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1 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1953 mc -path far Jicci The official 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 act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates mailed 34 per year, $1.50 per quarter; deliver ed, $6 and $2.25 per quarter. Well, It's A Change From Sawing People In Half Editor . Managing Editor . Business Manager Sports Editor ROLFE 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 Cornell Wright, Bill Stone street. - Night Editor for this issue: Dorman Cordell . Greeks On Trial Greek Week is an excellent idea which is not realizing its potential. It suffers from a lack of enthusiasm by participants at every stage: Organizers, fraternity membership as a whole, and the pledges involved. It is regard ed by many as a bastard plan which is produc ing poor actives and giving initiates noth ing to look forward to nor look back on. Old er fraternity men degrade Greek Week before the pledges, harking back to the pleasantries of Hell Week. This indifference can be cured if fraterni ties are willing to get off their haunches. If the Inter Fraternity Council will exert the leadership it's supposed to, Greek Week will begin to assume the stature it must have be fore it can show a truly favorable return for fraternities. We are not minimizing the original task it took to sell Greek Week to fraternities. What we are pointing out is that the selling job started, not ended there. This year's Greek Week program was a fluke, first of all, because it was poorly plan ned and executed. Its publicity chairman failed on his job and moreover Greek Week was held as the Inter Fraternity Council was changing its leadership. The stunt night, which should be a campus-wide attraction, was raw in material and showed the haste with which the skits were put together. How ever, one would not expect pledges to pre sent much of a show wThen many of the fra ternity men don't bother to attend. ' The Daily Tar Heel would like to see the chairman for the 1954 Greek Week program appointed now. Give him a couple of assist ants who will be around the following year so that they will know where the program needs to be bostered. It should be self evident that the sooner we start readying for next year the more successful it will be. Greek Week must be made attractive for the pledges. A well-known speaker, perhaps on the national scale, should be called in for the final night's banquet and a fraternity sorority ball could be held after the banquet. (Minnesota has both these features and a whoppingly successful Greek Week.) Fraternity advisers and the faculty Fraternity-Sorority Committee should be asked to as sist in preparing the Greek Week schedule. Generally their ideas have not been solicited. Finally, pledges should be indoctrinated with the purpose of Greek Week. And this in doctrination should begin not on the day be fore Greek Week starts but all during the Fall and Winter in pledge training. ; Let's put the Greeks into Greek Week. To Repeat ' The Daily Tar Heel won't go deeply into the matter again. Rather we'd like to remind the student body: The role of the National Student Associa tion has been hard work; its reward has been success. We must not let its achievements for th world, indeed for us, go by default. Vote today to keep NSA. Free and Interesting ' Humphrey Bogart and gold are a good com bination, but throw in the penetrating mind of Dr. Reuben Hill and you have a delightful evening. All of this is available tonight free at the showing of "Treasure of Sierra Madre" in Gerrard Hall. The movie is the final one in a series of films this quarter by the YMCA and Hillel Foundation. After each film, a Un iversity professor leads a discussion and an alyzes why characters acted as they did. It's really quite fascinating. Y.ut ought to go, and as we said: it's free and it's interesting-. Ramble English Club- On one of the rambles in which I frequently indulge during the element weeks of May I happened into Pine's Coffee House, over against Lenoir Hall. There I ob served three persons in close con ference, and upon approaching found them to be my old friends Bill Listless, Peter Plaint, and the admirable Sir Godfrey Wise. As we laid our heads together in the amicable conversation in which we so often indulged I asked the subject of today's dis cussion. I was informed that they had been disputing the merits of the local scribblers who do print their works three times a year. Bill .was little interested in the talk for he had never seen the journal of which they spoke; he is an apprentice for a trade and cannot read. The gentleman on his right, Peter Plaint, was hold ing forth, condemning roundly the false wit with which the Gra ham hacks assail their readers. We listened to the endless charges which he made: too nar row, uninteresting, pompous, erudite, corrupt. "Have you," I asked him, "ever read this Q : LY of which you speak so severely?" With that he col ored and stared intently at the floor; an action which I under stood as a negative reply. Noting that these last remarks had plunged the table into silence I made bold to ask my friend Sir Godfrey what had occasioned this topic of debate. He replied that Parliament today was holding a referendum, the purpose of which was to decide whether funds should be provided by the Ex chequer, or whether the scrib blers should be left to starve and their magazine to perish. "You see," he explained, "this is a poor town for writers, and there are few who will support their ef forts; fewer still who buy their magazine. They must have money to continue. "Of course we do not always find great writing there, but the Q LY has the potentiality of greatness. I was just explaining to cousins Bill and Peter that the few pounds which Parliament considers granting is a small price for a journal . which will present the best writings of our town. The price seems smaller still when we consider that with out these, funds the Q LY must close its doors forever. "Consider that this magazine is the only organ where our citizens may print their works. If it goes, creative expression in our town may atrophy and die. In the fu ture1' they have, promised to reach all of our citizens, and to make their journal less expensive. Since this is known to be a liberal and artistic town, I think we should ardently support our struggling writers." Bill Listless and Peter Plaint showed signs of interest, and seemed to meditate upon . Sir Godfrey's words. I too was deep ly affected by his remarks and pledged support for this worthy cause. Being one of those privil eged to vote in our elections, I stopped at Gerrard Hall and cast my ballot in favor of the present bill. I then retired to my apart ment, pleased with my day's ac tivities for I had not planned to vote at all. Yr mst Obt, Hmbl & Devtd Srvt, PHILOQUARTUS r'? w c?? mirth-:r K?k e Ax. -4- ' rAffXA i-'Wv. ai- izbs: 1.-- .K- one- wAi(M6ro rost-ce The Washington AAerry-Go-Round Drew Pearson WASHINGTON Most meteoric career in Washington continues to be that of Lt. Col. Gordon Moore, brother in law of the President. Lady Luck was not too kind to him a year ago. Then almost broke, heconsidered selling his house. During that hard-luck pe riod, Moore was hired three times an dfired twice within six months as the political prospects of his famous brother in law ebbed and flowed. But today Lady Luck smiles graciously. Today the retired colonel has been able to invest $25,000 in a once-bankrupt air line of which he has become vice president. On top of this, he has set up a company of whis own which lends money to small air lines. The latter concern, Air Transit Servilces Inc., located at 1122 16th St. here, acts as a sort of money-changer for nonscheduled airlines. Most of them fly military passengers and freight for the government. And what Moore does is borrow -money from American Security and Trust, then turn round and lend money to the nonskids until they can collect from the slow-paying gov ernment. Strictly speaking this makes him a one percenter, since that's the percentage he keeps for him self. ' Colonel Moore-s most interest ing business venture, however, was his investment of $25,000 in U. S. Airlines. Last fall this line had four DC-3's, only one of which could get off the ground. It's in surance had been canceled, its bank account overdrawn, the sheriff was about to hammer on the door, and the Civil Aero nautics board, having canceled permission to fly military passen gers, was threatening to revoke its certificate of operation alto gether. Stock in thecompany was then selling for 12 cents. Thereupon entered Ike's brother in law. Immediately the stock began to zoom, sold for 36 cents a share one week after Col onel Moore became an executive, .today is slling for 70 cents. Other important factors also As Others See Us Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. Grover Cleveland. The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand, the vote that shakes the turret of the land. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. Daniel Webster. Had enough? Vote Republican. Karl Melvin Frost. He cast his vote, distrusting all the elected but not the law. Karl Jay Shapiro. We don't give a hoot. Carolina Student Body. contributed. One of these was the dynamic reorganization ability of Moore's live wire partner, Fred Miller. Another was the financial backing of Gearhart and Otis, New York investment firm which bought in U. S. Airlines' liabili ties of $1,400,000 for $750,000. Another was the ability of Col onel Moore to help persuade Civil Aeronautics to reinstate U. S. Airlines certificate and allow it back in the business of transport ing Army personnel. In fairness it should be noted that Colonel Moore didn't do the talking befor CAB. But he tagged along and stood conspiciously in the background. Ordinarily the CAB drags out these appeals and jumps at any chance to squeeze a small airline out of business. In the case of U. S. Airlines, how ever, the CAB couldn't move fast enough t ohelp put it back on its feet. It also should be noted that U. S. Airlines, after refinancing and reorganizing, was entitled to a break with the CAB. This agen cy has been tough on some of the nonsked lines. Therefore, if the president's brother in law was able to cut CAB red tape for this small line, it may set a helpful precedent for others. Note Moore's office wall is covered with a galaxy of photos, showing various stages of Ike's career, the Eisenhowers and the Mores together, plus a huge oil painting of the President in Ar my uniform. Lige the tutographed photos of famed five percenter Col. Jim Hunt, wh owas investi gated by Republicans, Moore's collection doesn't hurt him with prospective customers. In THE HEART OF NEW YORK IS THE LITTLE KNOWN! SLOBBOVIAN COLONY, WHERE HOMESICK SLOBBOVIANS HAVE RE-CREATED THE CHARM OF THEIR NATIVES LAND. - V-,i;v:'IiJ; - J1 fcKiv- -w W Lte3l I UOOKfT-A ladder from my 11 I he's bringing a Yah haintgoin .; ; h fCy fetfgJZ boy frent-pop ivan the: boy FREjT who ) OUT WIP NO rT1MA SAILORT- HIS BOTTl.ESHIPf WANTS TO MITT SAILORS. C 0 FrT : VS HESPERUS! IS SLOBBOVIAN f SLOBBOVIAN -just nvj,nteh v in iWmfer If ,, r ' f WF MflMF Y -. -JT7 VsI S IT1NG NEW A GORL.T-1 GOT JV ONES rr r- -!S '--IVrooMS-yrtfii goi.r AT LAST V lMSCT fi YO RKN I K.r r-ft IT A Bi-INDXi - -ff J ?B jj BpoLT0 QR1X ij s-. ' pf ATORy 1 - 7 objection, if toaauto welcome a siew member, p.-M&Wte$ should vftll xead an qccouxX TV -7, fyy(7 1 mis mm ml cor. objection sustained.. WgLCOMto THE CLUB, A Quotable Quote -Norman Jarrard- Those who read A.Z.F. Wood's column know that Earnest Hemingway's "Green Hills of Africa" is back in print. Those who read this column proba bly expected that I would get around to reviewing it sooner or later. I don't want to say much about it because I want to save the space for something else It is Hemingway's best plotted full-length book and"its all true to boot. Its purpose is modest: "I'd like to try to write something about the country and the animals and what it's like to some one who knows nothing about it." ' What I want to do is to quote a short and a long sentence from the book. A. Z., old top, it's practical ly straight out of "Moby Dick: "If you serve time for society, democracy, and other things quite young, and declining any further enlistment make yourself responsible only to yourself, you exchange the pleasant, comforting stench bf comrades for some thing you can never feel in any other way than by yourself. That something I cannot yet define com pletely but the feeling comes when you write well and truly of something and know impersonally you have written in that way and those who are paid to read it and report on it do not like the subject so they say it is all a fake, yet you know its value absolutely; or when you do something which people do not consider a serious occupation and yet you know, truly, that it is as important and has always been as important as all the things that are in fash ion, and when, on the sea, you are alone with it and know that this Gulf Stream you are living with, knowing, learning about, and loving, has moved, as it moves, since before man, and that it has gone by the shoreline of that long, beautiful, unhappy island since before Columbus sighted it and that the things you find out about it, and those that have always lived in it are permanent and of value because that stream will flow, as it has flowed, after the Indians, after the Spaniards, after the British, after the Americans and after all the Cubans and all the sys tems of governments, the richness, the poverty, the martyrodom, the sacrifice and the venality and the cruelty are all gone as the high-piled scow of gar bage, bright-colored, white-flecked, ill-smelling, now tilted on its side, spills off its load' into the blue water, turning it a pale green to a depth of four or five fathoms as the load spreads across the sur face, the sinkable part going down and the flotsam of palm fronds, corks, bottles, and used electric light globes, ... a well-inflated dog, the occasional rat, the no-longer distinguished cat; all this well shepherded by the boats of the garbage pickers who pluck their prizes with long poles, as interested, as intelligent, an das accurate as historians; they have the viewpoint; the stream, with no visible flow, tak es five loads of this a day when things are going well in La Babana and in ten miles along the coast it is as clear and blue and unimpressed as it was ever before the tug hauled out the scow; and the palm fronds of our victories, the worn light bulbs of our discoveries and the empty condoms of our loves float with no significance against one single, lasting thing the stream." Sierra Madre Treasure Herb Cohn The YMCA and Hillel Foundation will close out their Film Forum series tonight in Gerrard Hall at 7:15 with "Treasure of Sierra Madre." Dr. Reuben Hill of the Sociology Department will lead the dis cussion following this outstanding movie. Greed is seldom treated in the movies with the frank and ironic contempt that is vividly manifested toward it in "Treasure of Sierra Madre." And cer tainly the big stars of the movies are rarely exposed in such cruel light as that which is thrown on Hum phrey Bogart. But the fact that this drama tran gresses convention in that respect is a token of the originality and maturity that you can expect of it. Taking a story of three vagrants on "the beach" m Mexico who pool their scratchy resources and go hunting for gold in the desolate hills, John Huston, the director, has shaped a searching drama of the collision of civilizations vicious greeds with the in stinct for self-preservation in an environment where all the barriers are sown and, by charting the moods of his prospectors after they have hit a vein of gold, he has done a superb illumination of basic charac teristics of men. One might imagine that he has filmed an intentional comment here upon the irony of avarice m individuals and nations today But don't think that this will distract your at tention from this most vivid and excitinj action moment Z ffc and eIectric the moment the three prospectors start into the Mexi can mountains, infested with bandiS and beasts "idreahem y-Snd an & filmed in Mexico .hlL of" "f " Most shocking to th auor ever, will likelv L vera2e movie-goer, how- greed. Physically morallv G qnaWinS of acter goes' to T appearance of him, before a counV nf f fmal knock him off in a manner rVmg bandits one to which few 1 " ?5 f Prme ism, is Boart's co & "mf -s. Mr. his performance in this mm 5 I knowled2e that has ever done equally w 15PCrhaps the best he academy AwaTerLmae Queen." m Tho African stay or Ita taSSSK 7:15' H be pleasantly surprised to S S . how' 5 0u TCiu Dr. Eeuben Hm mor" ZvT