fWEDNESDAY, DECEMBER G, 13
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by Harry Snook
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Editor
Executive News Editor
Managing Editor :!...:
Business Manager .....
Sports Editor
....... ROY PARKER. JR.
. CHUCK HAUSER
ROLFE NEILli
.... ED WILLIAMS
;. ZANE BOBBINS
Staff Photographers'
Jim Mills. Cornell Wright
Don Maynard, Associate Ed.
Andy Taylor, News Ed.
Frank Allston, Jr., Associate Spts. Ed.
Faye Massengill, Society Ed.
Neal Cadieu. Adv. Mgr.
Oliver Watkins. Office Mgr.
Shasta Bryant. Circ. Mgr.
Bill Saddler. Subs. Mgr. , -
News Staff: Edd Davis. John Noble. Walt Dear. Charlie Brewer. Barrett
Boulware. Stanlev Smith, Billy Grimes. .
Sports Staff: Joe Cherry Lew Chapman, Art Greenbaum, Biff Roberts, Bilt
Peacock, Ken Barton, Harvey Ritch, Dave Waters. Leo Northart, Eddie Starnes.
Bill Hughes. Paul Barwick. '
Society Staff: Nancy Burgess, Margie Storey. Evelyn Wright. Marvel Stokes, -Sarah
Gobbel, Lula Overton. Nancy Bates, Helen Boone, Jimmy Foust.
Business Staffs Boots Taylor, Marie .Withers, Charles Ashworth, John
Poindexter, Hubert Breeze. Bruce Marger, Bill Faulkner. Pat Morse. Chuck
Abernethy, Martha Byrd. Marile MtGerity. Lamar Stroupe, and Joyce Evans.
Marie Costello Ado. Lay-out
"or This ' Issue: Night Editor. John Noble
Sports. Bill Hughes
Elections As Expected
The fall campus election came off. about as expected, with
the University Party taking most of the Student Legislature
seats, and all of the class officerships, except one! The Student
Party took a single Woman's seat on the Student Council.
The vote was little better than the usual fall vote, al
though it did surpass last year's vote of the same election. It
was also a little better percentage-wise, since there are not
as many students in the student body. There is another bright
: spot in the outlook when one remembers the dearth ;of cam
paigning that preceded the election,, a dearth that," we be
lieve, has never been matched in the past. In other words, it
was a dull campaign.
The freshman class, for the second time this year, has
proved that it is poll-consciouS. It cast nearly a third of the
votes cast, just as it did, in the special election held earlier
this yea?. The unusual interest created with four presidential
candidates in the field could have been the reason-for the
large freshman vote. We hope, however, that it means the
first-year students . are more cognizant of the duty at the
polls than have been their predecessors. The fact that so few
freshmen took part in a candidate-picking session during
freshman assembly, but twice that number voted in the elec
tion, would seem to back up the contention that the fresh
man vote was an indication; of a poll-consciousness not com
pletely attributable to . interest in an unimportant election
of class officers.1 : ',
. The political implications of the-vote seem to be nil. The
success of the University Party was in line with a pattern
that has been true for at least two years. Although the UP
, did fare a mite better "than it did in last year's fall ballot
settoo, there is no .indication of any great upheaval of the
Student Party ability to beat the UP in campus-wide elec
tions." " ' . ' 1
All-in-all, the vote and result was about as dull as the
campaign that preceded the voting. We think maybe, the elec
tion got just about the attention and vote it 'deserved. There
were several capable persons at least, persons of experi
ence chosen for the Legislature, and the size of the fresh
man vote was heartening.
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Why is the most important
word in the world. And why
is the most neglected thing' in
the world. Why usually results
iri nothing more than just be-
cause, which is art excuse ' for
lazy people and the reason for
many of the tragedies of all
time.
Why this stress on .why?
The lack of a good, solid why
is a lack of faith in and enthu-:
siasm for what we do and don't
do. Now, few of us do what we
should do and most of us do
what we shouldn't do.
We should do everything" we
can to make ourselves into bet
ter people, a better nation and a
better world. But ask the typi
cal person why; he should do
these things. If he offers an
answer, it will probably be just
because.
We should study hard to learn
more, work harder to do more
and sell the idea of growth and
progress to others. Why?
We shouldn't be lazy, igno
rant, mean or dishonest. We
shouldn't refuse to think and act
in matters of religion, politics
and education. Why? -
Motive is the key to any hu-.
man activity. And why, asked
in a loud voice, eiposes motive.
Unless the. motive is understood,
the activity is hard to under
stand. It's fairly safe to say that peo
ple are becoming less able to
understand more things as time
goes on. These people fall back
upon rules and regulations for
guidance. And the rules become
habit and action and, eventually,
goal.
Then a few people find them
selves in a position where they
may control many people. The
mass doesn't ask questions ex-i
cept 'of the simplest, easiest kind
to answer. The mass follows the
rules. So the few merely devise
rules and simple rational argu
ments to support them.
And the mass of people gets
farther from the complete truth
and more under the control of
the rulers and regulaters. Just
because they didn't ask enoungh
good, solid whys. '
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Make the break. Start asking
why to everything you think or
do. Start- with the ground
breaking question, "Why not
ask why?"
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On Campus
.While most schools are trying -to
fight off a boost "in the price
of a cup of coffee, students who
eat in the college cafeteria at
the University of Buffalo have a
unique worry:
The customary pickle en
hancing the hamburger is now
considered a separate item a
penny a pickle!
At the University of Minne
sota a week or so ago, the edi
tors of The Minnesota Daily real
ly scored a scoon in true journa
listic style.
When the head football coach,
Bernie Bierman, announced his
resignation, the Daily rushed an
etra onto the press. Before the
student papers could be distri
buted, however, the word came
to the office that The Minneapo
lis Star, the downtown competi
tion, had jut hit the-streets with
:its first deition. including the
story on Bierman.
1 The Minnesota Daily still
scored its scoop. It merely had
its staff members go to town and
buy out every newsstand which
had received copies of the Star.
A few minutes later, the student
publication hit the streets.
Of course you have to wade
throigh knee-deep Stars now to
get to a typewriter in the Daily
-office: 5- '- -:- - . r. "
Tar Heel At Large
by Robert Ruark, '35
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico The sermon for to
day concerns the barber, the siege, the radio
announcer,.. the garbage can, and the Hero of the
Dirty .Towel. It is also a postscript on the seTni-
silly ' Nationalist- revolution which threatened
the lives of both President Truman and' President
Munoz Marin of this island.
Pedro Albizu Campos, the fomenter of the
Uprising, had a very good barber named Vidal
Santiago. Vidal was a brave man who believed .
strongly in the anti-American principles of Al
bizu Campos, the man who masterminded the
attempted assassinations.
So it" happened that when some of Albizus
radical boys shot up a post office in a San Juan
suburb, adjacent to Vidal's barbershop, the cops
came, and so did the National Guard. Attention
was then turned to Vidal's barbershop, which
was known as a Nationalist hangout. Vidal re
sisted arres't, and unlimbered a gun. The battle
of the barbershop was joined.
An enterprising radio man named Luis En
rique Marrero,-otherwise known as Vivi, then
produced, the most amazing journalistic feat of
the season. Vivi, 27, had a portable transmitter. -He
also found a garbage can.
Using the garbage can as a shield, he crawled
right up to the door of the barbershop, rle got
his transmitter working, and not only got on the
air of his own station, WIAC-but hooked up with
some 18 others. The battle progressed from 5:15
p.m. to 7:20 more than two full hours.
. ".Vidal,.; the; barber, stood off a collection of ,
several dozen police and National Guardsmen.
(The legend has it now that over 200 men tried
to take the barbershop.) Guns roared and bullets
whistled, and the enterprising radioman collared
all the. color from his vantage- point in the "gaiV .
bage can;v 'zi s -ts: - ;s..v:jr?c
More 0.5 Announcer Vivi performed an audi-ence-participStion
feat that must go unchal
lenged for initiative. He would beckon an mem
ber of the 'besieging force and perform what
It's Not A-Bomb Time, Yet
.. Editor:
we used to call a "Joe Blow" in that tired old
World War II.
."This is Sergeant Juan Rodriguez of Villa
Paimexas," Vivi would say ; Inlo his mike. "Say
a few -words to- the audience, sergeant."
"' Sergeant R'odriguez would then say: "Hello,
Maria, hello, mama, hello, papa. It is a tough
fight but I think we will win." Then Sergeant
Rodriguez would reload his carbine sand throw
a few more shots, for the .benefit of the radio
listeners; at the beleaguered barber.
At one time, a smoke bomb was to be heaved
into the barbershop, and the thrower was tak
ing too much time. A tough cop said, directly
into Vivi's mike, for all the island to hear: "Come
on, you so-and-such idiot, throw the this-and-that
bomb."
Vivi's voice smoothly . filled the aching void
behind the profanity. "Senores y senoras," he
said, "you must forgive Sergeant Gomez' rough
ness of tongue. He is unduly excited by the bat
tle, and we are rather close to the area of
combat." -:
Several thousand people gathered to watch
the battle of the barbershops' After two hours
the barber quit. When they carted him out he
owned some 27 separate wounds. He was sent to
the hospital, where he is recovering today. He
has asked God to forgive him, and repents his
sins of Nationalism.
In some random firing after the siege a small
child was killed. Vivi got a bonus from his radio
station,. .And. after the .attempted assassinations
ToS 'P.i ciitlent Truman 'and President "Munoz Marin,
they went to collect the revolutionist chief, Al
bizu Campos. They fired one shot over- his
house, and Don Pedro came out waving a dirty
tfO-wel. . ..' . . . ,: . .. .... . .
' -That-is- why! he is known today as 'the Hero
of? the .Dirty v ToweL and hisj.barber, is-already a
legend. Except for the sad fact that people oc
casionally get killed in Latin revolutions, they
ell should be set to music. Preferably by Gilbert
and Sullivan.
Dear Harry Snook:
-So you want to drop the A-bomb. 'You think it's time to fi, x
our star-spangled biceps and make the whole Manchurian bold...
radioactive in a supreme effort to end the war and save Amerko,:
lives. A lot of people agree with' you and there's no denying yt,.;
;have a convincing argument. But, Harry, if we drop that bomb no -Joe
Stalin 'and his boys in the Kremlin will have their biggest c ei
bration since Stalingrad, their biggest laugh since Yalta. Here ,
why:
The minute the bomb explodes, over 500 million Asiatics wi;!
be united for the first time in their history into an organized b!
for the sole purpose of destroying the United States. Communis
photographers from around the world would swarm to China to
do nothing but take pictures of women and children and death arvi
destruction. The Reds have enough material to feed their propa
ganda machine as it is. We can't afford to vrite their copy for them.
Don't forget that Russia has the bomb, too. Any advantat;u
we'd have in an atomic war would be short-lived. Britain an !
France have threatened to wash their hands of the whole busines ;
if we use the bomb in Asia. We need every precious ally we can
get. If we didn't we wouldn't we flirting with Tito. We still haw
anti-Communist friends among the Chinese. If we use the bomb
it'll ruin a beautiful friendship and we'd be playing right into th
Communists' hands.
Use of the atomic bomb would not mean the end of a small war
' but the beginning of a terrible war. lce world still has a chance
, for peace. We lose that chance if we drop the A-bomb and our
generation will have the dubious privilege of watching civilization
go down the drain. This isn't the proper time to play pur ace card.
Our armed forces need more time to grow and organize. The United
Nations, although shaken, is still intact and negotiating. Besides
we've always fancied ourselves as the true blue guardians of de
mocracy and righteousness. The atomic bomb makes the ovens of
Buchenwald and Hitler's Gestapo look like a sorority initiation.
Dropping the bomb at this time is neither the military nor the
psycho1 agical nor the moral thing to do.
Just look at it from the profit and loss angle. If we use the
bomb we gain perhaps some limited military victory. On the other
hand we open ourselves to swift retaliation by the Communists.
We cause dissension - among our friends and incur the venomous
hatred of our enemies. The bomb won't "end the war" as it did in
the case of the already-crushed Japanese. It will merely ring the
bell for round one.
This isn't to accuse you of bloodthirsty warmongering, Harry.
This is no "Stockholm Appeal" designed to outlaw use of the bomb.
Naturally if a full-scale world war pops and we find ourselves
fighting for survival, use the bomb by all means. But not yet! I pray
to God, not yet!
Barry Farber
The Carolina Front
by Chuck Hauser
When you feel the hot breath
of exam week blowing down
the back of your neck, you know
it's not only time to start study
ing but it's also the beginning of
the Christmas -season.
From the lights and decora
tions downtown, you also get a
hint that the holy season is here,
but at times it seems that the
holy aspect of it has been lost in
a maze of commercialism.
Back on Dec. 10, 1948, Daily
Tar Heel staffer Charlie Joyner,
now working on The Rocky
Mount Telegram, also had a
complaint about a Christmas
season practice, but we'll let
him, tell you about it:
.."With, WW's cimn setting the
precedent,, the English language
is becoming so abbreviated that
in generations to come, students
of; history will undoubtedly
have a difficult time decipher
ing the writings of our civiliza
ton. However, University stu
dents will continue to unsus
pecting sign up for these
courses as they are' sure to be
listed in the cat. as cryp. (for
cryptography) courses. (Stu
dents today may take crypt
courses at any morticians school.
Any body interested see the
ghostwriter responsible for this
deadline.)
"What with the YMCA, the
CPU, the IFC, the ICC's, SP
and everything else from UP
down, it looks like there's noth
ing left on campus that isn't
abbreviated except coeds' skirts!
"Any day now we may ex
pect to see a copy of A. L.'s
G. A. come out looking some
thing like this: 4 score & 7 yrs.
ago our 4 fats. brt. 4th on this
cont. a new nat., conceived in
lib. and ded. to the prop, that
all men r created equal.
"Seriously, though, we can
take all abbreviations except
Xmas, and that is one word wc
would like to see x-terminated.
Without Christ, Christmas has
no meaning, and none of
should be in such a hurry that
he must abbreviate the birthday
of our Lord. Those who stand
up for the abbreviation argue
that X is the proper symbol for
Christ, but the majority of those
who use it never heard or
thought of that reason for writ
ing it that way."
Lend An Eye
MY BLUE HEAVEN If La
Grable is forced to appear in
in the future she'll have to rely
on more than, that .beautiful
frame she throws around.
Betty Grable has led a phe
nomenal career. She has ap
peared in no less than Tsix flop
peroos and still manages to pull
them in. The: customers, that is.
. .This one is no better than the
usual Grable vehicle and even
lacks: the;: saying sraee;; of. 'at
least, ha vin ' a f e.w. enterta ining
production numbers.
All the numbers are flat and
dull and some are pretty feeble
excuses for song and dance. A
newcomer, Mitzi Gaynor, shows
promise. She has a sharp sense
of comedy and is a better danc
er than Grable.
Usually we can take anything
in music and technicolor, but E.i
Carrington couldn't do much
worse -than this. ,tt-S..W, : w
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