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The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday. October 15, 1952 Page Two - Barry Farber Personally "Just Pot Luck, You Know" Harry Snook aiip mu. -...... nhiinfinn nt tti of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, where It Is published dally, except Monday, examination and 'vacation periods, and during the offic al summer terms Entered as second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill. N. C.. under the act of March 3. 1879. Subscription rates mailed $4 per year, $1.50 per quarter: delivered. $6 and $255 per quarter. Mitor Managing Editor Business Manager Sports Editor Assoc. Ed. Assoc. Ed. Sub. Mar. . Ass't. Sub. Mgr. Natl. Adv. Mgr .Bev Baylor Sue Burress ...Carolyn Reichard . Delaine Bradsher Wallace Pridgen Advertising Staff Buzzy Shull. Joyce Night Editor for this issue: Rolfe Neill News Staff Bob Slough. John Jamison, Punchy (Billy) Grimes, Louis Kraar, Jerry Reece. Tom Parramore. Alice Chapman. Mike Soper. Ted Kemp, Dixon Wallace, Tony Burke, Jennie Lynn. Sports Staff Vardy Buckalew, Eddie Starnes, Paul -Cheney. - Society Staff Peggy Jean Goode, Janie Photographers Cornell Wright, Bill Stonestreet. Ruffin Woody. Should We Change? College campuses all over the nation have been search ing for a sane, equitable, humane, and workable system of fraternity rushing since the first Greek letter society erected its sacred portals back in the dim 1800's. As yet, nobody has been able to evolve a solution which meets with the satisfac tion of -all parties concerned freshman, fraternities, admin istration, and the campus at large. A study of the rushing systems practiced in American universities shows three fundamental categories or styles used to place puzzled freshmen safely, soundly, and happily within their chosen circle. Perhaps the most primitive design in the "immediate rush" program or "Meet-them-at-the-train-and-carry-thei?-bags-straight-to-dear-old-Kappa-Phlegm." The neophyte stum bles off to his first class with a pledge brooch already sparkling his breast. A less extreme system is the "protracted-rush" plan which allows the newcomer a stipulated period of immunity from the glad-handers (and vice-versa) while he explores his en vironment, sizes up the fraternity system as a whole, and then goes into formal rushing., backed" by something more than just a naive urge to go greek. A third method, the deferred-rush, calls for an even longer interval between matriculation and the pledge vow plus ful fillment by the rushee of a designated high academic average. Usually the freshman is not permitted to pledge until he has been at school at least one semester (or quarter). We feel that our rushing system at Carolina, though a far cry from perfection, approaches a rational "middle-of-the-road" implementation. Nobody here has recommended a return to the "immediate-rush" technique. Those agitating for a deferred-rush program to be moved up into the second quarter claim the pledge would thereby 'have more time to orient himself and develop sounder study habits before being absorbed into the social swirl of fraternity life. We contend that this ideal, however noble it may be, is unlikely to be realized merely by a prolonged estrangement of the freshman from the greeks. We reject the notion that a pledge's study habits are sacrificed on the beer keg the mo ment he affiliates himself with a fraternity. Most fraternities at Carolina enforce rigid study hours on their pledge class and encourage active participation in extra-curricula activi ties. Conversely, a delay in fall rushing would not result in the nocturnal overcrowding of the library with freshman who had no frat function to attend. A boy can be slothful and lax with or without a pledge pin. The records fail to show a marked discrepancy between the grades of freshmen who pledge in the fall and those who remain independent. Although we would be considerably more amenable to a delay of the rush program than to an advancement, we believe a radical change in our methodology would be un productive, unrealistic, and not actually in the best interests of the freshman which such a move purports to benefit. I' I2 1 I4 Wf i4 r i8 w? r i" , - 2l L Tj-. y-r, -2.j 26 27 2S 2? W 21 ! tlZ.IJZIIII SS SG 57 null11 HP 41 42 4- 45 - 49 50 51 !LZZi;ZZI5ZZZ H 1 iH 1 r&Frrti HORIZONTAL 44. lifeless 1. stiffly proper 46. Slavs and neat 49. masculine name 52. single unit 53. imprison 54. wing-shaped 55. small mass 56. formerly 57. slight ' depression 5. auction 9. female hog 12. Finnish poem 13. once more 14. Anglo Saxon money 15. incites 16. more charming 18. devastated 20. afflictions 21. large serpent 23. Mohammedan princes 26. 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For over two years we have pitched the bodies of American boys like sandbags into the scattered dikes of Ko rea to check the flood of Com munism in Asia. We've dealt out billion dollar checks to kill Communism in Greece, France, Turkey, and Indonesia. Yet we remain too hypnotised by a fallacy-ridden concept of "free dom" to pass a simple law in Congress to substitute the pick axe for the powderpuff on the Communist Party here at home. For the last two decades we have slept in our ringside seats during the tragic demonstration of what happens when a demo cratic nation allows parties com mitted to its destruction to hide and flourish behind constitu tional rights until the enemy is flashed the green signal from within. Who in pre-war Nor way would have dared suggest that Parliament pass a law against Vidkun Quisling and his handful of black-shirted follow ers? Nobody; until April. 1940, twhen the "harmless little mal content" had Norway seasoned, sliced, and ready for serving on Hitler's banquet board. What Frenchman was not brimming with indignation over "violation of historic rights" in '39 when a cabinet minister moved to uproot pro-Nazi ele ments at work throughout France? Nothing was done. Everybody in Paris was brag ging about "democracy in ac tion" until a sobbing general, surrender papers in hand, tiptoed into a railroad car at Compeigne behind Von Ribben trop. What happened to Po land? Has anybody seen Czech oslovakia lately? How many more nations have to be eclipsed behind the Red Star before we admit that a Communist nursed and tolerated at home in the name of freedom is like a boa constrictor turned loose in a kindergarten during "Be Nice to Nature" week? There is no clause in our great galaxy of freedoms which guar antees sanctuary to a group pledged to destroy those free doms. The existence of an ac tive Communist Party in the United States is a mockery of the system whose real purpose is to protect all political fac tions representing diverse points of view not avowed conspiracies working against the framework which protects the others. It pains the sincere liberal to think of surpressing an organi zation which poses (quite suc cessfully) as just another mino rity political party. Sincerity, however, is no excuse for stupi dity. Any doubts as to the im perialistic aims of world Com munism can be dispelled by the public statements of Lenin, Stalin, Malenkov, Browder, Dennis, and Gates who proclaim, in short, "Capitalism's gotta go." And the "peaceful means" rou tine that was so dear to Karl Mark has been replaced by cor roding subversion, the coup d' etat, and the sneak attack. Opponents of the outlaw ac tion claim that such a move . would only drive the Communist Party under ground where it would be even more dangerous. The Marxist movement is and always has been operating large ly beneath the surface. A Con gressional ban would enable the FBI to take off the wraps and smoke out the hard Com munist core with federal in dictments instead of merely snooping and compiling dossiers on known party leaders until the atomic secrets are safely east of the Elbe. Tolerance becomes suicide in the face of half a million com rades massed north of the Yalu River. Not even the most naive and enthusiastic believer in poli tical freedom could plead the moral legality of the Communist Party or be deluded by its hol low pretense of functioning solely within the structure of ry -1 SS .r. a ' :fi : J-.'. - i -3 .- - jr. - "iw ip Drew The Washington Merry-Go-Round WASHINGTO N Poli tical notes from around the na tion The Democrats have had to do some quick house-mending. Sen. Bill Fullbright of Arkansas has been summoned to Springfield to smooth the ruffled feeling of various dems who feel they've been slighted. Adlai hasn't had" a" chance to hold everyone's hand. Sens. Lister Hill of Alabama and Clin ton Anderson of New Mexico are helping stroke down the ruffled fur . . . One rupture broke out in Florida when se date Sen.- Spessard Holland, Democrat, threatened to bolt to Eisenhower, even though he led southern spokesmen in Chicago in pledging allegiance to the party. What happened was that Holland was sitting on his hands; so ex-Sen. Claude Pepper, not hing the political vacuum, walked in and began to fill in. Pepper's work for Stevenson began to build an organization which might dominate the state . . . some dems at Springfield figure they could save a lot of money if they just closed down Demo cratic National Headquarters in Washington. The entire cam paign is being run from Spring field. Wilson Wyatt, not Stephen Mitchell, is the mastermind. ALONG THE ROUTE OF THE TRUMAN TRAIN Colo rado is still considered a Re publican state despite Tru man's recent whistle-stop at every hamlet along the Denver and Rio Grande R.R. . . . The fact that Ike spent nine weeks in Denver is hard to overcome, though he wasn't any great help to his own political leaders. Dur ing Ike's entire stay, he didn't once talk to the Republican state chairman, the Republican national committeemen or the Republican state central com mittee. Fishing, bridge and con ferences with the National GOP occupied most of his time ... Ike will sneak in a bridge game the American government. A healthy clash of opinion and ideology is desirable and im perative. But anybody who wants to cut my throat has to sharpen his own razor. CWoCKtE.? -SOU'VE GOT TTt ZDDV AACT All TUE K WAV BECAUSE rj-L If INSULT ANYONE WHO GIVES WOUA IS." IBfcWw OFF IN TUB MIP6T OF Sf& .1 " ivTW,5T:M New an' Pearson whenever he gets a chance, also hasn't lost his taste for "west erns." . . . Truman got squawks from local Democrats about the way the government was treat ing Colorado uranium miners. Joe Williams, candidate for Governor and State Sen. Stephen McNichols complain that ura nium miners can sell their ore to only two mills, United States Vanadium Corp... and the Vana dium Corporation of America, which won't let miners follow their ore through the mills to see if it's properly assayed. DEWEY AND IK E Full story of Tom Dewey's private session with the General before the latter's endorsement of Mc Carthy is gradually leaking out. Dewey has kept completely in the background, but in this case had a three-hour session with Ike in New York, begged him to shun McCarthy. His rea sons were that Ike would lose the independent vote, alienate far more people than he would win. Dewey told how he had gone to Illinois in 1948 against his better judgment to endorse Gov. Dwight Green and ex-Sen. Curley Brooks, two Chicago Tribune isolationists. It hurt him materially . . . Eisenhower listened attentively, finally agreed to cold-shoulder Mc Carthy ... It is now nown that Arthur Summerfield, plus Sena tors Ferguson of Michigan and Hickehlfooper of Iowa, with Tom Coleman, McCarthy's campaign manager, conferred at the hotel Washington next day, then flew to Ike's train in the midwest, got him to reverse his pledge to Dewey . . . Ike came onto the press car of this train later to tell newsmen that McCarthy had not persuaded him to omit two paragraphs from his speech praising Gen. George Marshall. But what actually happened was that chairman Summerfield, knowing that the praise of General Marshall was in the Milwaukee speech and figuring it would be considered a slap at McCarthy, sneaked McCarthy up a service elevator of the Pere Marquette Hotel at Peoria to Ike's suite. There McCarthy TmfGS- if JPSPBMiNTS pogo'5 s&fzy UPP MAY IN AHGJ? IT AIN'T so uau&hin ibk; 4 T9 S . V "vje'Gor I liTl aunnv J ll2i5ll ' -AND YOU'iU. HAVE If OH, X TO TAKE THE ST THAMK S BLAME-BECAUSE ) GOODNESS , YOU DOATT&ARE k. IT'S f?SEAJ- I'M AT y&k VOU !f HR.rr- N ON Ken Myers accuses Nonplus of false statements about campus courts. In his attemt to set the record straight with "simple facts," he has set a record of his own. "The Council operates by a set codification of offenses and penalties, and an established procedure is used to try all cases," Ken said. Tain't true, bub. Check the re cords and you'll find great variance in the penalties im posed for identical offenses! Dig all you please, but you'll find no formal list of offenses and penalties. Listen to a few spools of wire recordings of trials, then try to reconcile what you've heard, with a standard procedure. "The Council browbeats no one- into not telling about his appearance before it," you said. .Wrong again, son. Many stu dents, including me, have been handed a summons and cau tioned to keep the matter quiet. We were told in an unmistakable manner that we would fare much better if we played ball with the court's desire. "Any person accused ... is allowed to have anyone speak on his behalf," you said. "A member of the Council . . . can not speak on anyone's behalf." Bad try, bub. The summons itself plainly says the accused can have "assistance by a mem ber of the Council." In my own case and in those of others who have given me details of theirs, the only counsel allowed is by one of the Council members. And the Council has persistently refused to allow outside repres entation. If there's been a sud den change in this or any of For the first time in years, people are asking us why they should be "loyal" to our party. This is distinctly embarrasing to us, and so I have been asked to answer this question once and for all. It is quite simple. You should vote for the Northern Democrats because your grandfather voted for them. Some subversive stu dents of History have been spreading it around that the positions of the two parties have changed within the past 70 years; that the Hubert Humph-ries-Lehman-ADA wing of the Democratic party today is as vindictive and warped as Thaddeus Stevens and his re construction Republicans ever were. I consider this very un kind. Another malicious slander is that instead of considering what our grandfathers would think of us, we should consider what our grandchildren will think of us. This is completely invalid. The fact that your congress men and Senators have been voting with these Republicans against their Northern Demo cratic brothers ever since we begged Ike not to praise Mars hall at Milwaukee. The General finally concurred, struck out the two paragraphs . . . After the Milwaukee speech was all over, McCarthy groused privately that the General hadn't been cordial to him. Aa ilm Mil -r r?J Aipm t 7W A 0 tfifcrrfcff CANT ulr Why Be Loyal Br VAS'M. IT COME QUICKLY.'.' IS ME.. NO DROP THAT r' DOUBT BOUT i-, TRUNK.'' J PLUS these policies, it's been kept a deep, dark secret like every thing the Council does. You are a debater, and it shows in the tricks you use. I'm referring to your statement that the Faculty Council "to this day" has not overruled the Men's Council. As you ought to know, the Student Council until just recently has reviewed Men's Council decisions and re versed 'em. The Faculty Coun cil hardly has had time to sit down at its new job. Again you evade the issue when you say the Council has jurisdiction over students only when they're in Chapel Hill. But even if you're exonerated of a crime in Indo-China while on summer vacation, you are still subject to trial for it by the Council when you return to school. ' You really outdid yourself, Ken, in the attempt to refute something I didn't say. The black mark of a conviction may disappear from the transcript (and I never said i didn't) but it stays on the permanent re cord. You admitted that in your article. Now, bub, you've made a per sonal issue out of this. How do you get off charging me with "false statements, misinforma tion, utter ignorance?" And you on the Men's Coun cil! After the sample of your in accuracy and devious methods, students should shudder when they consider the kind of "jus tice" you would mete out in secrecy. Your intentions are probably pure, but your judg ment is poor. began introducing socialistic measures, has nothing to do with it, and can only confuse the issue. Besides, if you will only re main loyal to us and stay "in the bag" we can ignore you and concentrate on making promises to the minority bloc votes and the pressure groups. We ap preciate your being so acquie scent in the past, because for that reason we never have to nominate a Southerner for Pres ident, and don't even have to bother about campaigning in the South. Now, we've heard that many Ahinking Southerners want this to be changed; however this doesn't worry us because we know most of you won't think. We hope you'll remain loyal so you can still be our scrapegoat. We pay you well. We pay you well to forget your idelas of liberty and free enterprise and the Constitution and honor-even-in-government. You back ward Southerners don't seem to realize that these ideals are passed. So you will hear a great deal from us about how well we have paid you, by grants in aid and huge projects and higher incomes in inflated money, and how you can af ford to forget every election what we have done to you be tween elections. So don't let me hear any more of you asking why should we be loyal. Caio TZBE'MOtM&O&T EXPEDITION! 77UTlM6PArPJf. PASCAL A3 GrA Arpjeop&rAroM y ?ZAK IT P0Wf. AS JCT-BP IIS M ' AH'D LIKE T' DROP FASTER." IT-OFFAC-IFF'.'' ) FASTER ,r BUT AH DASSENT. A poppA MAH WIFE'S p-W NEEDS FUTURE IS F ( vTiVr I
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