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pac a TWO -THE DAILY TAR HEEL TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1954 tftje JBatt? ar Heel -A Giant's Eye 'They're Thinking Of Backing Up Now' The official student publication of t the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, I Sfte of the University '1 S' . ..... -V ' f . &- opened ttatfeefs" daily except Monday, examination and vaca tion periods and dur ing the official Sum mer terms. Entered as second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, un der the Act of March 3, 1879. , Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. Editor ROLFE NEILL Executive News Editor CHUCK HAUSER Managing Editor KEN SANFORD Business Manager AL SHORTT Sports Editor TOM PEACOCK Associate s Editor Feature Editor Asst. Spts. Eds. . Sub. Manager Cir. Manager Asst. Sub. Manager Asst. Business Manager News Editor Ed Yoder ! . Jennie Lynn Vardy Buckalew, John Hussey Tom Witty Don Hogg Bill Venable Tom Shores : . Jerry Reece NEWS STAFF Louis Kraar, Charles Kuralt, Fred Creed, Fred PowTedge, Babbie Dilorio, Richard Thiele, Tom Clark, Mike Simpson, John Jackson, Benny Stewart, Tom Lambeth, Joyce Adams, J. D. Wright, Leslie Scott, James Wright. Night Editor for this issue: John Hussey Fire One! . ; " Loud cannons' started booming this week end and right at McCarthys ear. Adlai Stevenson was' patriot first and parti san, second when he emphasized in his Satur day night (Miami speech the 'need fpCan ini media te " McCarthy-Eisenhd wer "f divorce Now comes a press conference announce ment from Steven A.1 Mitchell,' natiohal Dem ocratic chairman, "that it is '"apparent to me that the . Republicans wbiild like to keep Eisenhower with the angels and McCarthy iri the mud." - , ' s,; We agree with Mr. Mitchell that President Eisenhower, as leader of his party, is the per son most responsible for what happens in his administration. And it is morally incongru ous for the President to deplore McCarthy and yet keep him. - The situation has boiled, to this: As Joseph Alsop pointed out in his Sunday column, the President has pressure on him to let Mc Carthy have loose rein for vote-getting pur poses. The Republicans suppose they have two great vote-getters in McCarthy and Eis enhower and that they will retain their ballot potentialities as long as the two avoid an an nounced cleavaare. The President should remember that he has others to serve besides the party which put him into power. Reprinted From The Corn Cobb Freshmen: Give Them Liberty Or Death? Concerning this matter of segregating freshmen into their own dorms, The Corn Cobb wishes to take a stand: We do not agree. Our reason? Purely that freshmen are not animals to be herded into their corrals in or der to concentrate their their ill effects away' from sophomores, juniors, and seniors. They are human beings from ito 19 years old, starting a completely new sort of life which to all intents and purposes will last at least four years and result in the acquisition of a college education. There are definite advantages to be gain ed from being in contact with those who have been here a year or two arid know what's coming off. These advantages "., cannot be made use of unless those upperclassmen are available to answer questions.. True, the Uni versity proposes installing advisers and mana gers to help the freshmen through the be wildering maze of the first few Weeks of col lege life but , there is a certain informal ele ment in the giving of advice and the answer ing of questions; which would ,it seems, be lost in not having an upperclassman for a roommate. There does not appear to be any good rea son why freshmen cannot be treated as Caro lina men as soon as they come here, instead of being treated as necessary evils urit.il they have gained the experience to be Carolina A freshman can only learn to be a Car olina man by being a Carolina man, not by being told what a Carolina man is and how to act likeone by a dorm adviser especial ly since most of the dorm advisers we have come in contact with seem to be the personi fication of apathy. A case in point is the fact that not one dorm adviser or manager was at the dorm meeting on Monday night. Our argument boils "down to this: that if you treat a freshman like a freshman in hopes of making him a Carolina man, the chances are he will turn out a freshman; if you treat him like a Carolina man it is very likely he will become one quite soon. - Ed Yoder Elmer Davis, distinguished au thor and radio commentator, has sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. He just published a book of his collected essays and speeches, But We Were Born Free, that indicates he intends to stick by his guns. Mr. Davis has . detected the growing impulse in this country to reduce "the freedom of the mind, the basic freedom from which all other freedoms spring." He finds it in many facets of na tional life in McCarthyism, in Congressional attempts to domin ate national government, in cen sorship, in threats to schools, and in a nasty campaign against the bona fide liberal thinker all of which, in fact, form a sin ister concatenation. As no one else has done quite so well, Mr. Davis defines con cisely and points directly at the sources of this dryrot. He calls on those who still value truth, cour age, and dignity to combat them. There is something in this book for every reader. For those who still appreciate something on an ideal plane, there is much about freedom as an ideal. For those who must, have a freedom defined so that they can' see it and touch it, there is a tangible freedom. The importance . of the book lies in its wide appreciation of what Tacitus called "the feli city of the times when you can think what you like and say what you think." . - 3- The major error w are mak ing, according to Mr. Davis, is .one ' of judgment. To negate those er rors of judgment, some of which are getting so gross as to present a clear and present danger; he proposes a. plan of action which entails common senses courage; and anti-ignorance a plan of ac-r tion to bring the public to a reali zation of who is friend and who is foe. ': '-- -v - The justification for Congres- ' sional investigating committees is that they may unearth - some need for remedial legislation; Davis finds it incongruent that many of their probes have turned toward First Amendment areas in which Congress is prohibited from passing laws. As Congress asserts itself, through its more ruthless mem bers, he foresees a period of na tional fruitlessness for "we might reflect that all of the per iods of Congressional government in our history have been periods either of bad government or do nothing government." It is thought to chew on. He lodges another annoyed re action in his essay, "History in Double-think," which originally apepared in the Saturday Review. It is directed against the Cham beresque ex - Communists, the "wandering minstrels," who con tinue, often to the boredom of sensible citizens, to jingle their keys to the kingdom the tenets of the extreme right wing. Chambers said in Witness, "there are revolutions and counter-revolutions" meaning there can be no moderate ground. Mr. Davis disagrees (borne out by about 99 percent of the people in Europe and America) and is indignant at the audacity of those who may be as wrong now as they were in the Thirties. His positive solution? He has not joined the ranks of the messiahs and claims no in fallible program. But he has good suggestions. His first dictum is, "Don't let them scare you." If need be, honest liberals must be come as uncompromising as Mc Carthy; we must protest vigorous ly in defence of civil liberties; and when McCarthyism lies boldly and brazenly, we must say it lies and tell why. Intellectual sterility even in a bee-hive of technological power is the initial step downward. Dissent and difference of opinion must stay sound: error of opin ion may be tolerated, as Jeffer son said,' as long as truth is left free to combat it. The country must get rid of fear of its own being. A strong, well-balanced central government is important. Above all, we must remember the Con stitutional safe-guards "to pre vent the majority from doing anything that may suit its whim of the moment is precisely the reason why we have a constitu tion." Many of the things Davis says here are obvious and have been said from mumbling,' scattered, mouths before. But we have needed someone to say them elo quently and courageously a sort of Odysseus to drive a red hot stake into the giant's eye. Mr. Davis has done just that. YOU Said It inchlna'-li'jGoTo.Rdds: Drew Pearson WASHINGTON The headlines and hullabaloo' over McCarthy vs. Eisenhower have, obscured a lot of - other ; things happening around the world, some just about as important, to the free world as the battle over McCarthyism, -. 5 One is an in l dignant though to by French n 1.3 foreign minister Bidault- of the I American sug gestion that the United States train native In do - Chinese PEARSON troops. When the proposal was put up to the French that U.S. military men use the same training tactics they so successfully used with the Greeks and South Koreans, Bi dault told the American Embas sy: As long as French troops and not Americans are fighting and dying in Indo-China, there will be no American training pro gram. Bidault's answer startled the Pentagon which had been plan ning to send General "Iron Mike" O'Daniel to Indo-China. O'Daniel will still go, but with no authority to train troops. Meanwhile, it's reported that at a secret meeting in Peiping, the Russians and Chinese promised heavy armament and troops to the Indo-Chinese Reds. All indi cations are that Indo-China will sooner or later go Communist. the White House has been too great, also from other members of the McCarthy subcommittee . . .. Another reason for. axing Cohn - is that the Army has-kept a, re cord of. Jus .telephone conversa tions on behalf of his friend Ger ard David. Schine in which he sought, favors for the young ex McCarthy investigator. . Significantly, McCarthy is try ing to find a lawyer of the Jew ish faith to replace Cohn. He con siders this important in order to offset the charge that he is anti Semitic. Cohn, however, did not exactly help McCarthy, to refute this charge. Meeting McCarthy and Cohn at the Carrol Arms Hotel in Washington one day, Arnold For ster, secretary of the Anti-Defamation League, was greeted with this salutation from Cohn: "How are all the Jews in New York?" . "Fine," replied Foster. "I had dinner with your father last night." state traditionally Democratic. It is said that if Cooper. had been born fifty miles; farther, west he .would have been a.:Democrat and could stay in the Senate indefin itely. However,-during the Civil War, the political line separated Kentucky's , eastern .mountains from the pro-South midlands, and the state has been divided politi cally ever since. So it's almost certain that the familiar face of the Veep will be seen once again around the Capitol. Senator McCarthy is looking for a-new chief counsel for his investigating committee. Roy Cohn, the brash, brilliant young prosecuting attorney now holding down that job, is slated for the axe. Chief reason is that McCarthy needs a scapegoat. The heat from One of the grand old men of American politics, Alben "The Veep" Barkley, is expected to an nounce this week that he will stage a comeback to Washington. Barkley, now 76 years old, but sprier than most men of forty, has been speaking all over Ken tucky and will soon announce for the Senate seat he vacated when elected vice president in 1948. Political dopsters predict that he is certain to win. Kentucky has come to love Alben as it does bourbon and race horses; so that almost no Republican candidate could stop him, not even one as able as Senator John Sherman Cooper. Cooper, a former governor of Kentucky and once before elect ed to the Senate, is one of the most popular Republicans in a It has now been two months since Congress convened, and at long last Senator Lyndon John son of Texas, the so-called Demo cratic leader, has called a Demo cratic caucus. Ordinarily a party caucus is held at the very start of a Con gressional session, but Johnson carefully avoided calling one un til this week. Reason for duck ing usual procedure was the fear that Democratic Senators oppos ing him would stage a rump re volt. Meanwhile, Lyndon has been complaining privately to colleag ues that his hands are tied by conservative forces back in Tex as, such as oilman Hunt and the Shivercrats. If he antagonizes them he fears he'll arouse opposi tion for re-election. This caused The Louisville Courier-Journal, one of the lead ing Democratic papers of the na tion, to ask Johnson editorially and his assistant, Senator Clem ents of Kentucky, which was most important-the Democratic Party or Texas opposition to Johnson. The main object of the Demo cratic leadership in the Senate, the Courier - Journal chided, seemed to be to conduct the De mocratic Party for the benefit of Lyndon Johnson, not for the ben efit of the nation. YOU Said It Vanishing Symbols; Coeds Challenged Editor: It seems that everyone else is making comments concerning the dating problems of Carolina coeds, so I might as well get in my two cents worth. , Frankly, I'd much prefer dating imports. I say this for several reasons which would take too long to explain but I'll cite just a couple for you. First, I'll go along- with what one of my fellow male students said a few days ago; Coeds will break dates just to date someone they like better. Well, they will also break dates just to sit in their dorm all night . ; Maybe they're trying to play hard to get (God knows?). Well, they certainly should wake up ot .they will be sitting in their dorms at night because they have no alternatives. I frankly dont like to have a girl call me and break a date unless thre is a darn good reason for it. . . Secondly, why can't they come down off their pedestals. Most of our coeds have a formal intro duction before they can even speak to a guy. They should go to WC, Duke or almost any other college and they will see Agirls speaking to the "opposite sex" regardles of whether they know them or not That's not flirting; that's being' sociable. (I hope the few friendly coeds will excuse me.) In closing I'll say if the coeds want to date, why don't they start being a little more considerate by not breaking dates unless it's necessary, and try. ing to be a little friendlier from now on. I'd like to have a coed's reply concerning these two faults. So girls, if you can deny these things, let's read about it in this column. You poor dears. Nam Withheld By Request Editor: s r - What is happening to the campus? Around the Old Well, bulldozers are tearing up and flattening the area to make way for a formal garden.- Down on Franklin Street, near to Graham Memorial and in front of the Planetarium, a long line of flower ing trees has beep hacked down to make way for a parking lot. - - . . t Parking space is a critical issue in Chapel Hill, but is it necessary to fell every tree in sight? One of the attractions of our campus is the in formality and charm of old trees and lawns sym bols of Carolina's liberal traditions and outlook. Surely McCarthy is not being the efforts to put our campus in a strait jacket Please let us have new trees planted to replace the old ones as they die and less of this formality that is more ia keeping with young "Dook." William Jotuwton Brown Editor: ' We read Peacock's announcement for the candi dacy of the editorship, and would like to make the following comments on his announcement. Statements from Tar Heel: 1. "For three years I have watched the Editor of The Daily Tar Heel force his opinions on the stu dent body." - 2. "(These editors have disagreed with the majority of students on most major issues." 3. "This year the Editor has diverted much of his space to condemning our athletic program, though the athletic department is an important member in good standing of our. University." 4. "Saturday's coverage of Dean Weaver's speech, with its anti-athletic coloring, plus what I consider a misrepresenting editorial, is the culmination of these three years of student mispresentation." 5. "My goal is to print a Daily Tar Heel which reflects the opinion of the student body." 6. "My goal is to make the Daily Tar Heel a true student newspaper, not the sounding board of an individual." 7. "Our athletic program is not the only conten tion of the Daily Tar Heel's editorial policy. The Daily Tar Heel should be as conservative as the student body. I hope to make it so." . 1. If Peacock had such a genuine interest in the opinions of the editor and his "forcing" of these on the student body, why did he continue working with the editor, and why did it take Peacock three years to get the "courage" to challenge this "sin ful" practice? Tom failed to understand that we students do not believe everything we read. Per haps he felt that he would write editorials which f contained absolutely. ! no opinion whatsoever. In other words the editorial column would be complete- ly blank. . ; . . . ..-..2 Peacock admits. that the editor has agreed with the majority of the students on some major issues.. But' what constitute; a. ? major, issife? .: Something which effects his positions among the "gladitors''' r v or something which affects , the future of the stu , dents', and the Unlveraity - ;;. :'-.! . .3.,The students gv:-.&9i4itor:'the. right 4a diT agree and the right io.point out ill-practices of any department when the elect him. In any exposure , of -favoritism,, those wha stand -to lose most cry . loudest .,. ' ..:v 4.1 Dean Weaver's speech was quoted. When he said that athletics in the University had reached ther professional stage, that's what he meant Tom. seems to feel as though he is the only person, who. . can- reflect the true opinion of . the stu dent body. At one place Mr. Peacock used the term referendum. Does this, mean that he would hold a referendum before expressing "his" opinion in an editorial? It would take almost fdurty-eight hours just to ask each student one question. Maybe he would obtain student opinion quicker by gazing into a leather ball. 6. From the announcement, it appears that he is in favor of a true student newspaper and not a sounding board for an individual. We agree with him when he indicated that if elected editor, the. paper would not be run by an individual. It would probably be operated by a group of "elite." "Elite" which consider themselves the only persons with the insight to tell the students what they should and should not believe about big-time athletics. Perhaps they sincerely believe that the "whole University would collapse if inter colligate athletics were placed on an amature bases. With Peacock's background of three years faith ful service to athletics, we are sure that he will look with "tolerence" upon those who believe that athletics is just one of many aspects of a Univer sity. We were glad to see that 5.8 per cent of his candidacy announcement pertained to things other than athletics. It shows that only 94.2 p'er cent of his mind is- occupied with athletics. We need a "broadminded" person of his wide experience in all fields. . Old Peacock was really mixed-up when he said "as conservative as the student body." When did the student body become conservative? If the stu dent body is conservative, why has it always elected ' a liberial editor? (There are only a few Tom-type conservatives. The others of us, whatever he may call us, believe - in making progress which will benefit all students and all departments of the University. As Peacock concluded, we "hope to do so." Charles Childs " Tommy Bennett Editor: Re "Tale of the Dawg" for Feb. 26. Basically, there are two sides to every question, and the McCarthy dispute is no exception. However, in his zeal to be independent, your friend The Dawg has overlooked a number of points. It is the right, rather the duty, of the Congress to act as watchdog on the Executive. They rightful ly have the power to investigate any facet of gov ernment operations, or American or foreign con ditions, in an effort to secure facts for futurte ac tion or policy. However, it should be assumed that this legislative body will conduct itself in such manner that the overall efficiency of government and the overall security of the nation are not en dangered. No person who claims immunity under the Fifth Amendment has any right to hold a position of re sponsibility and trust. (Those of us who are not swept up in either the Hate-McCarthy or Love-McCarthy clubs are able to see that this is true, but we are also able to see that "Fifth Amendment Communists" are nof the only people who are quizzed before the Senator's committee. The day is coming when the self-respecting American will hesitate to offer his services to the government or the armed forces of the United States. No de gree of patriotism or personal humility will allow vt a man of character to submit himself to being re viled and spat upon by demagogues. McCarthy has helped to awaken America to the Communist menace, and should be given due credit for his efforts. Nevertheless, let us not be blind to the fact that without democratic restraint, the greatest heroes have become tyrants. WilliamMcCorkle ("William McCorkle" is the younger brother of Charles McCorkle, Charles Hauser. Editor.)