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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1953
mt Jailg Mux
The of ficiaL student publications of the Publica
tions Board of the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, where it is published daily except Sat
urday, Monday, 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 aot of March 3, 1879. Subscription
rates mailed 34 per year, $1.50 per quarter; deliver
ed, $S and $2.25 per quarter.
Editor
Managing Editor .
Business Manager
Sports Editor
ROUTE NEILL
JOHN JAMISON
JIM SCHENCK
. TOM PEACOCK
News Ed.
Assoc. Ed.
Sub. Mgr
Circ. Mgr.
Ass't. Sub. Mgr.
Soc. Ed
Adv. Mgr.
Feature Ed.
Exch. Ed.
Bob Slough
-Nina Gray
Tom Witty
Don Hogg
Bill Venable
. Deenie Schoeppe
Bob Wolfe
Sally Schindel
Alice Chapman
NEWS STAFF Louis Kraar, Ken Sanford, Richard
Creed, Joyce Adams, Jennie Lynn, J. D. Wright,
Jess Nettles.
SPORTS STAFF John Hussey, Sherwood Smith,
Eddie Starnes.
EDITORIAL STAFF A. Z. F. Wood Jr., John Gib
son, Dan Duke, Bill O'Sullivan, Ed Yoder, Ron
Levin, Norman Jarrard.
PHOTOGRAPHERS
street.
Cornell Wright, Bill Stone-
Night Editor for this issue: Dorman Cordell
Be There
An opportunity to understand the United
Nations is open toVudents as the University's
own Model General Assembly convenes this
'afternoon. Students of this decade, because
the world and its problems are their problems,
should not fail to comprehend what the UN
stands for and how it operates.
With all its complexity, the United Na
tions funcions to resolve today's issues, not, as
Bismarck said, "by blood and steel," but by
words and rational action.
The assertion has been made that "we have
not given peace a chance." We are vulnerable
to the charge to a great extent because we
did not keep faith with President Wilson and
his League of Nations after World War I.
Now the UN offers peace a chance. And,
in turn, the campus model Assembly offers
the UN a chance. It is a privilege no intelli
gent individual should forfeit.
The Mustard Seed
University students hold strategic places in
all of the world's nations. They are important
because their ideas soon will guide these
'countries; what they believe will be their
nations' beliefs.
Tuesday your vote will help decide which
political views are going to live in the lands
which the Cold War is being fought for. For
the foreign individual your vote may mean
whether he will have freedom of choice, or
freedom to follow or suffer. Tuesday is the
day the campus must decide whether it wants
to remain a member of the National Student
Association (NSA).
The international ideology battle we have
referred to is but one of five areas in the
scope of the National Student Association's
activities. However, in our estimation it is
the most imporant, for if it wasn't the foreign
opposition wouldn't spend such enormous
sums to defeat the program put forth by this
country's student group.
Statebents by many of the United Stae's
leaders attest to the effectiveness of Che Na
tional Student Association in combatting
Communist youth movements abroad. Such
personalities as President Eisenhower, Elea
nor Roosevelt, and Harold Stassen have rec
ognized NSA's role in thwarting Red youth
designs in the Far East and the Southern
Hemisphere.
Much has been said about the National
Student Association on this campus, but lit
tle of it has contained the clarity necessary
to explain NSA to the individual. The org
anizational facts on it:
An infant, the National Student As
sociation was begun only six years ago.
It acts as a catalyst for student opinion of
member schools (about 300) and repre
sents that opinion in conferences both
in this country and abroad. The group
operates five programs: student govern
ment, student affairs, educational affairs,
international affairs, and travel.
' Its budget of about $500,000 a year
comes from grants, travel payments and
dues. The dues are used exclusively to
finance the affairs of the national office
and supplemented by an annual grant
of $35 from the publisher of the Phil
adelphia Bulletin (NSA's national head
quarters are here.)
Carolina's dues to the organization
are $125 a year. That is all it pays.
The role of the National Student Associa
tion has been hard work; its reward lias been
success. We must not let its achievebents for
the world, indeed for us, go by default. Vote
Tuesday to keep NSA.
The Earthworm
A. Z.F. Wood Jr.
The earthworm is a segmented
worm of the phylum Annelida.
They like temperate climates and
have a particular aversion to
light They usually are not much
more than ten inches long, but
in Africa they've been known to
be four or five feet long.l
Earthworms like to eat leaves
and other vegetation and they
have very muscular gizzards
which grind up the food into lit
tle bitty bits.2
Earthworms don't move very
fast. They have no legs, in the
strict sense of the. word; they
have lots of little bristles and
they sort of hump along, each
segment doing its share in the
good old American way. In win
ter, or during drought, earth
worms don't move at all: they
hibernate.3
Earthworms are hermaphro
dites, but they are not quite self
sufficient. They exchange sperm
cells and eggs with each other as
an everyday natural thing like
buying a tube of toothpaste and
it's all quite jolly and cliquish
in the Annelida phylum. It would
appear, however, that the earth
worms derive very little pleasure
from their reproductive activi
ties.4 There have been ugly rumours
about the earthworm to the ef
fect that when (or if) cut in two,
each half will regenerate its
missing part. Now, this is only
partially true. If you cut an
earthworm right in the middle,
the front part will grow another
tail and will survive, but the
back part will not grow another
head, rather it will grow another
tail. It is rather difficult to sur
vive with two tails and no head.5
For one thing, the earthworm
can't eat. You can, however, cut
off just a couple of segments of
the front part 6 and the worm
will regenerate, but if you cut off
more than fifteen segments, the
regenerated head will be deform
ed. The reason for this is that the
worm's reproductive organs are
somewhere between the fifteenth
and nineteenth segment, counting
from the front.7
Earthworms do not hear or see
and they breathe through their
skin. The make up for this lack
of senses (aesthetic and other
wise) by burrowing. They burrow
and burrow and burrow and they
make holes in the ground and the
roots of plants breathe better and
grow better and the farmers just
think they're simply wonderful.
1 They've got everything in
Africa.
2 They grind it up so fine that
their blood isn't even red.
3 Just like bears, raccoons,
chipmunks, skunks, frogs, lady
bugs, crocodiles, and rattlesnakes.
4 Neither do they' have
Oedipus complexes, sex crimes,
and neuroses.
'Hey -Here I Am"
5 This holds true for most of
the rest of the animal kingdom.
6 It may be hard for you to
tell the difference between the
front and the back of an earth
worm, but an earthworm can tell
every time.
7 If you're really good, you
can get a whole mess of earth
worms, graft them together, and
come out with one big long earthworm.
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The Washington Merry-Go-Round d rew Pearson
WASHINGTON For years it
has been a White House custom
to publish the names of presi
dential callers. This is done on
the theory that American people
have a right to know who talks
to or tries to influence the most
important personage in the na
tion. However, the White House has
declined to make public the golf
ing partners of the President
except for an occasional senator
such as Taft on the ground that
Ike's golfing partners would be
hounded by lobbyists who would
try to influence the President
through his golfing partners.
Actually, those who golf or visit
with the President in Augusta or
at the Burning Tree Club in
Washington can vitally influence
national policy.
For instance, William Faricy,
astute, charming President of the
Association of American Rail
roads, visited with Ike at Burning
Tree recently. Faricy, one of the
ablest and most personable rep
resentatives of big business in
the capital, is anxious to block
construction of the St. Lawrence
seaway because of its competi
tion with the railroads. ,
Every President of the United
States, so far, has been for, the
St. Lawrence project. So have
such top republicans as Dewey
and Taft. However, Burning Tree
golfer Faricy apparently per
formed miracles.
For, after talking with him,
Ike told Senator Wiley of Wis
consin that he was opposed to
the seaway. Futhermore, he used
all the arguments of the rail
roads against the seaway. Wiley,
who used to be council for the
Milwaukee Railroad when Faricy
was counsel for the Northwest
ern, recognized the arguments
immediately.
Wiley is ' a staunch advocate
of the project which would con
nect the Great Lakes with the
Atlantic Ocean. Uninfluenced by
the President, he proceeded with
his St. Lawrence hearings.
Later the President changed
his mind. He did not do so, how
ever, until after the news leaked
of his visit with persuasive rail
roadman Faricy at the Burning
Tree Country Club. After the
leak Ike reversed himself, lined
up with other Presidents of the
United States for the seaway.
Another problem worrying Re
publicans is the new trademark
which the Democrats are clever
ly conspiring to pin on Ike's ad
ministration namely "The
Giveaway Administration."
Democratic leaders are already
preparing a list of so-caled
"giveaways" upon" which they
will ring all the changes. Here
!are some of them: .
Synthetic Rubber Plants
These were built at a cost of
millions of dollars after Japan
cut off rubber from the Malays
and Indonesia. Now, with the
Communists staging a new drive
into French Indo-China on the
borders of this same rubber area,
the administration is insisting!
on selling these rubber factories
for about 15 cents on the dollar.
Synthetic Oil From Coal Plant
This experimental laboratory
at Louisiana, Mo., for making oil
out of coal, cost the government
$75,000,000. However, the oil lob
bies are opposed, .and Secretary
of the Interior McKay plans to
sell it to private industry for
a song.
Tidelands Oil Revenue from
this wealthy oil area would bring
several minions annually into
the treasury, help balance the
budget. Democrats plan to list
the heavy oil-company contribu:
tions to Ike's campaign chest to
show that this is a political pay
off not in the national interest.
Public Lands Western sena
tors are already talking about
giving the public lands held by
the federal government to each
state.
Ducks and Salmon The firing
of Albert M. Day, head of the
Wildlife and Fisheries Bureau,
at the behest of certain private
game-preserve, owners will be
shown by the Democrats as a -move
to benefit the wealthy few
who can afford game-hunting
reservations.
Power Dams This may turn
out to be the biggest giveaway
of all. If the plan goes through
to turn government power over
to private utilities, Democrats
will show that the billions of
dollars invested in the dams by
the taxpayers will actually bene
fit the private utilities. For all
appropriations have just been cut
out of the budget for building
government power lines. This
leaves REA cooperatives pretty
much out in the cold and the
private utilities in a monopoly
position to use the power.
So the new Democratic slogan
will be: "Republicans didn't be
lieve in Santa Claus when Roose
velt and Truman were helping
the underprivileged of the na
tion. Now they believe in Santa
Claus for their own friends."
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Melodrama: While We
Cash Our Checks
Dan Duke
Friday, May 1st. Except for increased bank activ
ity which always occurs around the first of the
month this is a normal Friday morning.
All over campus, students are busy some in
classes, some sweating out quizzes (and regretting,
last night), some planning beach trips, some already
on their way. Some are even studying or planning
to attend or participate in the model UN Assembly.
Otherwise, it's just a normal day on campus.
But while all this is going on, some two hundred
fifty thousand babies for the first time are making
their formal debut into the world.
In Chapel Hill, Sydney, or London, the grand
entrance into life is not so bad. But in Shanghai,
Kabul, or New Delhi, the entrance is not a very
pleasant one. For these individuals are introduced
into societies exploited by time, history, and swarm
ing populations; into societies of miserable destitu
tion and disease; into societies of beggers, whores,
and thieves.
Consider these facts, for example, which I pass
on to you from the recent UN student symposium
held in New York:
Fact: In India, 25 of babies die at birth. Only
50 live to see 20.
Fact: The people of the world enjoy an average
income of only about $80 a year.
Fact: Six-tenths of the two billion population of
the world are working for others and are turning
over to these landowners an average of 95 then
crop yields.
Fact: One-half of the men and women of the
world are totally illiterate.
So severe is the poverty and hunger, and conse
quently the need to resort to begging in India, for
example, that frequently parents will deliberately
maim their children perhaps gouging out an eye
or distorting a face so that the children will be
more effective and have more appeal as beggars.
Yet the UN in New York which, excluding its
independent agencies, operates on a budget of only
fifty-five million dollars a year or about one-sixth
what New York City pays each year for garbage,
sewage, and general sanitary maintenance is play
ing a sizable role in alleviating the health, economic,
and political problems of the world.
In the model UN Assembly on campus today and
tomorrow, students of North Carolina's Greater Uni
versity will have a chance to "play" at the problems
that plague the world.
Why not attend and participate? It's true that the
problems of the world have not bothered our child
ren yet but a plague, by definition, is always con
tagious! i
Jam Session
Louis Kraar
Fraternity Court is usually the scene of quite a
few wines,, women and songs on a German's week
end. But when Ray Anthony's crooner sits in on
your jam session, it's an innovation and a half.
It was a balmy Saturday night, after a day filled
with great music featuring Dorsey, both versions,
Ray Anthony and Kay Kyser. The couples were
streaming in the houses.
We were grouped around the piano at the Pi
Lam house trying to make louder sounds with our
music than the rest could make 'with their voices.
Campus hepster Ron Levin was blowing some very
frantic trumpet and Walt Dear was pounding the
piano.
It's funny the way you sort of run down the same
list of old favorites when you're playing music
with friends. We had just reached the "When The
Saints Go Marching In" stage, undoubtedly inspired
by the day's concert.
A young fellow with dark hair flowed in with
the tide of people and someone asked him to sing.
He saxd he would sing if we'd get him a chair Not
knowing what to do and not having a singer, we got
him a chair. He stood in it and sang.
Starting with some dreamy ballad jthat we had
never hea-d but liked the first time, the young sing
er hushed the noisy crowd down almost to silence
They liked to hear the kid sing.
A half dozen songs later, we had all become pret
ty friendly. And gregarious trumpeteer Levin was
practically ordering the singer around when.it came
to choosing songs.
An up-tempo chorus of "All Of Me" ended the
session. And our guest singer drifted out the door
almost as quickly as he had arrived
atle! SiDg Pretty WeU " Said someone
"You said it," I agreed.
"You know that Tommy Mercer was sure swell
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Sponsored by a number of or"aniJ It Op
portunities for work and servfce ve YP"
communities from the east coast Und m
in countries overseas. t0 the West and
Several Carolina student oi
Plans made for investing their sut
projects. For example Stuart t m service
YMCA treasurer, is SinI tn V ' ly elected
Ecumenical Work Camo n t0 WOrk in
sored by the Wort I SSS"o?SS V' Sp0n"
numerous others. UncU of Churches. There are
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you are interested in investi ". !f e? "
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