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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 7, 153 " ; Calling The Roll When the roll was called out yonder the University Party wasn't there. "Out yonder" is; Ohio State at Colum bus, where the annual gathering of the Na tional Student Association clan was held this Summer. Carolina incidentally, which has furnished two presidents to the group, inT eluding the outgoing one, has had a tough time maintaining membership in NSA and even went to the point of a referendum last Spring to see if the students wanted to hang on. The students voted that they did. When convention time came in August Carolina sent five delegates. But the dele gates were all from one party the Student Party, This probably delighted the SP since it is the leading exponent here of the Nation al Student Association. However, we hope the University Party, which sent nary a man, and jt was supposed to send three, will be more leniently dispos ed toward NSA this year. We hope it will not strain itself belittling the organization, par ticularly since it failed to send delegates to really see what the National Student Associa tion is all about. We Must Atone A Carolina professor has struck a stroke for internationalism. i Dr. John P. Gillin, professor of anthro pology and research professor in the Institute for Social Science is the author of a phamplet, "Politics in Latin America in 1952." The pamphlet is put out by a branch of the For eign Service. This is not all; another stroke is imminent the publication by Dr. Gillin of a forth coming book, "The Culture of Politics in Latin America." The pamphlet is the first chapter of this book. With the continued success of the United Nations, a wind is rising about World Fed eralism. Some have felt it; some have not. If such a government by world law grows out of this mid-century maelstrom (and we don't have the slightest idea whether it will or will not) it will be constructed about a frame work of international ideas. Books like Dr. Gillin's, while perhaps having nothing to do directly with world government structures, at least serve to give us an insight into the trials of our sister nations. Most of the world federalists tell us that the only good ideas in history have been those which are universal. It is a-point well taken, if we judge these ideas by their endurance. While we may not all approve of the accept ance of international, universal ideas, we are positively to be condemned for not trying to understand them. Every contribution like Dr. Gillin's speeds up the hands of the clock toward that time when we will no longer exist in total igno rance, on the general level, of what our fel low sharers on the earth are thinking and how that thought is reflected by what they do. And we, whether, or not this realization of broader horizons justifies a World Federal ist movement, will be more virile as a nation.- W t ...i ny.i t l . III CmpffTfiI tpje Ml? Cat ttl The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, s where it is published daily except Monday, examination and va cation periods and during the official Summer terms. En tered 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, $2.50 a semester; de livered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. 1 n SU of tbemverty North Carolitu - opened tts doOf in ' jfomwry , - Editor 1 ROUTE NEILL Managing Editor - LOUIS KRAAB P Business Manager JIM SCHENCK q Sports Editor ' TOM PEACOCK 1 ; G News Ed. Associate Ed Feature Editor Asst. Spts. Ed Sub. Mgr. Circ. Mgr. Asst. Sub. Mgr. Asst. Business Mgr. Society Editor Ken Sanford Ed Yodet Jennie Lynn Vardy Buckalew Tom Witty ' Don Hogg Bill Venable Syd Shuford Advertising Manager Eleanor Saunders Jack Stilwell EDITORIAL STAFF Bill O'Sullivan, Ron Levin, Harry Snook, John Beshara, James Duvall. NEWS STAFF Jennie Lynn, Joyce Adams, Dan- mm 1 T TV iel Van, Anne nuiiman, rrea rowieage, j. u. Wright, Jerry Reece, Janie Carey, Richard Creed, John Bijur, Ted Rosenthal, Jerry Epps, Jim Walsh, Ronnie Daniels, Tom Lambeth. BUSINESS STAFF Al Shortt, Dick Sirkin, Dave Leonard. ; ' - SPORTS STAFF John Hussey, Sherwood Smith, Jack Murphy, Rooney Boone, Larry Saunders. PHOTOGRAPHER -Cornell . Wright. . Niit Editor for this issue: Ken Sanford YOU Said It Horsing Around Editor: In what direction is O'Sullivan, alias Roger Will Coe, going to wander next week? In my Daily Tar Heel letter Sept. 27 which, touched on his confused scribblings concerning the Abernethey's, I presented a ' few facts and asked a few ques tions. His response to date has consisted of unimaginative mumblings about the Irish. The petty slur in last Tues-i day's column is not worth men- tion. On Thursday, he somehow managed to introduce another unfavorable allusion, and worse yet, used it as a point of depar ture for some incoherencies con cerning Catholicism, the North and the South, and segregation in the churches. , What is the point of alVthis? If he has nothing further to say about the original question, I do not feel The Daily Tar Heel is serving any worthy purpose by making space available thrice weekly for childish name-calling. I am not suggesting a muzzle, merely a little gentlemanly cir cumspection. Bob O'Connell Lonely Marine Editor: I am a lonely Marine in an in fantry company in Korea, and at mail call I don't get much mail. I sure would like to hear from some of the girls at your college. Would you please print this for me in your school paper. P.F.C. Emerson Parker, 1328054 USMC D. Company 2nd Bn. 7th Marines, 1st Pit. 1st Marine Divisino, FMF CO F.P.O. San Francisco, Calif. ' " T. Wolfe & Germany The Washington Merry-Go-Round Drew Pearson Gets The Colonel Editor: Colonel Hauser says in his let ter of October 4 that we should fight Communism by any means at our disposal, be those means fair or foul. This seems to im ply Machiavelli's theory that the means justify the end. Other such great men as Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and our own Joe Mc Carthy have operated under that same theory. I'm not going to state facts, be cause I'm not in the privileged position to hear congressional transcripts, etc. I do want to go on record as Voicing disapproval of such a bigoted, reactionary, and military outlook as that set forward by Colonel Houser. Colonel Hauser says that mice get pushed around everyday. But men don't get pushed around. Does the Colonel realize that in nocent mice can exist? Certainly all the people called before the Congressional inquisitions are not guilty, but merely the fact that their integrity is questioned constitutes a smear upon their name. "Let's kill Communist If "we wish to live. If we kill ruthlessly . . .our enemies may let us alone." This attitude is typical of the war-mongering military. Unreetired private citizen Charles L. Sharpless ! A" WASHINGTON The most steadfast economizer in the Eis enhower Cabinet continues to be the man Ike leans on most heav ily for advice Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey. And Humphrey continues to ar gue that economy can come only from slicing large, generous hunks from the military budget. His views revealed in a secret conference on the budget, give important insight into the kind of advice the President is getting from his most trusted adviser. "Mr. Dodge and I have ap peared before the new Joint Chiefs of Staff," Secretary Humphrey told a secret meeting of the Senate Finance Committee. "We have said, and I honestly believe, that there is no way a sufficient re duction in these (defense) ex penditures can possibly be made by just cutting off fat, or just going along and firing a sten ographer there "or a clerk here. The only way in the world where there is going to be anything ac complished is by a revision of these planr . "As I said in talking to Char lie Wilson, the day has gone by when we can put more chrom ium on a lamp or a bumper and get by with it. What we have to have is a brand new Chevrolet that will do twice as much and cost half as much." "How about a Foru?" piped up Oklahoma's Democratic Sen. Bob Kerr. "All right, a Ford," agreed Secretary Humphery. "It happen ed to be Charlie I was talking to, and I thought he might be more interested in a Chevrolet." "Having your new Chiefs of Staff, they will be able to carry out the policies of the President in full harmony," observed Chair man Gene Millikin, Colorado Re publican. "They have been so instructed, sir," spoke up Budget Director Dodge. "Might I inject this?" broke in Sen. Ed Martin, Pennsylvania Republican. "I have been a mili tary man all my life, and I have advocated large , 'appropriations for the defense side, but I am more fearful of internal finan cial collapse, as you mentioned a moment ago, than I am of out ward aggression." The closed-door meeting start ed heating up when Secretary Humphrey and Sen. Harry Byrd of Virginia, both loud economy advocates, clashed. Byrd wanted to know about the $81,000,000,000 in unexpended balances that the government owes., Humphrey ex plaind that the money was al ready committed, and the govern ment couldn't get out of paying it. "It's like the man who sends his wife out to furnish his- house and supply all his goods, all on the basis of C. O. D.," the secre tary of the Treasury argued. "As these goods begin to be delivered, these C. O. D." items begin to come in, all those things which were bought months before, and he has to dig down in his pocket and pay those C. O. D.'s." However, Byrd wasn't satisfied. He demanded that the President impound the money and stop payment. . "If the situation is as serious as you say, I think the President of the United States is the only man who can control it," Byrd argued. "In my opinion, he has to step in here and do it. He can withhold these expenditures. He HOPg YOU PONT MIND M PPAC- TCWM1?APi040B,mci& BMP WIN 'TAINT UOOKGP UP V6T. &UT HBZB 6055 : GOOD AfreZNCCM HEJ? ISA MPO?rAMTPf?- J 1 - 4 set triVffm Tu&ggiMfi 5pE Trie AILUkN AlU&ie FA?UHA1?,T4& CURVACEOUS M'PBS-LECTABLE TCOTOO ' 9tVMtAMP THAT SLOW SUJ?NIN 'TGJP2SS. GXEEH-ttO 1 1---- r-jtryEfjz; -r 3D! VOUBS WITH A CAPITAL U! 1 i next. V next TIME T TIME YOUJ? I OFF MASKS k YOUJtM L I 1 L A B E R lOOOi . Ill S VJ 4ft MC IfU UOOTOK till If MOT, " I 1 EINSTEIN'S THE. I CVirtfKl SMARTE.ST MAN S W.. A ON EARTH.T'ALL V VO' TAKES 1 WE GOTTA DO IS M AWAV 2.3J FOLLV THOSE PUM 24 INST ROCK-SHU NS.7 ) ? ?- HOW A MUCH UKJ Ji LEAVE f K KNOWJT-WEU NE.VAH FIGUPtETHIS OUT IN TIME TO SAVE OUR BARS CI IM TUP- t WELFARE. MEM .r.r JJ TOMORJWI VTME-y PCOMIN' Ed Yoder- can impound them. He can do as Mr. Dodge knows, he can stop payment of money, and that is what you have to do now until we straighten out this fiscal sit uation so somebody can under stand it." "Well, Senator, I hate to dis agree with you on that," objected Humphrey, "But it just seems to me that when you say the President can stop payment of the money, that it is not a practi cal thing." "Then you see no possibility of reducing expenditures from the present level?" demanded Byrd. "Now wait a minute!" snapped Humphrey. "I didn't say that! "Wait a minute! Let me fin ish!" bristled the Virginia Sena tor. "Under the Eisenhower bud get, you are going to spend this year exactly the same as Mr. Tru man spent under the Truman budget last year." "That is right," acknowledged Humphery, simmering down. "How are' you going to get these cuts and get reductions?" Byrd flashed "We are going to get them made. We have started already," promised the Secretary of the Treasury. He went on to explain that future appropriations had been cut $13,000,000,000 and that ex-President Truman's estimate Humphrey, simmering down. "You will spend the same mon ey you spent last year," inter rupted Byrd. "I have your figures right here that you gave me. You are going to spend $74,000,000, 000 this year, and you spent $74, 000,000,000 last year. . . .what I pay attention to is what was act ually expended. "I don't judge by some errone ous estimate Mr. Truman made, or somebody else made." Thomas Wolfe, the stone mason's son from Ashe ville, bade farewell to the Germany he lored in , 1936. Berlin had been running over with masses of hysterical people who had come there for the Olym pics. On their lips were cheers for the Olympian warriors, but in the backs of these massed minds was an avid, an indifferent, or a scornful seig heilt Over the festive air hung the cloud of the Swastika. The voice of the "Dark Messiah" blasted often and loudly from the radio. H. M. Ledig-Rowohlt, Wolfe's German publisher, has written grippingly of Thomas Wolfe's last visits to the land that was almost a second homeland to him, in a recent issue of the American Scholar. Wolfe, the great American romantic, had some how found the German readers taken as a mass, more receptive to his sometimes formless, but al ways beautiful fiction. In The Web and the Rock he had his transfiguration, George Webber, come to the final. realization that his name was known while Webber was 'in Germany; in actuality, the first recognition of his fame came to Wolfe when he was the admired center of attention during his last several visits to Germany. To Wolfe, Germany was always the second father land. In his short story, "Dark in the Forest, Strange as Time", Wolfe had said: "It is an overwhelming feeling of immediate and impending discovery, such as men might have who come for the first time to their father's country . . . which is the dark side of our soul." He felt a strange knowledge of the lan guage from the first time he heard it. And he felt that he had "known this strange land from the first moment that he saw it."- So there was a link, not established through the intercourse of a score of anxious visits, but rather .something deep and inherent, that fastenend Wolfe to Germany. Rowohlt and Wolfe were first pushed together in the Spring of 1935, when the latter was on the run from the reaction he expected from Of Time and the Riverlt had just been published. Rowohlt pictures the relationship as a brotherly comara derie. He was struck by the diffidence and humi lity of this American whose name was so revered in Germany. At a reception given at the American Embassy, Wolfe instantly attracted all eyes, like a rare jewel. His admirers wouldn't let him out of their sight and when they tried to praise his work, he blushed and tried to change the subject; theirs was a sealed friendship. When Wolfe left Berlin that year, there were tears in the eyes of RowoMt. He feared that per haps Wolfe never planned to return. If he had such fears, they were unjustified. Wolfe's books were selling with unprecedented swiftness in Germany and a question of his royal ties for the new novel came up. Only a limited per centage of the profit could be exported to Wolfe. Rowohlt urged Wolfe to come to the Olympics in 1936, and thus to spend his royalties. After some careful persuasion, Wolfe gave his consent and sailed for this land which had his deep and poeti cal affection. Wolfe stepped off the trans oceanic liner on to a continent whose face was thrown now in t o deepening shadow by the "Dark Messiah", as Wolfe later called Hitler. There was poi son in the air. Savage persecu tions were building toward the Master Race. The body of the State was gripp ed with 'creep ing paralysis ot mistrust." It was a dreary atmosphere in which no one knew his brother's face. So bleak was the intellectual atmosphere with suppression that many Americans could not seem , to understand that all Germans weren't Nazis. Rowohlt came to this sickening conclusion one night when he and Wolfe visited the Taverne, "the favored Lokal of foreign journalists." "Martha Dodd (daughter of the American am bassador, and personal friend of Wolfe's and Rowohlt's) was there, also in a party," Rowohlt writes. "We sat down at the next table, and I wondered why she didn't ask us over. It turned out that she was with Donald Klopfer of Random House, and Kopfer refused to sit at the same table with Germans. I felt as if someone had knocked me in the head." During that Berlin sojourn thatVas so speciously joyful with the Olympic Season, Wolfe and Rowohlt avoided "the murky question", Nazism. "Lately (Wdlfe) had come across so many frightening details of the National Socialist regime that he too, began to suffer under the weight of personal mistrust and political suspicion." When Wolfe's visit was almost to an end, Rowohlt finally broke the ice that encased the murky ques tion. He appealed to Wolfe to write a great con science novel that would anger the world against the hateful Facism. He told Wolfe what a source of encouragement his books were to German readers. "Wolfe shook his head. 'A man must write what he has to,' he declared." Nothing else was ever said between the two men about the novel. "Our parting," concluded Rowohlt, seemed as absurd as everything else around me. The creeping poison seemed to have destroyed our friendship too." To make the story end happily, it must be said that there was reconciliation. But after Wolfe left Berlin in that late summer of 1936, he never saw " ohit r the great city again. THOMAS WOLFE
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