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is J n 1 ! . ;! 1 ! iTUESDAY JANUARYf THE "DAILY TAR' HEEL PAGE TWO I fAG 0 T NortJ sessi exans publi Chap vear. ntit expr Poi Ma s EI A R al Fo Edit. Exec Man I Busi 4 Spoi I Don i- Anc f Fra; Fay ' s je;ailg Car The official newspaper of tbe Publications Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is published daily during the regular sessions of the University at Colonial Press, Inc.. except Sun., .4on.,' examinations and vacation periods and during the official summer terms when 'published semi-weeklv. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Chapel Hill. N. C. under the act of March 3. 1879. Subscription price: $8 per year, $3 oer ouarter. MeYnber of the Associated Press, which is exclusively entitled to the" use for republication of all news and features herein. Opinions expressed by columnists are not necessarily those of this newspaper. . .. Editor Executive News Editor Managing Editor Business Manager Sports Editor : ROY PARKER. JR. 1 CHUCK HAUSER ROLFE NEILL . ED WILLIAMS ZANE ROBBINS Staff Photographers ... Jim Mills. Cornell Wright Don Maynard. Associate Ed. Andy Taylor. News Ed. Frank Alston, Jr.. Associate Spts. Ed. Faye Massengill. Society Ed. Neal Cadieu. Adv. Mgr. Oliver Watkins. OfficeMgr. . Shasta Bryant. Circ. Mgr. -Bill Saddler. Subs. Mgr. Business Staffs Boots Taylor, Marie Withers, Charles Ash worth. John Poindexter, Hubert Breeze. Bruce Marger,., Bill Faulkner, Pat Morse, Chuck Abernelhv, Martha Byrd, Marile McGerity, Lamar Stroupe. and' Joyce Evans. Marie Costello - - - - Adv. Lay-out SOCIETY STAFF EDITORS A SSOCTA Tt EOiTflP. REPORTERS Evelyn Wright, Margie Story. Marvel Stokes. Sar- : .....Faye Massengill ....Nancy - Burgess ah Gobbel, Lula Overton, Nancy Bates, Helen Boone and Jimmy Foust. For .This Issue: Night Editor, Andy Taylor Sports,. Eddie Starnes Rules Of The Victory Road President Truman laid down a mighty course of action - for thisnation in his State of the Union speech before Cong ress yesterday. He made it plain that this nation intends to live up to its role as the arsenal of democracy and the citadel of freedom. One point he. stressed seems of great importance to us. The President called on the Congress to "put fulfillment of. the task ahead of party and personal interests." He then told the legislators that he did not mean a complete stopping of Congressional criticism, but urged the legislators to make their criticism constructive, and to keep the right paramount. Such a call to unity of purpose has always come from leaders in time .of .strife, and it would seem that this is just the same old cliche. However, we believe the call has mighty significance today. With the future of freedom walking on a shaky tightrope, unity of purpose is the most needed quality in those men who will be the leaders. Such highly selfish antics as the quasi-isolationist views of many of our most influential leaders, the moronic rantings of Senator McCar thy, and'--' the' political backstabbing at Secretary of State. Dean Acheson, are indications of a willingness on the part of many to torpedo unity of purpose with actions based on .party and personal reasons. The President has indicated a willingness on his own part to lay aside many semi-political programs in order to best meet the all-pervading challenge that is before us. In his speech, he subordinated his medical insurance plans, his civil rights program, and his old-age and social security pro gram to the.reater task. By taking in more and more mem bers of the' political' opposition into his administrative team, he has- shown his determination and willingness to subordi nate party to' purpose. He has shown a greater" and greater willingness to heed constructive criticism, no matter from which side of the political fence it emanates. Such is the type of .actions necessary if unity of purpose is to be achieved. Never before has such unity been so im portant. So important, indeed, that its achievement : or lack of achievement may well be the difference between free dom or slavery for the people of the world. Such is the tre mendous responsibility and challenge for those upon whose shoulders leadership rests. The President has pointed the way down which we must all march with purpose and with unity. At the end of the road we travel is victory, a victory achieved through such unity of purpose. ' - Solving Money Problem The-sharp drop. in enrollment for. this quarter, and the even larger drop sure to come in the Spring, has put a rriQne tary bind on student activities that is going to require string ent anddrastic curtailment and retrenchment. The drop this quarter is estimated at about 800, while the student body is not expected to be much over 5,000 come springtime. Such a drop in enrollment means that the $100,000 estimated in the student activity budget is going to be something like $75,000. Even the 15 percent "voluntary" cut taken by student or ganizations at the end of last quarter is not going to be sufficient. ' " Already paring to the bone are the big moneys-spenders, including the three publications, the Student Entertainment Committee, and the executive branch of student govern ment. This paring must be continued if the monetary bind is to be loosened. Leaders of student activities are going to have to work closely together and with understanding if the crisis is to be met and weathered. Students are going to have to bear with their leaders if the problem is going1 to be sur mounted. : . The monetary situation is one that is' caused by condi tions entirely beyond the control of student-leaders. In other words, the solution of the problem is one that should not be colored by selfishness or campus politics. It is a problem that should be met squarely and with a give-and-take attitude. Only by understanding action can we make the most of the bad situation. . ' j Another SEC Triumph Tonight the Student Entertainment Committee will bring another of its. excellent attractions to the campus. The Robert Shaw Chorale, America's" greatest singing group, will go through its vocal paces on the stage of Memorial Auditorium. The program is one that deserves attention, and, if possi ble, attendance from UNC students. Shaw can make the most of a singing group, and his genius is recognized wherever music lovers congregate. His work has brought down the praises of all who have been fortunate enough to hear it. In bringing the Shaw Chorale to the campus, the SEC has once again lived up to a habit and a tradition of making available topflight entertainment to the . appreciative audi ence that is the Carolina student body. the Carolina, FRONT by Chuck, Hauser I imagine, most of you have , been wondering for the last week what has 'happened to Harry Snook, who columned, his way through the fall quarter in this spot without missing a day. , v I guess you could call Harry a war casualty, although not in the usual sense of being in uniform. Trie rising post of living hit Harry, and he is now working full-time in his Bike Shop down on Rosemary Street across from the Town Hall, keeping himself and his pretty wife well fed, well housed, - well clothed and enjoying life. v ,. Harry's not planning on go ing into service anytime soon, since he spent some two and a half years in the Army during the last hot war. When I started knocking out . this column last ' Friday eve-( ning, my purpose was to ex plain why Harry had quit writ ing for The Tar Heel.' But on Saturday afternoon I talked to him on the phone and he made a remark about how much he missed writing the column. I suggested that he might have enough time to do one or two columns a week, instead of one every day. . So tomprrow Mr. Snook will return. j The explanation aside, let me tell you something about Harry Snook, the man who told you what he though about every thing from teacups to television day after day last quarter. Harry began wprk in profesr sional , radio when he was go ing to high school in Columbia, S. C. Before he was 20 he had worked with WCOS in Colum bia, WAYS in Charlotte, gone into the Army and gotten mar ried. , 'After leaving uniform, Harry ran a production agency in the Northwest for a while, then moved to WBT in Charlotte, where he became the youngest production manager in the coun try of a 50,000-watt key net work station. He then set himself up in bus . iness as a special station con sultant, planning, 'staffing 'pro gramming and selling radio; launching and operating new small stations until they could stay on their own feet. He start ed such stations as WLTC in Gastonia and WIRC in Hickory, and pulled "WETB in Johnson City, Tenn., out of the red. "I always want to know more about everything I can," Har ry" says, and that is the reason why he showed up in Chapel Hill'in the fall of 1949 and reg istered as a . freshman - in the General College." He's been here since. He started the Bike Shop last ;March to pick up extra money to supplement his GI check. In his own words, "I started the shop on a shoestring a sandal shoestring and now it is a substantial small business, as differing from General Motors and United-States Steel." In other words, Harry was proving to himself that private enterprise isn't dead yet. That's the story of Harry Snook, a man who has led a long and varied life, considering the fact that he is only 23 ye&rs old today. - Can anyone match it? "'Can't Take Any Chance On Having Varmint's Around . JJ i The Editor's Mailbox Farewell By Collier Editor: Sophomore Classmates: snrin" -ht You probably feeFthat the officers you elected last spun, .nt .uninTeresLi in the class. By this, I mean that so far jsy-w have had no activities. The fact is that our activity fund i. vei limited and we decided to -wait until the spring before plann.r.,. any functions. .Much to my regret it has become necessary for me to drop ou of school and join the Air Force in order to avoid being drafted. I feel very good about leaving the leadership of our class, in tht vc-i capable hands of our vice-president, Ben Wilcox and ho other qualified officers, Pat George, Dick Schwartz, and Joe Ne son. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all the hot of everything always. I hope 'that you all will have an opportunity to meet" as many of your classmates as possible before the year i over because we do have a very fine class. I just regret that 1 won t be able to graduate with you. Bobby Collier. President. Class of '53 Tar Heel At Large by Robert Ruark, '35 There is quite a passel of indignation loose upon the streets at the suggestion that we just knock off the hostilities in' the East, pretend they never happened, and shed a short tear for. the thousands who are already dead for an ideal that we have promoted all along. The bar-and -grill consensus is that we were possibly stupid "to stick out the neck in Korea, but we stuck it out. That being so, we wTere real ; dumb to ?et fouled up in the United Nations at all, since we have to finance it. and, largely, implement it. But fouled up in it we got, fi nance it we did, and implement it we have. Our bosom buddies, England and , France, have bounced merrily along with us to date in all our fine sensibilities, but now, with the dough on the line, they say knock off. How you going to knock off. Bud? The only history that is sadder than the history of aggression is the history of bended-knee appeasement jto aggres-. sors. England wrote the book ort that one, and France, heaven help us all, has certainly been unable to administrate its own affairs since they built a flimsy picket fence called the Maginot Line. ' There is no future in fighting China, but there is less future in backing down once you've chosen up the adversary. We shoved out the chin, for God, country, and a flock o tired de pendents. Said chin remains out, -' Whether to be knocked off or withdrawn is yet unknown. If you will pardon a personal intrusion, I went to sea for a living once ($10 a week, no overtime) back in the mid-thirties. when jobs . were scarce. As a fresh college graduate I was a spit in the eye to professional sailors, though I-was as hungry as they. , On the first trip out, I .- had. a lot of fights. . Some I won, some I tied, and some I lost. On the second. trip I had no fights. This was because I attempted to appease nobody in the foc'sle. While a lot of the boys aboard could whip me, it got to be too much trouble to bait a guy who answered a dirt' crack with a fist. Moral being that Mr. Chamberlain ' is remembered only for - his umbrella. - , , : ' We got a thing in our. hip pocket today which the hoodlums call the "difference." That would be the atom bomb. Anybody . with the "differ ence" on his. person does hot have to.be cuffed around by people armed,- for the moment, solely with brass knucks. . .. " ; This thing cannot string out, like an interm inable fight between dogs. No economy will support it, when the weight of ' aggression is pro vided by puppets, by hirelings, by slaves infected with indoctrination. Nor can the pleas of im potent allies for peace solve any immediate question, apart from the exposure of what Mr. Churchill used to call the soft underbelly. Guys like me say let's do whatever we have to do, now, wrong or right, but now. We are hip-deep in fancy talk and foolish policies, but in them we are and in them we stay unless we fight cur way out. This does not include the kowtow to the Chinese Reds, the Russians or to our weak-kneed conspirators for peace without honor. Nobodv in history ever satisfactorily staved off a showdown. . On Fraternities by; Bob Selijg On Campus Anyone who believes that Mary had a little lamb needn't feel sheepish about it. Dr. Mark W. Allam, associate professor of veterinary surgery v at the University of Pennsyl vania, says that little larnbs have nearly the intelligence of dogs or cats and that it's quite possible one followed Mary , even to school. A contented cow not only is a happy cow, but is more pro ductive, Dr. Allam added in an interview at a veterinarians' conference at the University.' He said the cow and other barnyard animals tinder proper circumstances learn to obey as well as dogs or cats. "It's when you get a whole bunch in a herd and treat them mechanically that they become stupid," he said. r . I believe that the fraternity system is an evil, but I have joined one. Why? Because fra ternities are a necessarry evil,- just like death and taxes. t Why are they necessary? They are necessary because most people have mediocre personjalities. They cannot run into a person on campus, say hello, shake his hand, and become his lifelong friend. They are too uninteresting to make friends easily. Some, of course, may be really fine men and womn. but introverted and with drawn. They are in the same boat as the dull ones. Such college students find that they are not making as many friendships and contacts during their college life as they should, and these are two of the most important things to be found at a college or university. A fraternity is the best answer for these students. A college campus is after all, a big place, and fraternities, can be a big help to anyone in getting to know people. v . Why, then, are fraternities evil? What's wrong with them? They encourage snobbery, unequality, discrimination, and personal abuse. Too many of the practices and activities of a fraternity are a waste of valuable time. And they may curtail the freedom and individuality of a sensitive individual . to a point which is intolerable. Why does one man get 15 bids and another none? Because he has whiter teeth and a bigger grin? Possibly, but probably not.I think the reason is that he belongs to the right family, the right religion, the right social class, and has the right amount of money.- - , . If a fraternity member is -asked to cut up paper streamers out of Kleenex for a big week end winding !and, as .a result neglects his psy chology homework, or his work-in student gov ernment, or his publications job, then he is wasting his time and .so is the .fraternity. If a fraternity man is coerced into going to the big lacrosse ma'tch at Hogwash, South Caro- lina, when he would rather be home making finger paintings or visiting his girl in Washing ton, then his freedom anet individuality are be ing curtailed. If a pledge is blackballed or a member gets a knife in the back from another fraternity man because of personal reasons,' that is per sonal abuse and a very ugly thing. There is a wide range of abuse in fraternities. Some are more enlightened than others. Some , are 'aware of the limitations and drawbacks of the system. Some are trying to -correct them. The elected head of my fraternity "disagreed with what I have written, but had no objections to my going ahead and priniting it. That is a pretty good example of fair mindedness. But too many of the evils of fraternities are part of the fraternity idea and inherent in the system. What would we do without it? I really don't know. . . ,. . Mosey in Aro with "Doc". Blodgett Forgive the early reappearance of this particular brand of tosh,' but this newspaper's Top Command has been singing the blues. Seems like the war (or what?) has snabbed off all the old and reliable staffers. Hence this sorry department appears in terms of command. The fact that "Moseyin' " exists at all is an open invitation for sharp young talent to appear at The Daily Tar Heel Now to the golden text: ' The other night we saw our friend TobySelby (it takes the student directory to reveal that he was christened Talbot R.) all rigged out in a new motif of sartorial splendor. The GI summer weight pants were simply the worse for a lot of wear, but it was the torso-drape that caught the all-out fanc Were it dairy country hereabouts, we'd be inclined to call the. thing a milking-jacket. As is, we might suspect that Toby talked this fine blue denim job off the back of a handy convict. We greeted Toby , with "Where you preachin'?" Sez Toby, "I'm preachin' the simple life. It's my theme for the duration. Winston Churchill wore his own kind of riggin' and I'm wearin' mine. Don't airn to take it off until I get good and ready." It's barely possible that Toby is out in front with a pretty good deal. He sees the American version, of "Guns Without Butter" ahead as lots of us will damnwell see it soon and he's out to practice austerity. A crack at this "simpler life" isn't altogether a bad thin to get conditioned to; We're going to need it. Friends in the faculty brackets, having holidayed in Washington with all ears to the pipe-lines, come back with predictions that Harry's administration isn't fooling about the rough stuff. It bids fair to get sprung at an earlier moment that we'd think. (Mebby Harry was practicing the "simple life," himself, when he took after that music critic.) . ;: Around the local scene, it's a cinch already that the brick layin' clan has gone all-out for the bucolic life, and we've even got the University's president peddling papers. Perhaps we could enlist- Mr. Gray's ingenuity in seeing that The 'Daily Tar Heel reaches more of its involuntary customers; your humble servant dredges out his own copy from the dirty dish department over at Maxie's. Clyde Baker (of the off -blue hybrid Packard job) has also simplified life's woebegon mechanics. Castle Rock-House out in Carrboro Downs stands no longer as trie Baker freehold. He's given it back to the Indians, front yard lake and all. Clyde now lives jn the shower room at B. This, in turn, since Clyde was landlord to yours truly, puts the "Thoreau touch" on still another human frame. The new ad dress is the Snake Pit, cozy little dive. Central spot, where the better alleys meet. Deep enough down to discourage a bomb. Riht warm, too; no windows to wash. Only trouble pow is getting organized. One blanket still in B; can't find Glyde. Other blanket stashed in Dr. White's garage; can't bust loose that far to dig it out. Razor still in a certain local lavatoire (note to lino op: don't make that "abbatoir"); made nice try, but gal was taking a bath. Other shirt still hocked in local laundry; man makes mention of cash. 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