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THE DAILY TAR-HEEL
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1953
Power
He's not on the University faculty or pay
roll, but the Rev. Charlie Jones; late of the
Presbyterian church, is showing many a stu
dent the way to education.
Take for instance, a night this week in
Graham Memorial when he spoke on "Is Col
lege Worthwhile?" He told his listeners, "We
may not learn what to do or how to do it, yet
we should get a sense of high values. . .-.I"
don't hate money. But if all college does for
you is let you learn how to get a bigger pay
check, it hasn't done enough."
Mr. Jones is one of the most articulate
men in our university community, and we
hesitate to add power to his words; its there.
Merry-Go-Round
Drew Pearson
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EN ROUTE THROUGH THE MIDWEST One
thing that galls the farmer today isthat Ezra Ben
son began his career as Secretary of" Agriculture by
hiring as his right-hand man one of the farmers'
bitterest critics. He is Jack Davis, with the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, author of the book "American Farm
er: Top-Man on the Economic Totem Pole."
Mr. Davis' intense dislike of
the farm program is best describ
ed not merely by the title of bis
book but by a speech he gave in
Cleveland before the National
Rural Cooperative Association at
which he said:
"Why dont you farmers
get off the government teat?"
Farmers have their own publi
cations these days. They are posted on almost every
thing that goes on. And when Ezra Benson, sincere
and conscientious as he is, hired Jack Davis as his
personal assistant, word spread throughout the farm
best that farmers were in for a bad time.
They hive not been disappointed. The first press
release Benson issued as new Secretary of Agricul
ture read: '
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture, largest ol
the nation's civilian agencies, swollen into a huge
bureaucracqy of 20 agencies and bureaus m the last
20 vears. is getting a major overhauling."
When Benson first aopeared before Conffres last
winter Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississiom
challenged him reearding this press release The
nw Secretary of Agriculture disclaimed knowledge
of it. said h had never read it. Jack Davis had is
sued the release.
So farmers fismred that thev knew who was run
ning the Department of Agriculture.
Th national budget is something few people read.
In fart few people even know that it's possible to
read the budget. Thev think it's something you hold
in the hnd and "balance." Actually the budget is
pretty hard to read. It's the size of a New York
phone book and just as dull. But in the back are ex
tremplv interesting figures.
The "subsidy paid to farmers in 1952 was $463,
000 009 while the estimated subsidy for 1953 is
$547,000,000. .
Th subsidy paid to businessmen, in contrast, is
more than twice as much-Si, 041. 000.000 in 1952.
These official figures distinctly show that the
farmer is not the "top man on the economic totem
pole" as Erra Benson's ex-assistant contends.
George Humphrey's companies received over $22,
000,000 in tax subsidies just a few weeks bjefore he
entered the cabinet when the Hanna Coal and Ore
Co., which he owned, got a 75 percent tax deprecia
tion on a $11,345,000 iron ore investment and an
other 70 percent write-off on a $22,000,000 nickel
plant.
And the airlines are paid huge subsidies by Post
master General Summerfield, ranging between $70,
000 000 and $95,000,000 annually: On top of this the
taxpayers shelled out $21,361,040 in 1951 to con
struct new towers, beacons, and radar for the big
airlines, plus another $13,007,035 in 1952. On top
of this taxpayers paid $73,931,733 for personnel to
operate these safety aids in 1951, plus $80,484,761 in
1952, plus another $37,000,000 and $16,000,000 for
runways and construction work at airports in 1951-52.
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EDITORIAL STAFF Bill O'Sullivan, Ron Levin,
Harry Snook, John Beshara, James DuvalL .
Night Editor for this issue:
Ken Sanford
Credo
-Jake Todd
I read in the paper the other
day where Snook defended the
use of the Fifth Amendment by
persons questioned about Com
munist and near-Communist ac
tivities and acquaintances. He
was called to task over this stand
by Chuck Hauser's father. It ap
pears to me that Col. Hauser fail
ed to see several points of at
least minor interest when he
wrote. ,
It would, no doubt, be expedi ent,
to ferret out Communism
where possible and having dis
covered it, eradicate it. However,
there is a major fallacy in this
policy: it would give absolute
justification to everything that
Russia has said about this coun
try in the last few years.
Moreover, the freedom for
which Col. Hauser's son is pre
sumably fighting in Korea is an
elusive quality, and to take away
the freedom of any group which
has violated no law, or more still,
to annihilate this group, regard
less of how small it may be or
how morally we may be opposed
to it, endangers the liberty of all
the people living in the commun
ity which allows such depriva
tions to take place.
We are not at liberty to take
action simply due to a belief we .
may have. Under our law, per
sons are responsible for what
they have done, not for what we
may think they did, and in no
case for what we expect that they
may do at some indefinite time
in the future under certain con
ditions. And once we leave the
pale of the law, we have destroy
ed our own rights under that law.
Persons who go outside the law
to secure what they feel is jus
tice denounce by their actions
the entire body of law under
which they were theretofore pro
tected, and which makes for or
dered society. They make an open
denial of those things which the
writers of the constitution felt
to be of such magnitude a3 to in
clude them in the organic law of
this nation: life, liberty, the right
to property.
Such people maintain that it
is for each individual to make the
law a belief to which any
gangster will readily ascribe,
since by this ruling, those who
are unscrupulous and ruthless
enough must certainly . fare bet
ter than those who have morally
imposed limitations on their ac
tions. The only way to safely contin
ue in our heritage is to deter
mine which laws, if any, have
been violated and legally ascer
tain responsibility for any trans
gressions. Those people whose
concern is for the betterment of
all will, I think, admit that while
an expedient measure is appar
ently the simplest solution to a
problem, great care must be tak
en that in the use of an easy way,
the end sought (in this case, I
hope, freedom) is not the very
thing which is destroyed.
I do not mean that law-breaking
should be dealt with lenient
ly, but I do mean that to deprive
persons accused of the law ofy
their rights is to deny any opera
tive law, which is to deny that
there is no law for them to have
broken in the first place.
'One Of Us Is Going To Settle Things For A Long Time"
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Passing Remark
Ron Levin
KKK.Does that mean anything
to you? Well it should. It should
bring to mind floggings, and dy
namiting of homes, and merciless
beating of innocent men and wo
men. It should make you think
of such words as intolerance, big
otry, and racial hatred.
Do you remember the much
publicized trial in Columbus
County in 1952 of former. Ku
Klux Klan Wizard Thomas L.
Showdown
Stanley Smith
The subject of hazing by Carolina fraternities has been so much
in review through The Daily Tar Heel, especially in the past couple
of years, that there's mighty little to be offered that won't sound
trite and somehow weatherbeaten. Yet it's time for something to be
said.
As we see it the I F C will soon be confronted with a ticklish
situation. Ticklish, perhaps, but not humorous, since it'll involve the
question of putting up or shutting up.
The situation seems to be this: as a result of all the fuss stirred
up awhile back the I F C was told that it would have to get tough or
turn everything over to University officials. Desiring to maintain
as much self-rule as possible, the I F C Court decided to stiffen its
sinews and summon up its blood. Barely had it started however be
fore school was out for the summer.
The effect of that vacation either weakened the fine intentions,
or some new members were brought in and were not properly in
formed as to the way things were "going to be". At any rate, the
court slipped into its old habits, and has since continued to ignore
petty violations until they became something more than petty. Let
us make the point that not all fraternities were sinnersnor are.
they all guilty now. Yet, with almost clock-like regularity, the .same
old violators keep on violating. And it is to these that the word
should passed "shoved" might be a better word before it's too
late.
Fraternities, as a social unit, present a life apart from the rest
of the University. They therefore have a right to demand considera
tion of their point of view, and it is through the I F C that these
views are best aired. And it is through the I F C exclusively that
any goals of fraternities shall be resented for consideration, quoth
the South Building. It would therefore be wise for fraternities to
back up" Whatever the court decrees in this matter.
And it is urgent that the court show that it can settle its family
troubles -without a push from the outside. If not, Grandpa Gray is
going to step in and bring his paddle with him.
Hamilton? Hamilton was convict
ed on charges of conspiracy to
commit assault for ordering sev
eral Klan floggings of both white
and Negro residents of Colum
bus County in 1952. Well, I have
news for you dear readers.
The case went up before the
State Paroles Board for review
in Raleigh Wednesday. The 46-year-bld
Leesville, S. C. grocer
and Klan boss had 'completed
one-fourth of his four year pris
on term Oct. 1, thus becoming
eligible for parole.
Fifteen Klan henchmen con
victed with Hamilton already
have been released on parole. Do
you think their stay in prison
taught them anything? Do you
think they will now follow the
straight and narrow path? Do you
think they have discarded their
white robes and hoods forever?
If you do then quit right here
and turn to things of a lighter
nature, namely Pogo or Lil Ab
ner. Actually everything is nice and
legal just like it says in the law
books. He's served the proper
amount of time and now he is en
titled to parole. But something
smells. Do you smell it? I do, and
it ain't my upper lip, cause I
smoke Chloro Strike cigarettes.
My good friend, Joe Temple
tells me this one. Joe says he
heard of a coed in Alderman or
one of those dorms who came in
an hour late the other night. Her
excuse was that she had been in
the Arboretum and couldn't find
her way out. Maybe we should
put up racks of free maps on how
to get in and ut of the Arbore
tum with free torches and first
aid kits. It's an idea. Anybody
have any suggestions. Write 'em
in.
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Roger Will Coe
("The horse sees imperfectly, magnifying some
things, minimizing others. . ." Hipporotis; circa
500 B. C.)
THE HORSE was somehow compatible with the
steps leading down to the Rathskellar from East
Franklin. Each step hai a fold of him, as it were. I
had never before seen an. accordian Horse.
"Come, fill your glasses up, to Princeton, that's
all," The Horse sang feebly. Then: "Boola-boola!
Boola-boola! Hah-hahd, Hah-vahd, Haaaaaaaah
rahd!" We knew The Horse liked to eat ivy, but we had
not before known he was so acutely Ivy. Princeton,
Yale and Harvard were on his mind?
The Horse slid down the steps,
regained his more or less normal
posture, and fluttered down on
his tender caboose, a hangover
from How Green Is My Ehle.
"The effete East, ho-ho," The
Horse ho-hoed. "The despised
Harvards, the stock - brokering
Yales, the snooty Princesteins!
That is the wty we tell it. But
what is the real truth?"
' Was The Horse finding fault?
"If the hoof fits, wear it! he
snapped. "I came out for the annual ceremonies at
Souse, purdon I, South Building, and thence to the
Davie Popular Oak."
The Davie Popular, he meant. This was no yoke.
"It's still an oak," The Horse shrugged, settling
his accordion-pleated caboose on five steps comfor
tably, and bellowing for a Blitz. " An oak. But no
matter, I am sad."
He wanted a Blatz, not a Blitz.
"Jackson, it ain't what you want, it is what you
get," The Horse chittered. "Even when I get Bud, I
get a blitz. But it grieves me to see the way the Old
North State is going. If four hundred students turn
ed out for the ceremonies, then I am four-eyed. I
counted but one hundred."
But they had them every year, the ceremonies. '
"They get Christmas every year, too," The Horse
snorted, "but these same mission Tar Hee!s are then
present, hoof extended, saliva salivating like one
of I. P. Pavlov's famed Psee-co-lo-zhee dogs when
the bell rings. Naw, let's face it, Nawth Ca'lina is
getting as blase and as sissified as One Fifth Av
enoo, Noo Yawk, where the men jeer at Ava Gard
ner and scweam when Fwankie enters."
I thought he was drawing a long bow.
"Can't draw worth a dura," The Horse said mo
rosely. "And I bow only iii the leg-department. But
it burns me that the students are given two hours
off to help celebrate the founding of the best dag
gone university in these more or less United States;
and what happens? They don't show up. Chancellor
Bob, the Glee Club, the Band; and some Fifth
Amendment dopes like me. With a student body of
five thousand and eight hundred, the windows
should shatter when they sing 'Hark, The Sound Of
Tar Heel Voices.' Even Hah-vahd would turn out
fifty percent of its students for a similar affair."
What did The Horse shink should be done?
"Stop explaining how we lost the War Between
The States," The Horse growled. "If this is our guts
and our loyalty, how did we last four years?"
YOU Said It
Editor:
Have you added Junius Scales to your editorial
staff? -
The editorial which appeared in the October 14
issue of The Daily Tar Heel was a masterpiece; the
Daily Work, People's China, or L'Humanite couldn't
have improved on it one bit.
After the innumerable volumes of testimony and
transcribed hearings of the Senate Internal Security
Committee and the House Un-American Activities
Committee; the Smith Act trials before the Supreme
Court; the numerous Communist cells that have
been unearthed in government, education, enter
tainment, the American delegation to the UN, among
.other places all of which prove that the American
(sic) Communist Party is composed of dedicated
agents of a foreign, totalitarian power sworn to the
overthrow of our republican form of government
and to replacing it by a totalitarian police state,
your stand ia attacking, in approved "activist"
terms, the New York state law that materially aids
the rooting out of Communists is indicative of either
a deliberate slant or of a peculiarly obtuse blind
ness. One of the main reasons that France fell in 1940
can be summed up in the few words, "MIeux Hitler
que Blum" (Better Hitler than Blum; Leon Blum was
the Socialist leader at that time). In 1953 it can be
ideally paraphrased, "Better Malenkov than McCar
thy." This has been the slant of your paper since I
began reading it in January of this year.
May I suggest that you take time out from cover-to-cover
perusals of the Nation to read a few of these
Internal Security Committee or House Un-American
Committee hearings? They aren't very pretty
reading but they certainly are rewarding.
Rey M. Longyear
(The editor is not a Communist and Mr. Scales
is not on his staff. We want neither Malenkov nor
McCarthy. Most of all we want the retention of con
stitutional rights, one of which is assumption of in
nocence until proved guilty. We want investigating
committees confined to their purpose, not spilling
over into the judiciary. Ed.)