So cuando I go "to the "Snac Bar" I will
Wash-Out for the Damn "Snatchers among the
Snackers."
Con Amor
r Your Little
. Panchito
Yellow Journalism
Dear Editor: .
. Several days ago I addressed a letter to you
in which I commented on your editorial "Sunny
Florida and Greater N. C." Today, in your juve
nile masterpiece "The Daily Red Neck" the let
ter was finally published. But it was not my let
. ter any more. It was signed by a fictitious name,
"Robert Beans Renclds" and placed in a column
of fictititious letters. It would appear Mr. Editor,
that you are afraid to publish letters in opposi
tion to your1 personal views.
Let me be the first to remind you that the
Student Body elected you to your present posi
tion as Editor of"the Daily Tar Heel in the be
lief that you would carry on the fine liberal
views of Dr. Frank Graham, a man whom you
claim to support by words but do not support
by your acjons. Since taking office, you have so
twisted and distorted these .fine liberal vie we,
to pcor personal tastes, that your editorials have
become nothing "more than blasts of "yellow
journalism."
Now Mr. Editor, why don't ycu show us how
-- big you-are by publishing this letter as it was
meant to be published, and not by hiding behind
one of your cheap shams. Incidentally, I still be
lieve that your editorial "Sunny Florida and
Greater N. C." was far better fitted for the Dai
ly Worker than for the Daily Tar Heel.
f Very truly yours.
, Robert R. Rossit:r
Pearson Special
- Secretary of Defense Johnson was on the
horns of a political dilemma about the televised
cabinet meeting in Chicago. Generals and Ad
mirals urged him not to attend, said it was poli
tics. But the President wanted him there. What
the Admirals forgot was that Louey got his cabi
net job partly by raising more money than any
other man in 1948 .... Postmaster General Jesse
Donaldson is getting more mail than even the
President. Reason a planned campaign against
the once-a-day mail service by Bill Doherty, the
ambitious President of the National Association
of Letter Carriers. The cariers are stuffing hand
bills and postcards in letter boxes asking that
protests be mailed to Donaldson. The Postmaster
General is getting it from both sides, from friends
of the carriers and those who resent being pres
sured by the mailman . ' -
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