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SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1952 :o THE DAILY TAR HEEL 4r vmemem Among other amazing metamorhoses which take place annually about this time of year, is the natural phenomena of the budding politician. 'With the wafting of warm South ern breezes, pollen, birds on wing, and scents of flowers, de velops also the atmosphere of the smoke-filled room. From the conferences in Graham Memorial, Fraternity bavs, and back booths of beer joints, emerges a great horde of candidates. Particularly destressing to, The Daily Tar Heel is the touchiness of these would-be public officials! A candidate visualizes his private publicity campaign as a public service, which ought to receive undivided attention from the student body, generally through the medium of The Daily Tar HeeC The candidates seem to be bristlingly aggressive in this belief,' judging by the numbers of them who have invaded pur offices recently, with demands to print or withold from print particular pieces of information. ' They also seem to be exceedingly touchy. Whatever The Daily Tar Heel prints and whatever phrasing is accorded in formation by; whatever writer handles it, the universal cry becomes that the newspaper is slanting the news against a candidate or his party. This happens annually. Having been a candidate ourselves, we recall vividly the trembling spirit and chip-on-shoulder attitude with which we regarded our morning paper each day during a hard fought campaign. There has been one difference in past years. The top man agement of The Daily Tar Heel during the years since we have been in school has yearly selected a slate of candidates to back in elections. The candidates chosen particularly for the presidency of the student body and for the editorship of this newspaper were plugged editorially, and admittedly given prior rights on news space. - Such is not the case this year. It is certain that students working on the student newspaper will have private opinions as to the best candidates for the various offices, particularly for the office which most closely concerns them the editor ship. The two announced candidates for that office, as a matter of fact, are both editors of importance on the staff, and both have the opportunity to handle a great deal of copy. Yet both are in agreement with the editor-in-chief, that job and campaign are separate functions which must be kept separate. The policy of the paper this spring, in campus as in State elections, is one of strict neutrality. The Daily Tar Heel serves notice that candidates for political office must make news be fore they will be accorded news space; that editorially, the paper will support no platform and no candidate. Recognized columnists (regular or irregular) are as free to express their opinions on candidates as on any other sub ject always within the bounds of good taste and the libel law. This, poor newspaper will not pay for engraving the like ness of any candidate, but cuts provided by candidates will be used with news stories wherever appropriate. The new news editor of the paper, Rolf e Neill, who has no partisan interest in the coming elections, will handle political copy, and candidates should repair to him with complaints, queries, and world-shaking statements. An attempt will be made to distinguish between material of news value, and purely propagandists handouts. Adver tizing rates for political advertizing are fixed and rates are available to any candidates who wish to purchase space. Such is the policy .which will be followed this spring. We will now sit back and wait for the gripes. Ah, spring is here and the politicians have broken ' out their best ties and have taken to wearing coats in the face of warmer weather. An outsider would think tfiis was an Ivy League school with all the con servative, noncommital coats and ties floating around. The presidential race got off to an unofficial start in Aycock the other night when Ken Bar ton and Ham Horton discussed various issues at hand. The man euvering behind the scenes giv es this one all the flavor of the most heated elections of the past, both professional and am- ateur. .- e .. ' What, gets me is the dividing line between! the two parties. If it wasn't for the alphabet half , the politicians and none of the students could distinguish be tween the ' two. At present the UP is wooing the long forsaken dorms districts for votes and the dorm boys don't know just, how to take it all. At any rate, the two candi dates are about as evenly hiatch- :1&3 two could be. Both have "foetm active in student govern O r " voiicy by Rollo Taylor ' ment, both have wholesome re cords and nobody is making mud pies. This election will be the first in the last two or three years that will definitely be de cided by the party platform in stead of the individual. Since me and Costello part ed company, "I ain't up on 'his odds for this race, but at present my book stands at 8-5 in favor of UP. Odds change like the weather and as things get warm er they'll be jumping back and forth so fast that even old Frank will have a time with them. As for the Daily Tar Heel, no body has struck out at any body else but that looks like it's gonna be the hottest race of all. Everybody keeps threaten ing to run but most of them have chickened out. Could be that some people realize there is more to editing a newspaper than finding fault with the present sheet. Regardless of who is running for what, the toothpaste sales will rise about fifty per cent and : Lenior Hall will get a boost in, ; business from all the politicians who want to mingle' iwith the students. " By Joe Raff If you try to get some music on the radio in the morning, or drip something on your vest at breakfast while reading the front page of your home town journal, or even flip through The Daily Tar Heel in search of Pogo and his pals, your sure to' find yourself enveloped in a maze of abstract promises and flowery phrases. ' It certainly is not the spring air which forces the news agen cies to blossom with these mani-; fold flowery phrases. If not spring and mother, nature, then . who could it be? What unknown, force compels silent men to speak their peace and drives men who never committed themselves to anything to pro mise a better world to his fellow citizens? There could only be one answer. Yep, you' guessed it. Elections are coming. One campus party has already tacked its posters on every prominent tree and hidden cranny. . Singing com mercials are playing second fiddle to "paid political an nouncements" and trains are coursing the country bringing to every backwoodsman and city dweller the platform of the various; parties. The nation as well as our isolated campus is in preparation for the x'ing of many a ballot. The country is following our example and Eisenhower is as nervous as Barton when he thinks of all the poll-cats on election day. It's nearly time to be think ing about which candidate you want to ' hold office. Not many people do this in spite of the fact that every news bulletin, radio and television announce ment concerns the elections and the candidates who will be run ning. ' Many of US' are not of age to take part in the national elec tions, but right here on campus we have an opportunity to prime ourselves for the big job of becoming a worthy citizen, in the adult world. Our obliga tion to the government, though at present we are not permitted to act at . the polls, is to pre pare ourselves for the time when we will be choosing our leaders for national positions. We are given the right, however, to elect - our campus leaders. This should be as important to us as are the national elections to the voters of America. They too have shown an uninterested attitude in elections and the burden falls even' heavier upon us, the future voters. x So, when April 8 and 9 roll around and you believe you have thought out the problem of who you want as a represen tative or leader, take off five minutes or so to vote for your campus officers. . On Gainpus Editors iof the Wampus, humor, magazine; at 1 the "University? of Southern CJalifornia, have added a little warmth to the cold war. The cabled following message to the Moscow office of Krokodil, Soviet humor magazine l ?; j s "Our stock anti-Truman jokes running low. Hear you have in exhaustible supply. Our supply anti-Truman jokes limitless. Suggest exchange : arid publica tion. Will: run all your anti Truman, jokes! lyerbatira fo all our anti-rStalih Monies you use verbatim. , . UEADER AKD PBES3 By Their Fruits Out of four short stories con cerning thirty-two years of the life of one man, has been erect ed hundreds of monstrous theo logical structures, each competing with the other; each claiming to be the true interpreter of this many teachings. What would Christ himself think of the insti tutions that we have erected in His name? Would he say that we. have destroyed the purpose for which he lived? Can we say that after two thousand years that we have fulfilled it? We can not even agree on what it is. ' .. v It is certain that the applica tion of His teachings have not brought "Peace on earth, Good will toward Man." The world is split in two, militant camps. America seems to be turning once again, . toward isolationism and morbid conservatism. Amer ican youth has been called "the fearful , generation" by the New York Times; "grave, fatalistic, and hope-less by Time; and the "generation of jelly fish" by the Wisconsin University Cardinal. Associate Justice William Doug las said, concerning youth, in The New York Times Magazine, "Fear has driven more and more men and women in all walks of life either to silence or to the orthodox. Fear has mounted fear of losing one's job, fear of being investigated, fear" of being pilloried. This fear has stereo typed our thinking, narrowed the range of free public discussion and driven many thoughtful peo ple to despair. This fear has even invaded universities, great cita dels of our spiritual strength, and corrupted them." On campus, one columnist ask ed: "What is the use of theory if it is not applied? Such is the doom of religion on campus . . . .Attend church and you hear little more than theory. The same is true of youth groups of some churches. They are satisfied with the creed and in preserving it without liv Carry Osv Punchy (Billy) Grimes, Dally STaii ; Heel morguesman, is re-covering In the Infirmary from zag- y 10 f tfC$SA: THAW A Pint by Fred Crawford ing it." "Even so every good tree bring eth forth good fruit: but a cor rupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A . good tree cannot bring f 05th evil fruit: neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. .Wherefore by their fruits shall ye know them." Matt. 7.17-20. Can we say that the tree of our Christian faith, or of any faith, has brought forth good fruit? Or that it has not brought forth evil fruit?- Perhaps some pruning or some fertilizer is needed. First we should examine the fruits of our actions and our creeds. Sandy Bochman in the Daily Trojan suggests the "quiet time" for this purpose. He says: "The quiet time is-actually ah in trospective process probing in to one's mind and assessing and measuring against the four moral absolutes honesty, purity, un selfishness, and love one's ac tions, passions, attitudes; in short, one's self on tne ''delicate balance of one's conscious, andJeciding to conduct one's life by the de cisions during this time of medi tation." If the world is to bring forth better fruit, youth must take the responsibility for it and set the pace. If you want a better' world, the place to start is with yourself and the quiet time is a good place to start. No one man can change the world, but a team of inspired men can; and it has to start somewhere. May. each one of us this Sunday morning re-examine the fruits of our faith; may we adppt and live by a plan and purpose that will produce good fruit.. May we take care that we are not guilty of the elder generation's accusations, and may we develop and live by a fighting, inspired faith. Punchy between .-, quarters vacation. Friends on the staff , wish him a, speedy recovery. f X I k "VI II
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