PACE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 15
The Turtle Moves
Gravely Sanatorium, another symbol of
the defeat for the timeless destroyer, Tuber
culosis, was dedicated this week. The erec
tion and dedication of an edifice can have on-
Iy physical meaning, but in this case, we be
lieve that meaning can be extended. It has
a symbolic implication because it is a mile
stone in the progress of medical science.
We have faith that within current man's
lifespan, doctors will be able to look up to
a patient afflicted with some of our major
killers whether Cancer, Heart disease, or
TB and assure him that "it's not anything
that a little care won't cure." This may be
called wishful thinking, but in view of the
rapid strides made by medical science since
the influenza carnages of the World War I
flays, it is reasonable conjecture.
One enemy stands in the path. This ene
my is the tendency of man to put himself and
his interests before the interests of whole
sale advancement. Drew Pearson dealt rather
extensively, several weeks ago, with the im
pediment certain members of the American
Medical Association are alleged to have put
up in the way of the new Cancer drug. Pear
son's story was intensified by the fact that it
dealt with the late Senators Taft, and Tobey;
with the benefit of the new drug in time,
both lives might have been saved. When
Senator Tobey attempted to get a quantity
of the drug for the treatment of Taft, his
way was blocked.
If this story has any validity, it has gotten
a tragic lack of attention. The point recog
nizable is that no group large or small
should sit. in a position powerful enough to
arbitrarily separate men from their lives.
But with altruism taking precedence over
egoism, medical science, as testified to by the
completion of the new sanatorium, can and
will move foreward.
Ebb Tide
-Anita Anderson-
We've just won our first two games and Caro
lina spirit has reached a high. We're proud of the
impressive scores that our team has run up against
our two recent opponents. And we're optimistic
enough to be expecting more Saturday victories.
We think that our team deserves a higher rating
than that which the sportswriters have given us.
That's fine. We should be optimistic. But can we
continue to be so very cheerful if we get into the
defeat column today?
Carolina spirit has been seen to rise and fall
as our football scores have done likewise. When
we're winning we rock the stadium with our cheers.
But when we're losing it's hard for the cheerlead
ers to get more than a feeble cry from the crowd.
Our famed Carolina spirit should not ebb when
we're losing. It's quite possible that we'll lose the
next few games. We must remember that we have
already played our weakest opponents. The hard
schedule is facing us now.
Let's keep up our Carolina spirit no matter what
today's score may be. Our degree of enthusiasm
is bound to be felt by the team, and they need that
support especially when they're losing.
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YOU Said It
Editor: -
Where did you geKthe news
that the veterans were venturing
to organize a Vet's Club?
I have read The Daily Tar Heel
the past two weeks and have not
seen any news of it until your
disgusting editorial There should
not have been any news because
I was the one talking with Col.
Shepard about the idea and no
news was supposed to come out
until a meeting was called. . . .
First of all, nobody is trying
toorganize a Vet's Club. The pe
tition is merely to see who is in
terested in one. If enough signa
tures can be obtained, then we
will venture to organize a club.
Secoxd, we have no idea of
what would have taken place
within the organization because
the petition is only to see how
many are interested. When-the
club gets to the planning stages,
problems of internal organization
will be worked out, but could
be solved in the following ways:
Finances. Why can't a veter
an's club be organized and oper
ated on a similar basis as the
Army PX and Navy Exchange
stores? Sure it would take money
to get started, but what man in
Chapel Hill wouldn't pay a few
dollars for beer, pool and the
other luxuries that are part tf a
non-profit, private organization..
Attendance. Who wants to at
tend any meeting of a club that
does not show any initiative or
interest in the club's well-being
by its members and sponsors or
does not offer some form of rec
reation? Remember last quarter
when veterans were told they
had to take Physical Education?
Your editorial should have
been written last quarter against
the Phys Ed courses for vets in
stead of now. This Phys Ed prob
lem is one of many that a veter
an faces, so when problems like
this are discussed at meetings,
veterans will be there.
Drinking. Almost every veteran
drinks and 90 of the other stu
dents do, too. Veterans drink
while in service on a lot less pay
than they get now so they should
n't mind putting out a little ex
tra cash for beer. Beer in town
costs from thirty to forty cents,
while in a private club it would
cost a lot less. This sale of beer
would eventually take care of the
club's finances and no dues would
have to be collected.
The University does have a
regulation against drinking on
the campus. In fact, the impres
sion given me was that a "Vet's
Club" would not be able to car
ry the name "University Veter
an's Club" if beer was allowed.
This is very unfair beeause fra
ternities operate under these
same University regulations and
drink, if they buy it, without in
conveniences and expense.
Another important fact is that
the petition has nothing to do
with the old Veteran's Club that
operated a few years back. Their
problems belonged to them and
since we are a new group of vet
erans, we can solve our prob
lems, not as we go along but be
fore grand opening night.
Sure, we veterans are in for
rough seas, the seas being the 10
per cent that didn't get the word
or else so set against a club, and
I'm sure your editorial didn't
make the seas any calmer. If
enough veterans sign the peti
tion, located in 315 SoQth Build
ing, we will have taken our first
step in combatting these rough
seas. Porter Griggs
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Washington Me rry-Go-Round
Drew Pearson.
WASHINGTON Here is the,
inside story of how Marshall La
vrenti Beria, ex-No. 2 man of
Russia, popped up on the list of
Joe McCarthy's potential witness
es. Thuogh the story hasn't pan
ned out the way McCarthy hoped,
real fact is that Joe had- been
saving this as the big piece de
resistance of his whole spy-hunting
career. Revelation that the
former secret police chief of Rus
sia had surrendered to McCarthy
was to be a sensational climax
which would rebuild the public
confidence that Fell off after Joe
hired, then fired, J. B. Matthews,
the Protestant Red-hunter.
The man who
sold McCarthy
on the Marshall
Beria escape is
a colorful and
delightful s o 1
dier of fortune
named Flavio
Galla, a Nica
raguan who has
been trying to dump the present
regime in Nicaragua, and who
also has some political axes to
grind against the Arbenz Guz
man regime in Guatemala.
Gallo operates in Mexico and
on the West Coast and was the
source of the report that a State!
Department official had been
shaken down for $150,000 during
the Truman Administration. Gal
lo has had close contacts with
Gene Fuson, a California news
paperman who first broke the
story of the $150,000 bribe and
also wrote the first report that
Marshall Beria had escaped.
Last summer Gallo privately
peddled the rumor that Beria
had escaped from the Kremlin
early in July and was hiding in
Spain. According to Soviet an
nouncements, Beria was arrested
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on June 26. According to Gallo's
story, he escaped a short time
later and went to Spain.
Gallo conveyed this informa
tion to McCarthy in midsummer
so the Wisconsin Senator had
known about the report for about
two months. During that time, so
far as can be ascertained, he did
not pass the word on to the State
Department until September 22.
This in itself is highly unusual;
for reports of extraordinary ac
tivity behind or inside the Iron
Curtain can be of great value to
Central Intelligence and the
State Department, and are sup
posed to be passed on immediate
ly. This, however, apparently was
not done. For State Department
officials said the first thing they
knew about the matter was when
they read the Beria reports in
the newspapers.
Vice-President Nixon substan
tiated advance knowledge of the
matter when he said in New York
that he Tiad known of the alleged
Beria escape for about a month.
Yet not a word was dropped
to the State Department, which
customarily takes every possible
step to check reports that affect
Soviet foreign policy.
Instead, soldier of fortune Fla
vio Gallo shipped his Cadillac to
Italy in August, then went him
self to Italy and Spain for a
rendezvous with the alleged Mar
shal Beria.
In hiding with Beria, according
to the McCarthy-Gallo reports,
are two other Russians, one a
top atomic scientist and the oth
er an expert on North and South
America and China. .
The decidedly skeptical State
Department and Central Intelli
gence Agency have sent two men,
who have seen Marshal Beria and
would know him if they saw him
again, to Spain in order to in
terview the man who McCarthy's
agent says is the ex-No. 2 ruler
of Russia. They can't conceive
that he is Beria, but they want
to leave no stone unturned to get
the true facts.
Senator Kefauver of Tennes
see, who's suspicious of the way
the Commerce Department has
pushed around American news
papers and fne Cuban govern
ment regarding newsprint from
Cuban sugar cane, is looking in
to the role of $l-a-year men in
side the Commerce Department.
Last May the Cuban govern
ment took the good-neighbor
policy seriously and wrote a let
ter to the State Department ask
ing for the loan of Jesse Fried
man, the Commerce Depaart
mentfs expert on making news
print out of bagasse-sugar-cane
waste. After tfo months' delay,
the Commerce Department wrote
back on Aug 3 wanting to know
when Mr. Friedman could be
spared sinse he's the only gov
ernment expert available on this
subject. As this is written, an
other two months have passed
and Cuba still hasn't received a
reply.
Meanwhile it develops that a
key official inside the Commerce
Department, Leonard Pasek, who
advises on newsprint matters, is
loaned to the government by the
Kimberly-Clark Co. of Wisconsin,
manufacturers of paper from
wood pulp. Pasek wrote a report
on newsprint from saw grass
which made the flat statement:
"It is unlikely that any fibers
produced by chemical processes
alone will displace ground wood
pulp as the principal fibre con
tent of newsprint paper."
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Eye Of The Horse
Roger Will Coe
("The horse sees imperfectly, magnifying some
things, minimizing others. . Hipporotis; circa
500 B. C.)
THE HORSE was browsing near Alumni Build
ing when I saw him. I warned him about any fur
ther depredations on the Morehead Planetarium
shrubbery.
"That stuff," he sneered. "How can you expect
any good growth and you've got no chernozem, Rog
er? By-the-bye, have you seen the special class of
fillies that the Lieutenant-Governor of Carrboro i
teaching? Yi and yipe!"
Once over lightly, please? The
what of Carrboro?
"Lissen, anybody who can col
lect a class like that is worthy
of more than a mayoralty," The
Horse said seriously. "I mean it
The feed-bag dope is, you gotta
qualify with I. Q.'s of 36-34-23-to
make that class in Geology."
That was low for I. Q.'s, I ob
served. "Oh, you're thinking of such
unimportant things as Intelli
gence Quotients?" The Horse stared. "'Interesting,
Quail,' I mean. Brother, they shouldn't go out and
. get a load of rocks, the rocks should get a load of
them. Miss America would be lost in the back-row
center in that class."
Well, good. What else did he know about our
Semester Classes?
"We got a real humorist teaching one of them,"
The Horse grinned. "He says a survey shows that
only three percent of the people in America del
Norte, that is claim to be Upper Class. Purdon
I, Upper Clawss. He hints broadly that the other
ninety-seven percent are hoping to be contradicted
when they say they are Middle Class Folk. A recent
hurried survey of Dook shows the Middle Class
claimants should be contradicted in Spades."
Oh? Were they all Upper Clawss there at Dook?
"Thy exactly average," The Horse pronounced.
"Their wearing apparel is Upper Clawss, and they
are well, as I said, they have misnamed their
topmost mercenary. They call him Country Slaugh
ter. Brother, what he did to them Vols and them
Deaks, he should be called Crossroad Slaughter; be
cause when Big Ed starts to prowl like a midnight
possum among the opposition, it is Slaughter r.t the
Crossroads."
Yes, so I had heard. But why the odd grammar?
"Well," The Horse shrugged, "maybe some mer
cenaries might .have my words read to them, and
an interpreter might not be present."
Did I detect a note of envy, or malice, even?
"Heh-heh," The Horse heh-hehhed. "I'd like to
see Crossroad Slaughter take me out in a play! I'd
like to see somebody beat me down the field under
a punt! I'd like to see them take me out with a
block! WhycLyou alleged humans stick to your
trades? Take the Ring: there isn't an ape couldn't
beat Marciano's dome rockier than it is; nor a go
rilla couldn't win a Battle Royal against your ten
best wrestlers; nor a kangaroo couldn't beat your
best broadjump, and backwards. What if one of
you can beat the other at some game? The least of
us could make you look silly."
Yes? -Take grains, now. Hops, or wheat, or rye?
"Ay be seeing you!" The Horse shrilled as he
raced Durhamward.
An Invitation
Robert C. Smith
We think that all incoming freshmen should be
informed that Chapel Hill is surrounded by woods.
Yes, we said woods. Of course the incoming fresh
man in first coming to Chapel Hill penetrated these
woods by paved roads and automobile; but that is
different and not what we mean.
We mean, BY GOD, that the best part of the
fall is now here, that the leaves are changing, and
that anyone with the slightest strain of wildness in
his blood ought to get out of town and see the
woods even if it means cutting one of his dull
classes.
The University makes it compulsory for fresh
men to take physical education courses in all sorts
of trivial sports so there is no reason why an
other should not be added: to wit, a leisurely course
in woods-walking. If a text-book is needed (and it
probably isn't), we suggest one by Henry David
Thoreau..
And you tired businessmen of Franklin Street,
have you heard the indicting words of Lord By
ron: "If commerce fills the purse,
She clogs the brain. . .
So unclog your brains, close your shops for an
hour or two, leave your infuriating customers be
hind, and take to the woods!
And don't be afraid. The birds and rabbits and
squirrels won't harm you! On entering the wooded
area you'll find yourself beneath a soft canopy of
living green leaves; and under your feet, a graveyard
of golden leaves ornaments without end!
dead and sad and mangled, like paper-dolls aban
doned by a careless child.
You may see . a hundred ants on a single leaf,
or a woodpecker puttering about with his bill. Sim
ple things, obscure and dramatic. Can you imagine
anything as unmomentous, as unnoticed, as a single
leaf falling quietly to the earth in a great, thick,
deep forest? .
The love of nature is scorned for some reason
but isn't it just as good as the love of football or
the love of beer? One may even learn to be humble
In the woods.
After all, we do have a tradition to maintain:
Did not the first student in this University Hin
ton James walk all the way from Wilmington
through woods, fields, swamps and unpaved roads
to get to Chapel Hill?