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by Roife NeiH- by Barry Fa rber mm The official student publication of the Publications Board of the Univer sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it is published daily, except Mon day, examination and vacation periods, and during the official summer terms Entered as second class matter, at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 3, 1379 Subscription rates; mailed $4 per year. 1.50 per quarter; delivered, $6 and 2.25 per quarter. The Livespike PERSONALLY Editor . Managing Editor -Business Manager Sports Editor , ..BARRY FARBER .ROLFE NEILL JIM SCHENCK BIFF ROBERTS News Editor Society Editor. Assoc. Ed. Associate Editor.. , Adv MgT. ..Jody Levey Lit. Ed Deenie Schoeppe NatL Adv; Mgr. Bev Baylor Sub. Mgr. 2.Sue Burress Circ. . Mgr. Joe Raff F. W. White .Carolyn Reichard Donald Hogg -Wallace Pridgen Assoe. Sports Ed Tom Peacock Editorial The Bold War What this campus needs is originality. Early last Friday morning, a group of University dorm troopers did the same thing other campuses have been doing all over the country. We need some new ideas .for things to do. Research has indicated that this whole idea of garment grabbing originated in Gimbel's andor Macy's bargain base ment. It seems a shame that college men don't know the dif ference between department stores and dormitories. Psychologists have offered various reasons for the current participation in the next-to-the-skin game, but none have suggested a solution. ' It might be expedient for all women's dorms to be equipped with clotheslines to be stretched from tree to tree out front. The girls could hang their belongings on these lines, thus being saved a rude awakening every time these would-be "law students" need briefs to study late at night. Better still, the clotheslines ought to be used to string up this elementary element of the campus., The boys would soon find out that there's many a slip between Spencer and the lower quad. The place for midnight shows is in the Carolina andor Varsity Theatres. B. B. by T. Mac Long I Go PogcD OKEFENOKEE MARSUPIAL, SUPPORTED FOR PRESIDENT. Crossing New Hope Creek on the way back frorrf Charlottes ville, Virginia, where everybody was wearing an orange pin which carried a picture of the "pec-ple's Possum and the words "I GO POGO", we saw a spy gass round the bend, closely followed by Porkypine who alongside Pogo was sitting, on -the bow of "The Rameses.H The skiff also contained Al bert Alligator, fiddle in hand, Owl, Turtle, and Houn Dog with an election placard that real, "I GO POGO." They were traveling ,to the Chicago Con ventions where the . likabobble possum's name has been entered by Walt Kelly as a Presidential y Can li date. "Albert here done . paddled us ,up from Okefenokee in ole Georgia", said Pogo as he landed cn the shore. "Us done heard bout some human beans, Mistas Long and Perry, members ', of the fourth escape, who is our campaign managers here at the Univer sity and North Carolina," ' said Owl as he took sip of our Ruppert's. ' -li I :- ' We promptly pointed i to our "I GO POGO" buttons, which we had filched up at Charlottes ville. We asked if the "Murssi pialf Lobby" and Pogo would like v to follow us back to the J cam pus, t where we would go see Mista Editor and request, that he write'ol' Walt a: natural born letter to czt us " here some, "II GO'rOGC" buttons. ' " ' ' 4 ' On our way back we had trouble with Albert and his "ceegar" plus, IToim' Dod who insisted that Pogo accept ; the "calling ( - of his ; native, lane?, ittimely the U. S. and A., and ; go fourth and champagne for k his natural born Votes. : ., . Cries of "Pogo for President,, the people's Possum," and "He's, got it in the. bag," greeted the swampland mursupial and his campaing managers as we drove up Franklin Street. By the time we reached the Planetarium there . were almost 2,000 stu dents and coeds following us and it was only minutes before the whole conclave was ushered in side to talk to . Mista Editor who speaks Okefenokee also. Mista Editor exclaimed, 4Why that's great! It's got WHAMBO BAMBO! .I'll send word to ol' Kelly right away by diplomatic pouch." , Pogo offered to take the mes sage in his own natural born pouch, to: which Mista Editor agreed. Thenwe adjourned out side so that' Pogo could - meet his supporters. "If eelected, he began, "I hall be in favor of wimmin and chillun sufferage, to never impede the " flow of the . Miss issippi River, to build a new Student Onion, to keep the Missouri Mule indy-and-pen-dant, to fight Saturday and any other kind of - f classes, and to, keep up cordial foreign rela tions in accord 5 with the ; ones wez jbeeii ; having with Miz : ' Hepzibah ', ' ' . - 1 . As weldrovei the ."Marsupial, Lobby" back to-'The Rameses so that they; could continue their journey, jto' Chicago, Pogo assured us that Mista Kelly? would have our ' champagne buttons in ole Chapel Hill right I away. Al Perry working ; with T; Mac "P.T. Bridgeport"- L,on, volunteered to handle the dis tribution of the buttons. And, fellow natural born voters, let us remember Hh lit : at-" thoughj Pogo has been1 sen: with cowbirds, he certainly ' is not and never has con-siderexl bean ; a cowbird. A nice quiet fellow by the name- of Andy Gutierrez is bringing some fine movies to Chapel Hill through his Varsity theater. One of the best to be shown here is "The Man in the White Suit," a Sunday-Monday run yesterday. The lead is acted by the in comparable Alec - Guiness who develops an indestructable fiber which threatens England's tex tile industry. If you've ever seen Guiness you can imagine what happens from here. Aside from the light comedy we got a big charge out of the rather vicious digs "The Man in the White Suit" takes at capital and labor. It pictures with equal authenticity the grasping mer cantilist and the average worker lost in the labyrinth of a tex tile concern. The English movie also got big laughs with its chemistry scenes and the weird music which came with every scene that showed Guiness strange contraption which produced the indestruct able fiber. Gutierrez, who took over the old Village last spring and re christened it the Varsity, said he originally scheduled foreign films for week day fill-ins be tween Hollywood shows. He tried "Lavender Hill Mob," another Guiness production, one weekend with good box office success and now is using for eign films to start the week with when they merit it. If you'd like to spend a plea sant hour and a half with good entertainment, take in "The Man ' in the White Suit" the next time it's in Chapel Hill. The abortive raid on the coed dorms early last Friday ayem was another example of asisine student; action which hurts the name of UNC out in the state, and the rest of the country as well. ( . ; When the Men's Honor Coun cil hauls up the few accused ,in the early morning , lawn party sure to head the list is a pair of males who helped direct the entire operation from their cars equipped with two-way radios. One tailed the town po lice and reported back to the other stationed at Mclver Dormitory. Police have indicated they would seek action against the pair also if the students are not within their Federal Communi cation Commission bounds. Below you will find the first instalment of "The Bill Oatis Triat Backstage" written ex clusively for The Daily Tar Heel by Britisher John Clews, Vice President of the British Union of Students and personal friend of the Associated Press correspondent now held prisoner by the Czechoslovak communist government. Clews was in Prague during the spring of 1951 when Oatis was jailed and was subpoenaed by the Czech auth orities to bear witness for the prosecution. He managed, how ever, to stay clear of the pro ceedings. I first met John Clews in Yugoslavia last October. He was covering the Zagreb Peace Con ference for a string of British newspapers and we were in vited to tour Tito's Balkan Fort ress together. Clews can best be described as the kind of "chap who could walk through a revolving door behind you and come out ahead of you. He has traveled through more of the communist world than any other non-Marxist alive. The Iron Curtain becomes a Venetian blind when Clews gets the urge to investigate. Last summer he was sipping Chinese tea in Peking as the guest of Mao Tse Tung. Late August saw the be-spectacled Mr. Clews pitching bread crumbs to the pigeons in Moscow's Red Square. Last winter he was relaxing at a Romanian ski resort after hav ing spent a few leisurely months in Prague and Warsaw. The Great Briton never seemed to be bothered by the customary visa documents and . travel permits. In Belgrade he spent his afternoons playing chess on the terrace of the hotel while I was downtown at the American Embassy frantically slashing my way through jungles of red tape. He's as cosmopoli tan as a comet. He speaks of Singapore and. . Siberia as though they were just on the other side of Hogan's Lake. Clews, whose writings have been published by the New , York Times,' now reveals for the first time how closely the Oatis case is tied in with the International Union of Students (IUS), Moscow-controlled stu dent movement with headquar ters in Prague, Czechoslovakia. In his letter to The Daily Tar Heel from London, Clews states, "I am only sorry that my style is more suited to English con sumption than to American. However, don't you dare try to emasculate it beyond the . nor mal editorial alterations." There follows the unemasculated" ob servations of John Clews con cerning the much-publicized Oatis affair. Graduating Protest Editor: I noticed on the front page of a recent issue of the Daily Tar Heel that you quoted Emily Post as to the proper time to send out invitations. I would like to know her ad vice as to the proper thing to do "when the date shown on the invitation is wrong. Should one enclose an engraved apology for someone's stupid error? A June 2nd Graduate The invitations indicate that graduation is May 31 through June 1. Actually, graduation is May 31 through June 2. Emily could not be located at press time, so we plan to use a neatly inked correction. Editor. Off Campus i The Student' Life at Wash ington University, .has one of those wise oldjsayiiigs of Con fuxious concerning exams; He who, makes no' noise in dorm before exam makes no noise to teacher after exam. - H M Vi J . . ' J -i i ' A couple of coeds at Syra cuse University expressed grave disappointment in the college boys of the age. 'What has hap peried to the rugged outdoor man? He is no longer rugged.' iKe eats soft food, sleeps too much and considers the slightest physical exertion tod much for him. He is never outdoors, his social life Being centered around 'the parlor . . the girl must even plan to spend the evening entertaining the man, who has lost the power to take an active ? part in conversation. .r, ' 1 Knew Bill Oatis by John Clews A meeting has just ended in West Berlin out of which has arisen the new International Federation of Journalists, in opposition to the present Communist-dominated International Organization of Journalists in Prague. It is doubtful whether this meeting hit the headlines anywhere outside Germany, for little startling came of it. Little, that is, except a reconstruction of the trial of William N. Oatis. ; Bill Oatis, it will be remembered, was the Associated Press correspondent in Prague who was arrested a year ago by the Czechoslovak security police and later arraigned before a high court on "espionage" charges. These, needless to say, were "proven" to the self-satisfaction of the Czech Communists, who have now put him away in the Pankrac jail for ten years. My own interest in Bill Oatis was more than casual, since I knew him well in Prague, well enough for my own name to be dragged into the trial by. the Czech prosecutor. There are a number of facts of the case which are not well known outside a rather limited circle, and one of these is how student affairs were to affect Bill's life. I was living in Prague for several weeks before the World Student Congress met there in the summer of 1950. I arrived in July, shortly after Oatis had been assigned there to replace the former AP man, who had been declared "persona non grata" , (unacceptable person) by the Czechs. Already in July, Bill haii been having various little pin-pricks. When I met him, his nerves were none too good. He was one of those small men full of a natural nervous energy, but his condition during the whole' of those hot summer months was more than just that. He was plain jumpy. Bill told me he wanted to attend the Student Congress being ; organized in late August by the International Union of Sudents, but he was having difficulty in getting any response to his applica tion for a press pass. It might be added here that a special pass ! was needed, not only to get into the Congress hall, but even into the grounds and a tight security check was kept. ' . Bill was certainly not exaggerating the difficulties, as I found when I tried to get passes for him and Russell Jones, the UP man. In the end I got them only by cornering Joza Grohman, the Czech President of the IUS, and iusing a little loud-voiced persuasion. His scribbled signature1 on the applications did the trick and in they both came. ' ' v , ' " - ' Tomorrow Clews tells how Oatij was suddenly stripped cf his pass without, any waning or explanation. v : ; ' ' r
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