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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1953 lic Jlatlu four The official student publications of the Publica tions Board of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it is published daily except bat urday, Monday, examination and vacation penoas, 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 $4 per year, $1.50 per quarter; deliver ed, $6 and $2.25 per quarter. All That Glitters . . John Taylor 'Care To Look Over Our Line, Friend?' The Opossum Editor . Managing Editor . Business Manager Sports Editor ROLFE NEILIi JOHN JAMISON JIM SCHENCK "TOM PEACOCK News Ed. . Asst. Sports Ed. Ar-soc. Ed. Sub. Mgr Circ. Mgr. Ass't. Sub. Mgr. Soc. Ed Adv. Mgr. Feature Ed. Exch. Ed. Bob Slough Vardy Buckalew Nina Gray Tom Witty Don Hogg Bill Venable Deenie Schoeppe Bob Wolfe Sally Sehindel Alice Chapman Hans Christian Andersen, which begins a three day run at the Varsity Sunday can best be summed up in a quotation from a recent Theatre Arts, "All that's Goldwyn does not glitter". For despite all the much touted pub licity on the tremendous expense and intense research for this fa ble" on the famous Danish story-teller, the result is an archly superficial extravaganza in the Hollywood tradition that leaves one with the disappoint ing afterthought that it could and should have been so much bet ter. Moss Hart's plot, such as it is, is the trumped-up and illogical tale of Anderson's trip to Cop enhagen and his subsequent one sided love for a ballerina. After the final disillusionment of this Night Editor for this issue: Dorman Cordell Big 5 For The Big 7 It looks as if sanity is going to prevail after all. , .1. . r,-,;r. .f n new conference vvitn me ioiJ.iii-i,jii . - . lw .even members of the unwieldy, antiquat- affair he returns to his native ed Soun Conference, we hope athletes village content with being mere- ea aouuiau v. -n Pmat iv n teller of tales. will regain their proper mcnc - life We believe a handy guide to atnietic Around this flimsy story Sam- sanitv was iven recently by President Gray uel Goldwyn has provided many , jTi.,th Trustee Executive Com" sumptuous, but -artificial sets, mittee about the new league. . The technics of President Gray's five sug gestions will have to be worked out by the new conference, but the presidents advice will make an excellent point of reference. "j 4 rir'c nmnnwls we par .- i, -lotnr! with the fifth one. In brilliant Roland Petit of the Bal essence it provides that sports be de-empha- lets de Paris is mfenor and essence, it pro r k nor intrl- strangely lacking m imagination, sized. And jherein0 y Fortunately this supposedly fan- cate about the machinery to r mishmosh is presented m the new conference win . j . rule if it wants to allow bowl participation; if so the conference also can say what it thinks should be done with the profits. . Presently the Southern Conference uses some of its funds to help pay travel expenses for teams in the minor sports, assuring these - teams a crack at the rest of Jeir brethren in and out of the confererce. The Daily Tar Heel hopes this will be continued m our new conference and a general atmosphere of much money but very little taste in the use of it. There is a great deal of dancing in the film and it is done with great gusto by a well-trained corps de ballet, but the choreography by the usually , J 1 17 iff i j Tin Hj j fCrSs A. Z. F. Wood Jr. beautifully mellow technicolor hues, but this is a minute virtue in the face of all the excessive faults of the film. Some of Frank Loesser's tunes, most of which are musical ver sions of the famous Andersen fairy tales, are beguiling and witty, but none is above the standard that one might expect from a two-bit musical comedy. The Washington Merry-Go-Round Drew Pearson WASHINGTON The Supreme Court decided to review a case the other day which had nothing to do with the Rosenberg-Green-glass atomic spy death sentence, but did have a great deal to do with Irving Kaufman, the judge iterence " - - wim uvmg jwauuu", j o- a ,w -thv obiect of bowl profits The best are "The King's New h sentenced them to death. It Another Z?hin Ev. clothes", "Thumbelina", and also had a at deal to do with nauu. j - j , t, rinthpc" "Thumbeima . ana would be professorial retirement mnu. - , Copenhagen. .rinnl a retirement fund, but tne benefits are niggardly. . This film contains some very '. otV,1etes is a strange casting, some of which De - commeu ha dedicated has paid off, some of which was cause to which President Gray has aemcareu mistake. The 1 1 I . WyK-V-kt '1111 1 I ( w himselt. We can tninit 01 nunt - pleased that his long-pregnant ward seems about to be delivered. Ha Columbia usually frantic Danny Kaye turns in a remarkably restrained and sincere performance. This corner shudders to think how much worse the movie would have been without him. The best scenes and' they are very good indeed are those in which he is spinning his stories for a group of won derfully animated children. Farley Granger plays, of all things, a ballet master with the startled expression of an actor who has wandered off the set of an action film and been shang haied. Jeanmaire, another recruit sex tappeal she exuded to an in cendiary degree in Carmen. There is quantity in Hans Christian Andersen, but very lit tle quality. The tiny tots will probably enjoy it, and their par ents will find it relaxing if noth ing else. But those people who go to the film expecting the en joyment that the combination of talent here assembled should produce will be greatly disap pointed. 7 i The time has come for the University to play follow the leader. Columbia University, acting on the spur of a student referendum which approved by two to one, will withdraw university recog nition from any organization required by na i ji.rrimitiatp in its mem- tional regulations lj uuv.""""- aawu. jcaumout, 'hershiD on a racial or religious basis. Target from the Bauets de Paris, is an 1 . . . . rr-Apr m nve v.,iiarm9 Vint without the Ante for thlS aCtlOn IS 1" w.- o -- cajjciv """ . sufficient time for revision of the naional constitutions of groups which would be at fected by the ban. Although the National InterFraternity Conference adopted a resolution opposing such a moye, there is a growing feeling -throughout the country that fraternal dis crimination should cease. Last year the na tional fraternity confab took the position that "any attempt to restrict or regulate the right of a college fraternity to choose its own members was an inadvisable interference with tu. TiVht nf free association. A clause in the national constitution of " a fraternity that prescribes racial or religious barriers is in itself "restricting and regulat ing" the right of chapters to choose their own members. No one quarrels with the right of free association, but it ought to operate both ways. Some of the national constitutions affected bv an order such as Columbia's were written a long time ago and do not actually repre sent the wish and feeling of a majority of the chapters now. Official action by the Uni versity of North Carolina can supply some pressure to get needed revision that might otherwise be allowed to lag behind through mere inertia. i Carolina already has two social fraterni ' ties Pi Lambda Phi'and St. Anthony, which have no such discriminatory clauses. Others, Phi Delta Theta perhaps, will work for re moval of the bias restrictions at their national conventions. The Daily Tar Heel does not believe a social organization should be required to ad mit any individual at any given time After 'all, fraternity membership is not a civil right. But, no such organization should be obliged to exclude a person on racial or religious grounds. To do so is to nuture the bias our colleges are trying to outgrow. one of the greatest perennial problems of the nation's capital keeping track of lobbyists. The story is more colorful than that of the atomic spies and not so sordid. It goes back to a period just before Pearl Harbor when a gen ial gentleman wearing a broad-KT-Jmrnrl hat with onlv a few dollars in his pocket came up from Texas, leaving hind a none too savory reputation. After on ly six years in Washington, this columnist found him on a first name basis with various Sena tors. A heavy speculator on the Chicago commodity market, the owner of 7,000 acres of cotton land around Granger, Texas, 1, 800 acres and 700 cattle near San Antonio, plus a 531-acre farm near Poolesville, Md. The gentleman in question is ebullient, back-slapping, fast -talking Ralph Moore, whose met eoric rise as a capital lobbyist il lustrates how a man With a hap py smile, a ball-bearing tongue and plenty of gall can roll up a fortune overnight. His career also illustrates how a smart op erator could manipulate the com modity market when millions in Europe were starving. Moore is delightfully frank about his career. Visited in his converted office building at 1707 N Street, the gentleman from Texas sat against a backdrop of mounted longhorns, handsome paintings and "ornate gray-green draperies. "I never have to bribe any body," he bragged. "It's a bad practice. I just show them how to make a little mony. If you give a man $500 or $1,000 he feels like he owes you something and that you are trying to bribe him. But if you just show him how to make money, he doesn't feel like he owes you anything. That's what I do with my con tacts. That's what I would do with you if I trusted you." Asked whether he handled the grain speculations of any Sena tors, Moore said that he did not, but that several of them had speculated and usually operated through Bache & Co. in Wash ington, or Harriss & Vose in New York. "Making money is easy," con tinued Moore, "if you know what the market is going to do. I'll make you some money right away and it won't cost you a dime, if you'll go easy on me. But I'm afraid of you. I'm afraid you might put it in the paper. If I could only trust you. I could make you quite a few thousand dollars in a hurry." There came a time when the genial gentleman from Texas did not feel quite so expansive to ward this columnist, in fact there came a time when Ralph sent word he was going "to chnnt that, so-and-so Pearson" if w he kept on digging into his com modity - market speculation on behalf of Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma. This was about the time Judge Kaufman entered the picture. Irving Kaufman was not a judge then. He was a rather green, hard - working, conscientious young attorney who had come down from New York on the somewhat thankless job of en forcing the new lobbying regis tration act. That act had just been put on the books as a result of influence peddlers who flocked to Wash ington during the lush days of the new deal, preying both on unsuspecting businessmen and unsuspecting senators. Finally Congress decided that while there was no way to abolish lobbying, it was only fair to make all lobbyists register, so the public would know who they were. This was in accord with the foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires attorneys and representatives for foreign em bassies to register so the public may identify them. Kaufman grabbed hold of the Ralph Moore case with gusto, when it was placed before him, and made it the first test of the new lobbying act. Also partly as a result, young Irving Kaufman was appointed to the U.S. district court in New York where fate later handed him the difficult atom spy case in which for the first time in American history a death sen tence was given for treason. The opossum is a member of the phylum chor data and the family mammalia. Not only that, it is a marsupial. It is peculiar, to South America and theUnited States 1 and is the only marsupial found outside Australia. The opossum looks rather ratty. It has a white angelic face, gray fur, and a long, naked, grabby tail The tail is very useful for the opossum likes to climb around in trees and hang by its tail from a limb. 2 The opossum is partial to night-life, 3 during which time it hunts, eats, and makes more little opossums. An opossum will eat almost anythmg in God's green earth but it is especially fond of good ripe corn and big fat chickens. For this reason farmers combine business with pleasure and get a big bang out of blowing an opossum's head off. 4 The opossum used to fool hunters by playing opos sum but the hunters soon wised up and started hunting with dogs The dogs aren't fooled. Marsupially speaking the opossum is king.5 It is the most promiscuously, prolifically procreative of them all. It has more litters per year than any other mammal and more per litter than most. There are between 10 and 20 every small opossums per lit ter. When the opossums are born they aren't much to look at.6 They are no longer than a . half inch and what there is of them is very ugly and slimy. Momma opossum hasn't got much of a job, for she hasn't got any placenta to worry about and the lit tle ones automatically crawl into her abdominal pouch somehow where each will attach himself to one of momma's mammary glands like a bull-ter-rior to your leg. Then when the little opossums get cocky enough or when momma runs dry, they come out and wander around a bit. Opossums never have more than fifteen mammary glands8 and sometimes a litter will number more than fifteen. In this case somebody's going to get left out. It's usually the weakest or the slowest and there's nothing else for them to do but die.9 I do not know how the mother opossum gets the dead ones out of her pouch. I feel fairly certain, however, that she does. The opossum was so named by the Indians who used to run this country three or four centuries back. . 1 The South American opossums have pretty well kept their place, however, and there is no stip- ulation for them in thei McCarran Act. v 2 When doing so. the, opossum gives the impres sion of meditation. Don't let him fool you. He's sleeping. N 3 Their eyes loot like it. They are red-rimmed. 4 Some of the poorer farmers used to eat the opossum, but he doesn'J taste very good, and, unlike the racoon, the coat isn't any good; so what else can you do but just blow their heads off? 5 More accurately: the opossum is queen. 6 Come to think of it, neither are people. The opossums improve with growth. 7 But if something scares them they jump right back in again. 8 Then, they never have less than fifteen either. 9 There's your red-blooded American competi tion. The opossum need have no fear of McCarthy. The Eye Of The Horse Roger Will Coe . THAT WAV. UOCi ton I?lrICT L DC I 1 BK, M THl$XG80N TYA0 CALLED GOODIUCKS IZUNNINI'WHEN IT VftcMwA YOU NEEDY MPTMOOS Aze rco ctzuce .ysu 5Wouu 4 AW OH TM CAN ! JU51 MT YE&, I can, V BASIC law eAYayzuro. PAU I SOT A YOUHAYEAOCON'&TiTUgNCy-. . A J THE VOTES WWIU& Ivor iki ol'i viii wppp nawihzs i kkiiv i 18&T&&yHE.nTH6Y FIT MYf&WgP OFF M0PL WATS IMJ A PARLIAMENTARY PPINT 1 THAT CAN HOT BEOVmoOKBP. !T.1 two vww--r. n AH PROMISES TO BEAT VOJ J IN A VERY GENNULMANLf WAV, TAR A- LEGOFF ON ACCOUNT OF, BEFD BECAME- A-au-P, slUJ-MANtrr ) SOFF ON fr lEFO'AH .r-LAPV-) Y j-o-i c' .y-ej . AH WERE BROUGHT- UPAS 4 -ro BREAK ANTV GAL'S BONES, (-'HE'S SO WAfC-SO ST&ONK- C A arm m r jt a. - m 3s X - ("The horse sees imperfectly, magnifying some things, minimizing others . . . " Hipporotis; circa 500 B. C.) THE HORSE was suddenly walking at my side near the Planetarium. He had been away from me a few days. "Hello," he said. A hiccup defeated his attempt at casualness. He tried again. "How are you?' ' Better than The Horse, obviously. My eyes were not bloodshot, my knees didn't buckle, I didn't look hunted. "Jealous," he murmured. "I forsook this litho sphere, rocketed through the atmosphere, zoomed through the troposphere, blazed through the strat osphere, and cropped azure grasses on the slopes of Mount Helicon with my old buddy, Pegasus. Romping with Pegasus, Steed of the Muse!" What I'd heard and how he looked, it seemed more likely he had been romping with the mead of the stews than the Steed of the Muse. However, it was nice to have him back. "Got to get to work," The Horse said, suddenly kicking up great divots of Moreheadian lawn. He paused, peered intently at the divots, and gouted up some more. "No chernozem,", he said. "Simply not a bit of chernozem. Loud, sing cuckoo!" I thought some explanation was in order? "What crass ignorance," The Horse chittered, his velvety lips exposing king-size piano keys of teeth. "You do not know that 'chernozem' is the scientific word for 'black earth?' It is a Russian word, and the approved text-book term." I wondered what Joe McCarthy would think? "What makes you believe he thinks?" The Horse snorted. He kicked up some more divots ere ceas ing. "Alas and welladay! Nothing but Reddish Brown Podzolic! The Mayor of Carrboro is not go ing to like this." Nor did I like it. Why not speak English? "And have everybody know what I am talking about?" The Horse horse-laughed. "How naive of you, Roger! Don't you know that this radical sug gestion of yours would turn four-year college courses into three years, or less? Look how many wouiu nave to go to work, then? I mean. , -.-j cjvj tu num. tunreiea nimseit hastily, "how many would be ul oul ot wor-' And if all students knew what you were talking about, and thus got A's and B's, where would The Curve be? Flat. Flat on its . . . Curve." Still, I didn't think graduates could make much use of those terms unless they were speaking reg ularly with foreigners. ?Ye?Tle Jhn says we have two-hundred fifty-eight foreigners on the faculty alone," The (See Horse, page 6)
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