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The- official newspaper of the Publications Board of the University of
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sessions of the University at the Colonial Press. Inc., except Mondays,
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entitled to the. use for republication, of all news and features herein. Opinions
expressed by columnists are not necessarily those of this newspaper.
by HdrcSpook
Editor . ;
Business Manager t. i
Executive News Editor
Managing Editor . .
Sports Editor - J.
ROY PARKER, JR.
ED WILLIAMS
CHUCK HAUSER
ROLFE NEILL
..... ZANE ROBBINS
Don Mavnflrd Asunt-intft Ed ' x
" Andy Taylor, News Ed.
Frank Allston. Jr., Associate Spta. Ed.
Fay Massengill, Society , Ed. .
Neal Cadieu, Adu. Mgr.
Oliver Watkfns, Office Mgr..
Shasta Bryant. Circ. Mgr. ? -Bill
Saddler, Subs. Mgr. ,
f. News Staff: Edd Davi6, John Noble, Walt Dear.. Charlie Brewer, Barrett
Boulware. Stanley Smith. Billy Grimes. . ..
M W 1 . M W 1 , . J . VT 11C .111 11, .11 1 X. . .V.11UUU111( A- 11. .iwwvt . . .
Peacock. Ken Barton, Harvey Ritch, Cave Waters, Leo Northart, Eddie Starnes,
Bill Hughes. Paul Barwick.
- .society stajj: wancy uurgess. Margie storey, .cveiyn wngnt, . jviarvei sioices,
Sarah Gobbel, Lula Overton, Nancy Bates. Helen Boone, Jimmy Foust.
Business staff: Tate Erwih, Bootsy Taylor. Marie Withers; . Charles Ash-
- worth, John Polndexter, Hubert Breeze, Bruce Marger, Bill Faulkner, Pat Morse,
Chuck Abernethy, Martha Byrd, Marie Costello, Marile McGerity, Lamar
" Stroupe.
Staff Photographers . . Jim Mills, Cornell Wright
Iight Editor, John Noble
Sports, Ken Barton
Sign For Freedom
Students should romp down to the Y court to sign the
Freedom Scroll.
The Scroll, which will accompany the Freedom Bell to
Berlin later this month, is a concrete .answer to the Communist-inspired
Stockholm Peace Petition" which has been used
by Soviet Russia as a tremendously successful propaganda
device. The signers of the Scroll will reaffirm their belief
that freedom through democracy is the way of life that is
the way. to peace among the world's people.
Only ; a part of the giant "Crusade For Freedom" being
sponsored by the National Committee for A Free Europe,
the Scroll itself is the personal assurance ,of millions of indi
viduals that the United States is willing to take the fore, both
as a nation and as a people, in the world-wide struggle to
stop the advance of a way of life and a governmental form
that could only mean the enslavement of a major portion of
the world's population.
Students, who must in a short time take the lead in the
battle, and whose lives are. the biggest stakes in the struggle,
should take advantage of the opportunity to answer Commu
nism's challenge by signing the Freedom Scroll.
The Winston-Salem Journal
Who To College?
The recent, intensity of world
crisis has renewed the agitation
for allowing r 1 8-year-olds to
vote. Supporters' of such a move
argue, with great effectiveness,
that a man who is old enough to
fight, and perhaps die; for his
country is also old enough to
vote. .. ..
This argument naturally ap
peals to many 18-year-olds, to
the politicians who see the pos
sibilities of exploiting a huge
new and politically naive voting
group, and to manys sincere men
and women who feel that noth
ing is too good for a man who
must fight for his country.
On. the- other hand, many
- clear thinking people, including
1 a good proportion of 18 and 19-year-olds,
believe that a man
who is good fighting material
isn't automatically an intelli
gent voter or a good citizen.
The average 18-year-old, un
der ordinary circumstances,
isn't interested in and isn't cap
' able of rendering an intelligent '
vote. The franchise should be
given only to those who will ex
ercise it intelligently and dili
gently. Without a 'doubt, many
who now may vote do not quali
fy on either count. : But this is
no reason - for extending the
franchise to others like them.
There are good reasons why
the 18-year-old doesn't partic
ularly care one way or another
about voting. He is a teen-ager
more immediately concerned
with his own particular social
affairs and trying to decide
what to do when he becomes a
man. Until he has decided upon
his course in life and launched
himself upon it, he has little
occasion to wonder or worry
much about matters of state or
- national import. ?
He is busy enjoying life as he
matures. He does not have the
resp6nsibility of' a family of his
own, his own property, and is
usually not even paying his own
way. He is, generally, a dependent.
; The Richmond Times-Dispatch made a, vigorous 'dissent '
to a statement of President George D. Stoddard of the Uni
versity of Illinois in his address during the inauguration of
University of North Carolina President Gordon Gray.
Dr. Stoddard, noting that a Fortune survey of about a
year ago indicated that 83 percent of American parents
queried said that if they had a son, they would want the son
to go to college, expressed approval of the attitude, and indi
cated that if parents wanted their children to go to college,
they should send them, irrespective of any aptitude or desire
on the part of those children for higher education.
The Times-Dispatch, for its own part, expressed strong
approval of the idea that any young American who makes a
high scholastic record in high school should have the op
portunity of. winning a scholarship to college. It favdrs col
lege attendance by young men and women who are intel
lectually able and who have an aptitude and desire for
collegiate education.
L i But asks the Richmond paper, how are any real academic,
standards to be maintained, if young men and women who
have no aptitude or desire for college study are sent to
college just because their parents think they ought to go?
That newspaper would apparently prefer a selective 7
system designed to enable the colleges to obtain the ablest,
most apt and brilliant students and turn aside the numb
skulls and. dimwits,? as it were. This system -is already em-
ployed by a number of colleges and universities which
maintain high scholastic standards.
With respect to those young people who are able to meet
the entrance requirements to the average college, the ques
tion arises as to what group of persons or groups are thor
oughly qualified to pass judgment upon the question whether
a college career would be beneficial to Tom Jones or Billy
Brown. Some of the most useful and successful men in Amer
ican lifeare those who made poor grades in high school and
went on to brilliant college careers.
So the question of selection is vital in any consideration
of a selective system of college education. Any ' individual
institution, of course, has the right to set up certain minimum
entrance requirements and maintain certain scholastic
standards. But should the state attempt to say that Billy
Brown, who made an A average in high school, should, enter
college, while Tom Jones, who got through high school by
the skin of his teeth, should not be allowed to go to any
college? '4 ttHiJO
Not only is the issue of educational democracy involved,
but likewise the question of accurate predetermination of a
person's potentialities for community or social usefulness.
U. S. Grant was a poor scholar, we are told: Had he been
refused admission to West Point or had he flunked out in
his, first year the history of this country might have been
vastly different. -
This is as it should be. During
the late teen years a young man
must have the chance to decide
what he is going to do. He must
not be rushed too soon into do
ing something immediately be
yond ' his scope. And with
modern society' requiring more
time than ever in the prepara
tion of a man jto take his
position as an adult, a man is
older than ever before when he
reaches the point of being in
dependently responsible for his'
actions.
And why should the 18-year-old
be allowed to vote just be
cause he is old enough to fight?
The beginner in a big corpora
tion works for his company
without having a vote on the
board of directors. The son of
a farmer works long and hard
hours in the field without hav
ing much to say about running
the farm.
But the diehards insist. After
all, they repeat, the 18-year-old
should have a voice in the gov
ernment that sends him off to
fight.
That makes poor sense, that
play on the emotions. The fran
chise isn't a reward and
shouldn't be a right. It should
be a privilege, restricted to
those who can and will use it
intelligently and conscientiously.
A good fighting man isn't
necessarily a good voter. And a
good voter isn't always a good
fighting man. They each meet
a different set of qualifications.
The move to give 18-year-olds
the vote wouldn't serve the pur
pose intended. On the premise
that a man who has to fignt
should have the right to vote,
all the young men and women
not in the service wouldn't have
this "right" anyway. . ' '
And those who are fighting
won't have the time to vote.
On Campus
Remark by our favorite his
tory professor in class the other
day:
"I like the colonial times be
cause they called a spade a
spade in those days and some
times thejr called it a damned
shovel." ,..
49rc- ts uAstt- post
Tar Heel At Large by Robert Ruark y35
Mr.- Ed Pooley,' a Texas editor, is a man who
likes to take a full cut at foolishness from time to
time, especially when it concerns governmental
double-talk. He, has just embarrassed the Depart
ment of, Agriculture rather severely by sending
in his personal check for a few items of chow.
Mr. Pooley's check was not large only- $27.50.
All. he wanted to buy was 100 pounds of canned
meat, at a nickel a pound; 100 pounds of butter
at 15 cents a pound, and 100 pounds of cheese
at IVi cents a pound. ' ;
"Brother Popley, who lives in El Paso and pays
his income taxes by check, didn't feel he was
asking -a favor. It is a matter of fact that our
government is offering surplus foods to foreign
countries at these mild prices.
'"I feel- sure," Ed wrote Secretary Charles
Brannan, "that you would just as soon have an
American take advantage of such bargains as
you would a Briton, a Frenchman, a Dane, a
Norwegian, an Arab, a Greek, a Turk, a South
African, a Parkistanian, an Egyptian, a Czech,
a Hungarian, or any other foreigner."
This seems reasonable on Mr. Pooley's part.
He is an American citizen who pays large taxes.
It is his money which makes possible the sale
of these bargain-basement eatments to a flock
of strangers Mr. Pooley does not know. On a bas
is of fair f iggerin' a man is entitled at least to
an, even break with strangers in buying things
he has already paid for.
But it does not work out this way, it seems.
Mr. Pooley will get his check back, with a sharp
note of disapproval. The meat was killed in
Mexico as a result of our recent interference in
their hoof-and-mouth epidemic, and does not
qualify for all the inspection requirements under,
the 1931 Smoot-Hawley tariff laws. (What ever
happened to 1931?)
The butter and cheese, agriculture said, can't
be sold to U. S. consumers because it would only
force the government to buy corresponding
amounts on the open market to hold up prices
on Pooley's order, as required by. the price-support
law. This is known as bureaucracy in full
flower, or how to make an enemy out of the
grocer by not paying your bills. ?
Mr. Pooley, being very disagreeable, points
out that the same butter which is being sold to
the foreign friends for 15 cents a pound is being
offered for resale in this country for 63 cents a
pound, giving the government a profit margin
of three cents. i
"I do not like to believe," Mr. Pooley writes,
"that my government would deliberately hold
up prices of the necessities of life to its own citi
zens and virtually give them away to other
peoples."
But then, you see, Mr. Pooley does not under
stand the grand concept of global meddling. He
does not understand how it is enriching to the
soul to pay a buck a pound for meat when the
neighbors get it for 15 cents. He is the kind of
man who would quarrel with the plowing under
of little pigs and who would never have seen
eye-to-eye with Henry Wallace.
No, Mr. Pooley is not a visionary economist,
in the modern sense, or even a follower of Lord
, Keynes. All I wish is ne was Secretary of Agri
culture, or even President. To Mr. Pooley a
straight line is still the shortest distance between
two points.
Rolling Stones
by Don Maynard
We've almost gotten through another year
without a really serious change -n the calendar,
except that Thanksgiving ha'been juggled back
and forth so that we thought it might be forgot
ten in the confusion. But no, South Building has
decided to make a decision.
Thanksgiving holidays for the ymversity will
commence at 1 p.- m. Wednesday, Nov. 22 and
will end at 8 o'clock in the morning the follow
ing Monday, Nov. 27. That's official, students,
and came about because "the fourth, rather than
the last Thursday in November, has been desig
nated nationally as Thanksgiving Day." Let's
all give thanks.
We may be behind the times, but we only
heard the other day about one of the sly ones
put over by a local fraternity last year. It seems
the group thought it would be a nice idea if
rushees vjsiting the house during the 1949 rush
ing could look at teevee while drinking their
punch. So, the boys bought a set on the install
ment plan. "
Jt was working fine, until the man who sold
them the set dropped around to see how it was
working; Not knowing who he was, and perhaps
, a little slow on the pickup after a week of late
hours, one of the brothers let the cat out of the
bag.
In answer to the salesman's query, the broth-
er replied that it was working fine, but that they
really didn't care if it did or not, because "we're
going to send it back as soon as rushing is over."
Size Of Vote Regrettable
Editor: . . .
It is regrettable that so few students chose to vote m ia i
Thursday's election. At.a time when so much is now dependent on
student government, around 1,200 students went to the polls to
express a democratic choice. That means that about 16 of tlu
students chose to support their leaders who are faced today -with
problems of proposed tuition increases, the entrance of Negio
students, cooperation with downtown merchants, and proving it
self to a new president. One out of six isn't many for an organiza
tion that not only spends $100,000 of your money, but also decides
whether you and your friends stay in school on Honor Coce
violations ... in short, one out of six is downright disappointing
So what's the problem? Simple ... get more students interested
in their student government. That shouldn't be hard, you say- j
after all, something that affects students as much as student gov-j
ernment does should be able to excite enough merest m itself.
Unfortunately, such is not the case. So where does an answer lie
I'm afraid ho one can give a concise and adequate solution. Per
haps it lies in a different basis of orientation; maybe some publicity
from The Daily, Tar Heel would help (few people had read of cy
campaign until a headline appeared on election morning. But thp
best way is for a recognition of responsibility on the part of CaroJ
Una's political parties the SP and UP.
It's this simple: Here at UNC, we're trying to change yoiw
for the better, we hope. Our job here is to mould you for a lift
outside among a grown-up and oftentimes harsh world. WeV
training you to be an American . . . and don't laugh, for sonm
of us could pitifully well use it. i
And one mighty big obligation, is voting choosing not on1.,
who your big boss will be, but also who. the little subordinate.!
bosses will be. That responsibility applies just as much to studen
govefnment and South Building as it does to U. S government am:
Washington. Our bosses are looking to you for direction . . . tv
only way you can give them direction is to speak in a loud voie j
... the best way you can speak in any kind of voice is to vote . .
last Thursday Carolina whispered.
- The Student Party heard that whisper, and aware of its. grea'A
responsibility, is justly concerned. At its last meeting, the SP;
overwhelmingly passed a resolution to increase their endeavom
in behalf of student government, and in the coming fall electior
to make a renewed effort to bring to North Carolina the kind oi
student support that has for so long been needed. And that support
is support from you you, the student body, 6,800 strong; for ir
your combined voice, right and justice will emerge triumphant
To that end, the SP dedicated itself.
The Student Party in the past has tried to give the candidate ,;
who were intelligent, honest, and capable. We think that the recent
SP victory, personified in Roy Parker, is an indication of the trust ,
that the students place in the unimpeachable integrity of the
Student Party. Just as we have supplied that type of candidate
in the past, so can the students continue to anticipate that same
kind of leadership potentiality that will be offered in candidates
endorsed by SP in elections to come.
Bob Evans
. SP Chairman
In Re William Evans
Editor:
Feeling myself unequal to the task of discussing an issue so
mixed up with the Communist issue, I hesitated to write this
letter. After thinking about it, however, I came to this conclusion:
that the fact that we were quickly losing our civil liberties with
the McCarran Bill, the Taft-Hartley Law, etc., was not the Com-4
munists' fault, but our own. So after careful thought and sober
meditation "here It' is:
Your editorial on William Evans shows an intemperate and
hasty judgment. Also, your facts were incomplete and inadequate.
About two months ago, Durham Recorder Judge A. R. Wilson,
overstepping his authority and misusing tlie vagrancy laws, stated
that he would arrest circulators of the Stockholm Petition on'
charges of vagrancy. For this, Wilson was editorially condemned
by every reputable paper in the state. Among others, my home-':
town newspaper, The Asneville Citizen-Times, condemned him ,
for this. ( ;
The point to watch for here (which your editorial chose to '
disregard) is this: Evans, in challenging this despotic threat to the ,
first amendment which guarantees the right of any citizen "to
petition his government," also secured for us the right to petition.
- Our forefathers paid for that amendment with blood, and it ii
not for some Recorder's judge to take it away from us.
Communism is not the issue. When the German people for
feited the rights of Communists and non-Aryans, they had for
feited their own.... and a horrible price they paid for it, too.
It is the right and duty of everyone, of all of us, to fight for
minority rights lest, we lose our own. The editor of The Daily Tar
Heel should not have waited for Evans to challenge this outrage.
As Thoreau would have saidr the editor, being in a position of
leadership, should have challenged it himself. In doing so, he
would have been able to come back and write a more intelligent
editorial.
..Emanuel Couilakis
Have YOU signed the Freedom Scroll yet!
Then do!!!
Might be an idea worth remembering.
Over at the big ditch being dug for the Medi
cal School, a Chapel Hill lad was watching the
progress of a steamshovel. After a while, not
having gotten the word, he turned to a workman
and asked just what was going on. Were they
digging to Korea?
Not at all, replied the laborer, the new med
school was going in that big hole.
"It's too big," countered the lad.
. "Well then," the laborer tried again, "we're
going to throw all the S.O.B.'s in Chapel Hill in
the hole and bury them."
"Huh," snorted the lad, "who's going to be
left to cover them over . . ?"
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To our latest acquaintance, Bernice, we offer
our humblest apologies. A dear friend of Bill
Buchan's, she wrote us a letter the other day
and demanded that we use her name correctly.
"My name is not Beatrice!" she complained.
"My name is Bernice."
A mere bust of a girl, nevertheless, we
apologize.
In the serious vein, thia columnist wishes to
offer his sincere condolences to the W. P. Jordans
and to their nephew, John, upon the sudden
death of John's father. J. C, or "Jakes" is one of
our nicest acquaintances, and the Jordan family
the best.
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