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THE DAILY TAR HEEL FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1952
TiMMETT THOMPSON
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The official student publication of the Publications Board of the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill," where it is published daily
except Saturday, Monday, examination and vacation periods, and dur
ing the official summer terms. Entered as second class matter at the
post office in Chapel Hill, N. C; under the act of March 3, 1879. Sub
scription rates mailed $4 per year, $1.50 per quarter; delivered, $6 and
$2.25 per quarter.
Editor
Managing Editor
Business Manager
Sports Editor
News Ed. "Bob Slough
Sub. Mgr. Carolyn Reichard
Ass't. Sub. Mgr. Delaine Bradsher
Office Mgr. Buzzy Shull
ADVERTISING STAFF Buzzy Shull, Buddy Harper, Eleanor Saunders,
Judy Taylor, Bozy Sugg, Nancy Perryman.
NEWS STAFF Bob Slough, John Jamison, Punchy (Billy) Grimes,
Louis Kraar, Jerry Reece, Tom Parramore, Alice Chapman, Dixon Wal
lace, Tony Burke, Jennie Lynn, Tish Rodman, Tom Neal Jr., Jane Car
ter, Sally Schindel.
SPORTS STAFF Vandy Buckalew, Paul Cheney, Melvin Lang, Everett
Parker, Charlie Dunn.
Night Editor for this issue: Biff
Exchange SEC For VSEP
Memorial Hall crammed holds 2,000, less than half the
student population. .
That means only a minority of students has been allowed
to enjoy the student financed Student Entertainment Commit
tee's selections ever.
Perhaps you were one of those who enjoyed the Festival
of Song program last night, the Fred Waring engineered pro
duction. Or you might have been a student, like your editor,
who was unable to see the show- because of other activities.
While there is real hdpe of securing a new armory-auditorium,
such an enlarged structure would not be ready for
years. While we wait, The Daily Tar Heel asks that a new
policy for bringing high-salaried and highly entertaining pro
grams be adopted a voluntary, payas-you-want policy.
Let a committee be formed now to investigate how private
but student-led ventures are successful in other schools in this
area. '
The level of program material has sunk in the last two
years, chiefly because of budget cuts. And there's not much
hope for budget increases in the future. A voluntary program
would increase student interest, and at the same time give
those students who are really interested in a particular program
a chance to see it. If such a program was effected on a sub
scription basis, a permanent committee could arrange to have
the performer stay tor two nights, depending on the amount
of subscriptions or advance sales for tickets.
The present setup is unfair to a large amount of students.
It hits the pocketbooks of all when all cannot possibly get
the benefit of their investments. Schools in this vicinity, Duke
among them, have a better variety of talent under the subscrip
tion arrangement.
The Daily Tar Heel asks President Ham Horton to set
up a committee to investigate a voluntary Student Entertain
ment Program-
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to have the finest privilege on campus
to partake in the most satisfying of all extracurriculars
to enhance your future
to enrich your Carolina life.
Staff old, new interested meeting, Sunday, 3 p.m. in the
Daily Tar Heel office.
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Over Now
To change a class from one
hour to another is not too dif
ficult if you have had navigation,
celestial and instrument, logic,
track, and for coordination, swim
ming. To locate South Building is the
easiest of all the many and varied
requirements .Your adviser will
keep you waiting about half an
hour, but that's common practice.
After giving all your very valid
reasons for wanting to change the
class and hearing all the folklore
on the subject in return, you will
finally receive permission to have
the class in question changed if;
and here begins the line of."ifs".
IF Dean Spruill's secretary is
not too busy to fill out a drop
and add request, you may get
through to Archer House. But it
will seem that half the campus
is in line ahead of you at the
isecretary's desk, each with a life
history to exchange for a form,
with three copies, including car
bons, attached, that will permit
you to change the class.
JF you aren't already late for
the class you should have been
attending, and have two hours
free, then trot (no one walks)
over to Archer House and get in
that line. If you've read all the
books and magazines lying
around, and conversation is dull,
you might try to think of a theme
due either in the next hour or ,
next day. But this isn't recom
mended for it uses energy that
will be useful later. i
When your turn comes, present
your slips meekly and hope the
filing system is somewhat
straightened and that the clerk
will be able to find the right file.
This is important as I've heard of
students who end up taking sub-,
jects they've never even heard
of, just because of some filing
error like looking under "di" to
"dt'' instead of under "dy" to
"dz", the student being so tired
and beat that he gave up and
took whatever was offered juat
to end the ordeal. But if you'ie
lucky she will return with a card
and you're all fixed up except
for missing those couple of class
es one of which you are dropping
anyway. But if you're the rule
instead of the exception, if you're
not the one in ten, then you're
just beginning and the battle is
(before you.
IF the clerk smiles and seems
"terribly sorry but no-can-do",
run, run like hell, for once she
suggests that you see the depart
ment concerned, you have only
two choices. Etiher you are a
coward and give up or you have
" gone too far to retreat and raising
your collection of slips before you
as a shield, you move onward out
the door into the fray.
To change or not to change is
no longer the question, but rather
whether you or any student, com
mercial, scholarship, or on the
GI Bill can weather the storm cf
protests forthcoming from some
waiting member of the faculty.
That the person you are to see
has been forewarned by Archer
House is the only logical expla
nation for the reception waiting
for you when you so walk into
the entanglement laid for stu
N dents impudent enough to think
that they cari change fate in the
guise of "predetermined classes".
F the department concerned
is English, then speak French.
This gives you a little time to re
:connoiter and thereby have a
better chance to group your re
torts. Of course the chance that
the person so addressed speaks
French also is present, but so
few of one department will en
croach on the lines of another
that the chance is small and worth
taking. If the department is
French, speak German; if the
department is German and you
wish to take Russian, speak Rus
sian but this is the only excep
tion. They have a kindredship for
anyone who voluntarily attempts
this language, and too, apparently
they need students.
Take advantage of all open
ings to show your contempt for
the classes offered by other de
partments and stress how much
you NEED and LOVE this depart
ment. To mention this depart
ment's subject as a major has
some advantage but the disad
vantages usually outweigh them
as the department will expect you
to make at least a "C" and prob
ably will look up your record and
see a couple of fat "Fs" and ig
nore hte fact that you are taking
this department's courses in or
der to eradicate the "Fs' or at
least modify them. So steer clear
of "major" if possible. Of course
circumstances alter the case, and
if you are majoring in this sub-
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
WASHINGTON Pentagon re
cords show that Sen. Joe McCar
thy is not the only politician to
receive a decoration some time
after the end of a war. Filed m
the archives of the Army is a
citation dated June 3, 1919 sev
en months after the armistice as
compared wiht nine years after
world war II for McCarthy awar
ding Patrick J. Hurley a silver
star.
" Hurley, who became Secretary
of War and twice candidate for
senator from New Mexico, re
ceived this medal under interes
ting circumstances. In fact, the
wording of the award in itself is
interesting. It states that the me
dal is given for:
"Voluntarily making a recon
naissance under heavy fire on
Nov. 11, 1918."
Nov. 11, 1918, as everyone
knows, was the day World War I
ended. And about one hour be
fore the end, when there was no
"heavy fire," here is what hap
pened to Pat Hurley, as told by
Col. Wilbur Rogers of the 77th
Field Artillery, 3rd Division.
Rogers said that he was station
ed 2,000 yards behind the front
line when Lt. Col. Hurley and
!Col. St. John Greble both mem
bers of the Judge Advocate Gen
eral's office, came up from the
rear en route to the front.
ject they'll probably know it al
ready. After you've argued, using the
term in its vulgarest sense, try
nore the fact that you are taking
vmaking out by tactfully bringing
up WHY you are there and in
sinuating that you have classes to
attend. This usually brings the
contest to a close with some de
cision. Whether you win or lose is
much determined by your at
titude and aggressiveness, tem
pered by the reception of course.
But in any event, you will have
learned the first lesson any edu
cational institute has to teach:
TO ERR IS HUMAN, BUT
YOU'LL BE SORRY.
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"I wondered what two mem
bers of the Judge Advocate Gen
eral's office were doing up there
and stopped them," Colonel Rog
ers recalls. "I told them the war
was about over and that no one
Was wanted up there, especially
Army lawyers. In fact, we had
instructions to keep sightseers
away.
"However, Hurley insisted on
going forward," says Rogers, "lie
wanted to see the end of the big
show."
And seven months later, he
got cited for "gallantry in action
for voluntarily making a recon
naissance under heavy fire on
Nov. 11, 1918."
- No wonder the Third Division
Association to whom Hurley ap
plied for membership refused to
accept the ex-Secretary of War.
Senator McCarthy certainly
deserved his medal more than
Hurley, and more than Maj. Gen.
Harry Vaughan deserved the va
rious medals handed him by Dic
tator Peron and other foreign
governments merely because he
Was the President's military aide.
Because of the many queries
received by this column regard
ing McCarthy's medal especially
since some veterans have been
mailing their medals to the Sen
ator here are the- exact facts
about the McCarthy award as ob
tained from official sources:
1. The Navy declined to give
Senator McCarthy the Purple
Heart for alleged wounds in ac
tion. The refusal was based on the
iact that McCarthy was not
wounded, but incurred a slight
injury to his foot while being in-
itiated by "King Neptune" in a
bit of horseplay aboard the Navy
Seaplane Tender Chandeleur as
the ship crossed the equator. Mc
Carthy was climbing down a lad
der with a bucket tied to his an
kle during the shellback initia
tion, when he slipped and broke a
bone in his foot.
McCarthy has stated that he
carried "ten pounds of shrapnel"
in his leg. But he was never
wounded and the Navy so found
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(Editor's note: In answer to
queries about the convicted Ros
enberg Atom .bomb spy team, we
reprint excerpts from The New
Leader's article, "The. Rosenberg
Case: 'Hate-America' Weapon"
by Lucy S. Dawidowicz.)
Communist ' organizations all
over the world are directing pro
tests to President Truman on be
half of Ethel and Julius Rosen
berg, convicted on March, 30,
,1951, and sentenced to death for
participating in an espionage ring
that- passed atomic secrets to)
iRussia. After the failure of sev
eral appeals, their execution has
been scheduled for next week.
The Communist press has re
ported the receipt of protests
from AlkChina Federation of La
bor, from Pietro Nenni ("speak
ing for millions of democratic
Italians"), from Jacques Duclos
and L'Humanite, from Commun
ists and fellow-travelers in Eng
land, Belgium, Trieste and Japan,
and even from 5,000 East Ger
mans who voted "to demand the
liberation of the .persecuted cou
ple who are victims of Washing
ton's war hysteria." The Vienna
Peace Congress last week featur
ed the Rosenberg case.
The Rosenberg protests are
when. they refused him the Pur
ple Heart.
2. The Distinguished Flying -Cross,
when awarded by the Navy
during the early part of the war,
was given only for rare and he
roic action under fire. However,
the Navy found that the Army
Air Corps was handing out Hy
ing crosses at a rate of 100 to 1
compared with the Navy, so, on
Dec. 18, 1944, the' Navy decided
to award the flying cross auto
matically to any man who had
flown on 20 air missions.
3. McCarthy asked to be mus
tered out of the Marines in Oc
tober, 1944 even though the
pacific war was at its peak. Ear
lier he had got a leave of absence
to run against Senator Wiley of
Wisconsin though it was against
the regulations to run for office
while on active duty. Defeated
iby Wiley, McCarthy then wanted
to run again for a judgeship. So
finally the Marines discharged
him, and it was at about this
time that McCarthy first applied
for a flying cross.
In sending in his application he
stated "as an officer and a gen
tleman" that he had -participated
in 32 air missions.
However, when Marine Corps
headquarters processed the ap
plication in Washington, it was
jioted in McCarthy's file that he
had Iflown only in 9 missions.
Therefore his application was re
fused. 4. Last year, McCarthy reap
plied for his medal, and through
some of his friends in the Marine
Corps, got the application on Ilia
desk of Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Floberg, who ok'd it. Flo
berg is a former member of the
Chicago Tribune law firm, a pa
'per vigorously supporting Mc
Carthy. This was in August, 1952.
For some unexplained reason,
however, the award was held up
until just the other day. Just
why it was signed in 1952 when
refused in 1944, and just why it
was held up from August until
December remains a mystery.
Naval officials would give no ex
planation. OtflPUNNO
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part of international Commun
ism's anti-American campaign.
The Rosenberg case has super
seded the Willie McG-ee case in
the Communist war against
America: First it was the Negro
es, now the Jews. This so-called
"defense" of the Rosenbergs serv
es only one purpose to intensify
the "hate America'' campaign
throughout the world.
The Communists demand
the Rosenberg's "liberation."
They insist on "equal justice" for
their "innocent" clients. They
charge that anti-Semitism and
race prejudice dominated the
court proceedings. The trial is
a "judicial outrage" an "uncivil
ized action" and a blot on Amer
ican justice."
The irrelevance of such slogans
to the facts is incredible. The
fact that the Rosenbergs received
a fair trial was confirmed by the
Supreme Court and toy the Am
erican Civil Liberties Union, an
organization that has been quite
frank on many other occasions
in criticising U.S. courts. The
evidence presented at the trial
was so cumulative that addition
al testimony by more prosecution
witnesses was rendered super
fluous. The defendants were prov
en guilty beyond the slightest
doubt of being spies for Soviet
Russia And finally, the . Rosen
bergs' legal counsel has never
pressed any of the fantastic charg
es of the Rosenberg propaganda
apparatus.
The proper description of the
Rosenberg campaign is blackmail
The Rosenbergs are hostages for
whom the Communists have lit
tle concern. Knowing that the
United States will not submit to
such blackmail, the operators of
the campaign are cold-bloodedly
sure of their success; hate for
America and death for the Rosen
bergs, who know a great deal
about Soviet espionage which
they have thus far withheld.
Many arguments have been ad
vanced by nonCommunists here
as to why the death sentence
should be commuted. They say:
-Klaus Fuchs was sentenced to a
mere 14 years; the espionage was
committed for a country which
was then our ally; death is too
severe. However, Fuchs received
the maximum sentence under
English law and, in the end, co
operated with the British Govern
ment. Further, our law does not
differentiate espionage 'for an
ally or for an enemy, and the
Rosenbergs continued their spy
ing into the cold war. Finally,
only the Rosenbergs and their
friend Morton Sobell, among the
spies who were caught, refused
to assist in uncovering further
espionage rings. And let us re
member that the purpose of a
death penalty is to serve as a de
terrent to the future commission
of a serious crime.
Unless one is a principled op
ponent of capital punishment ( for
Goering and Slansky and Rosen
berg), there seems to be only one
valid reason why anti-Communists
should have any interest in
commutation of the Rosenbergs'
death sentence. Once the Rosen
bergs' are dead, their knowledge
of the several Soviet espoinage
rings in this country dies with
them. 'Although there is no rea
son to be sanguine about either
of these two hard-core Commun
ists' breaking down chance exists.
Whether a demonstration of
Communist propaganda power in
achieving communtation would
improve that chance is another
matter.
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