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THE DAILY TAR HEEL-
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1954
Double Talk
'And Whats New With You?'
The hassle over the appointment of Jim
Fountain to the head cheerleader's job gave
us some uneasy moments- He finally made it,
and we're glad.
Now it would appear the thing for the
politicos to do is to re-examine the election
law and weed out ambiguous sentences like
this one:
"The nominee shall have passed a mini
mum of 27 hours in the two semesters im
mediately prior to the semester in which he
is nominated, which shall be accompanied
by an overall grade of C or higher."
Does the phrase, "overall grade of C or
higher," apply to the candidate's last two
semesters in the University, or does "overall"
in this case mean a C average during the
candidate's whole school career?
Nobody seems to know. For two years,
candidates have been disqualified for lack
of a C average in the two semesters prior to
their nominations. In the Fountain case, the
other interpretation was decided on by the
elections board. The startling fact: that in
terpretation may have been the one intended
by the writers of the law in the first place!
So we'll hope for a clarification from the
Legislature soon, meanwhile congratulating
Cheerleader Fountain on keeping his job.
Our Best Weapons:
Patience And Humility
These are excerpts from a speech by
Barry Bingham, president of the Louisville
Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, to the
Pinehurst Forum in Pinehurst, North Caro
lina. Editor.)
Patience and understanding, not bombs
and bullets, hold the key in America's con
test with Communism in Asia. The Com
munists are counting on lack of patience to
send Americans rushing to hide ourselves
in the cyclone cellars of Kansas. On that
day, Communism will win all of Asia by
default.
Military victory, bought at no matter what
price of human sacrifice, can serve no pur
pose by itself. It must carry the colors of
political victory high upon its standard. No
Asian country will stay liberated unless the
liberator brings an alternative leadership
the masses of the people can accept and
respect.
We demand that every nation make an
immediate choice between oranges and
lemons, so that we can line everybody up on
one side or another. We are sure our oranges
are -more wholesome than the Communist
lemons, but we must leave free people to
make the decision on their own.
There is a saying in Asia than when ele
phants struggle, the ants are crushed. The
passion of many Asians is to keep clear of
what they believe is an inevitable battle of
the elephants. America has not succeeded
in convincing them that we are determined
to avoid a struggle by every human means
short of giving up our freedom.
The living standards of most Asians are
desperately low, but they are simply not in
terested in our tales of autos and refrigerators
and television sets. They inherit a culture
which was producing the world's most beau
tiful and elaborate temples, exquisite mini
atures, carvings of jade, and manuscripts of
lofty learning when America was still a howl
ing wilderness.
Our best weapons are not bullets or bombs
or even moneybags. They are the qualities
of patience, understanding, and humility.
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THOUGHT
For today:
Gordon Gray
Is mostly
Away.
COW COLLEGE Lecture
Notes: John Wesley Clay gave a
talk on the west Raleigh campus
last week ' on the subject, "Life
at Sea on Board a Cattle Boat"
. ADD SIGNS of Spring: Ber
muda walking shorts more and
more in evidence in Y court. . . .
Joanne Murphy commenting on
her asthma: "I've been taking
every kind of -drine they make."
. . .Athletes finding those WG
sox they've been wearing all win
ter getting a little uncomfort
able. . .
LETTER-WRITER Fred Collins
shows up in Sunday's newspaper
deploring as "a disgrace to the
Carolina way of life" the actions
of "a couple of fraternity mem
bers who "picked up" some high
school girls here for the drama
festival. Considering the facts
that there are hundreds of fresh
men and sophomores on campus
without girls of comparable age
to date, and the high school girls
were apparently willing (a pick
up is never one-sided), I can't
see that anything is called for
other than hearty congratula
tions to these friendly young
men who showed the spirit of
true Carolina hospitality by es
corting the girls around town.
Maybe Fred would have a bet
ter outlook on life if he tried to
assert some of the same type of
friendly and hospitable person
ality traits these boys displayed.
AND WHILE we're on the sub
ject, it might be appropriate to
suggest that Fred Collins spend
his time organizing a group of
dormitory negotiators to arrange
for a dorm visiting agreement in
stead of complaining about the
initiative of other folks to im
prove their lot.
THOSE AIR FORCE people
who set up shop in the Y lobby
last week were not recruiters,
they informed me. One of them,
SSgt 'Ray Alverson, explained
that he had talked four students
into staying in school during one
day. "We're here to supply in
formation on the air cadet pro
gram, and to help students fill
out applications if they're inter
ested," he said. "But we are only
interested in talking to seniors
or to those students who for
some reason cannot return to
school next year'
CONDOLENCES of the Week
go to the sophomore who remem
bered at sunset one day last week
that that was the day he was
scheduled to take the draft de
ferment test. Oh well, Army
life's not so bad. . .
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Symington's Stock Down
Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON Senate ob
servers concur that Stu Syming
ton of Missouri has just about
lost his bid for the presidential
nomination by not speaking out
at the McCarthy hearings. An
A-l administrator, who did a
great job as Air Secretary, Stu
art is too in
articulate, too
meek, too suave
in the rough-and-tumble
of
McCarthy de
bate .... Sen.
John McClellan
has probably
re-elected him
s e 1 f Senator
PEARSON from Arkansas,
thanks to McCarthy. A few weeks
ago, McClellan faced likely de
feat from Arkansas' popular ex
Gov. Sid McMath. Today McClel
lan's punches at McCarthy have
upped his chances 50 per cent
.... Arkansas is overwhelming
ly anti-McCarthy .... McClellan
didn't have the courage, as did
his Arkansas colleague, Bill Fu
bright, to vote against McCarthy's
appropriation, but he now sees
the handwriting on the wall.
Fulbright was the sole senator
out of 96 to vote against McCar
thy's whopping big appropriation
.... This is the taxpayer's dough
used by McCarthy to send Don
Surine, a discharged FBI agent,
up to New York to scare Arthur
Pierson's mother-in-law out of
her wits by telling her her daugh
ter was involved in a hit-and-run
accident. This was a ruse to get
Pierson's address in an effort to
retaliate against Sturve Hensel,
forthright Defense Department
attorney who drew up the Army
charges against McCarthy. Hensel
was Pierson's old partner.
Senator Mundt's handling of
the McCarthy hearings fis. sa
lame, friends fear it's likely to
help his Republican opponent,
David Wilkens, South Dakota
farmer, who is running against
hinyn the June 1 primary. Mundt
has let special counsel Ray Jen
kins, the slow-spoken Tennessee
criminal lawyer, act as if he was
committee chairman. This is un
heard of in Senate procedure
.... During the Kefauver hear
ings there was never any doubt
as to who ran the show Estes
Kefauver .... During Truman
Committee hearings there was
no doubt as to who ran the show
Harry Truman. Harry was not
a lawyer but he ran things.
Mundt is no lawyer but he's not
running things . . . .Mundt gets
involved in interminable hassels,
which is duck soup for McCar
thy. It lets Joe dominate the. TV
cameras .... Mundt is president
of the National Forensic League,
editor of The Rostrum, associate
editor of The Speaker, is sup
posed to be one of the great
public speakers of the U.S.A. But
when he gets off the rostrum in
the rough-and-tumble of debate,
he doesn't know what to say.
The Eye Of The Horse
: Roger Will Coe
THE HORSE was scribbling furiously on clean
manuscript paper and breathing a mist of moist
mash in sterterous emotion. We guessed he was
writing mishmash?
"Shaddup, Roger," The Horse
snapped. "I am wearing my com
posing cap. I am making poetic
comment on noose of the day."
This was news, it having been
stated that, in the opinion of
many, The Horse was decompos
ing. I could only hope his poetry
was not comparably mordant.
"Listen to this," The Horse
cackled through his Dental Clinic
ivory console panel. "Listen to
this, Roger:
, Flying saucers are reported
Diving low and doing nip-ups;
Could these tales be distorted?
Are those folks just in their cups?
"Howzat?" The Horse beamed, chopping his con
sole board in glee. "Will that get by?"
It appeared that most anything would get by
nowadays. Had The Horse been to the recent meet
ing of student Legislature when the Budget was
being approved, cr whatever happened to it?
"You mean that rhubarb last Thursday night?"
The Horse asked. "Man, I was proud of the lads
and lasses! Even when the lads were capable of
boobishnss, it was not any ordinary boobishness,
but indeed it was of epic variety. As for example,
that slice of arrant nonsense when one of The Few
excitedly started counting heads to see if maybe he
couldn't pull his claque out of the meeting so there
couldn't be a quorum vote, after we had yammered
and hammered and stammered for no less than
three and one-quarter hours over thissa and thatta?
"Boss Cook really poured it on," (The Horse said
admiringly. "One of our better blood-boilers, that
lad! We ught to have more Cooks."
Didn't The Horse think that too many Cooks
might SPoil the broth?
"That's as corny as the one you would let me
use during Elections Week," The Horse groaned.
" 'Keep Your Sunny Side U. P. "
Yes, but The Horse was SP.
"I was double -endorsed," The Horse corrected
me. "Furthermore, it was only fair the U. P. should
have something out of the massacre, if only a slo
gan. "But I'm here to tell you The Old North State
has nothing to fear when looking forward to' future
state legislatures with lads like Boss Cook, Man
ning Muntzing, Bax Miller, Jim Turner, Charlie
Wolf. Brother, when they assumed the rooster, flint
scraped and sparks flew!"
Didn't The Horse mean, the rostrum, not the
rooster?
"I call it the rooster," The Horse said, "because
someone always gets plucked when it is assumed.
The one guy I felt sorry for was the Senior Class
prexy when he cried bitter tears over the refusal of
(The Many to carry out his campaign pledge of The
Biggest & Best Senior Party Ever. Morally, Boss
Cook and Bax Miller are right about The Senior
Class Gift: it is a dole. But Jim Wallace was right
when he said we ivere swallowing camels and
straining at gnats. However, in the future, it would
be nice if the Seniors would go into their pockets
for the less-than-a-buck each requisite to the
intended gift. If they didn't get that much good
out of UNC, okay, let their, pockets stay sewed up."
And, the Senior Class party was cut, also.
"It's easy to taper the expense," The Horse
shrugged. "It is for beer and hot dawgs at Hogan's
Lake? Okay, two hundred dollars less of hot dawgs
does it. Not only is everybody happy, but everybody
is actually happier, yipe, with less hot dawgs to
dilute the suds.''
JIM FOUNTAIN, the Elections
Board ruled Monday, was eligi
ble to run for head cheerleader
in spring elections. But the
Board says it cannot make its in
terpretation of the elections laws
retroactive, so Fountain, even
though he was on the ballot and
received the votes, was not elect
ed. The Board's action does one
thing in this case: It gives Presi
dent Tom Creasy the authority
to legally appoint Fountain to
the post. As far as I'm concern
ed, Jim should appeal the ruling
of the Elections Board to the
Student Council, with a request
that he be certified as the offi
cially, elected candidate. Under
the present circumstances Foun
tain will be forced to stand elec
tion to the post at any time a
special election may be called for
any purpose in the future. He
should not be put in this position.
The students have voted him
their choice, and the decision
should not be open to question.
on the Carolina Front
Louis Kraar
As we looked at the newspaper maps of lead
ing cities that were marked with concentric cir
cles indicating the degrees of damage a hydrogen
bomb could cause, we thought of a freshman phys
ics course and Dr. Joseph W. Straley, who taught
us.
Dr. Straley's course is one in the basic princi
ples of the atomic bomb, and it's designed for
those of us who aren't going to, or simply haven't
the ability to, major in science. Although I don't
recall all my electrons and neutrons, I'll never
forget one of my last classes in Dr. Straley's
course.
He was explaining what I think he called the
"crucial mass." This was supposed to be what you
get when you make an atomic bomb that's ready
to explode. As I recall, Dr. Straley explained that
scientists figured out the "crucial mass" on pa
per, so that the bamb wouldn't explode prema
turely. Scientists would figure on the bomb being jus
a little less than this "crucial mass," and later, af
ter it was set off, parts of the bomb would come
together to form the mass that would explode.
The gist of the whole thing was that if careful
scientists hadn't figured out the bomb's ingredi
ents on paper correctly, the atomic bomb would
have blown up in their faces when constructed.
About this point in the class, a student asked
jokingly, "Dr. Straley, weren't they a little a
fraid?" And Dr. Straley turned towards the class, look
ing more serious, and said, "I'm still afraid."
Everyone laughed at the time. But later, after
I had finished the course, I realized that Dr. Stra
ley's observation was all I had remembered very
vividly. It occurred to me this week as I looked at
the maps of possible H-bomb damage, that only
scientists like Dr. Straley can fully comprehend
the potency of such powerful weapons.
An old-fashioned, comparatively puny atomic
bomb killed between 210,000 and 240,000 persons
at Hiroshima. And now, we understand the H
bomb is much more powerfuL
It makes you wonder what the bomb man ;made
will make man. And somehow you know that Dr.
Strayel's comment, 'Tm still afraid, isn't funny
any more.
YOU Said It
SP 'Giveaway' Gets UP Scorn
Editor:
The old saying, "all that glitters is not gold,"
was never better shown than at the student Legis
lature meeting last Thursday night. This proof
came as a direct result of the Student Party give
away program of last fall and winter. The Student
Party leaders told the Legislature' that it must
economize for the coming year because funds are
going to be very short. Funds are short because
the Student Party went ahead with its give-away
program without adequate planning and without
taking adequate precautions to assure fair treat
ment for all.
The result of this lack of foresight has been
the following: (1) The appropriation for Senior
Week for next year (so aptly deserved) has been
greatly reduced, (2) Funds are not now available
to provide a fair share of the improvement pro
gram for all organizations; (3) The Daily Tar Heel
will go on a 5-day week after the close of football
season next year. t
We hope that the students will judge the un
fairness of these policies and not again be deceived
by high sounding political slogans!
R. B. Meacham
Reuben Leonard
Creasy Critic
(The writer of the following letter is a mem
ber of the staff of The Daily Bruin at the Univer
sity of California at L6s Angeles, a reader of The
Daily Tar Heel, and a West Coast critic of camp
us affairs. Editor.)
Editor:
I might say it seems the supporters of Mr. Crea
sy should now scrape up the footprints now that
their candidate has been elected, rather than
leave it to the University grounds employees to
clean up after little, messy children.
I was brought up to believe that no matter how
great the purpose of the mess I was expected to
clean up after myself, not leave it to someone
else.
Elinbrth Zinz
Look, Ma, I'm Guzzling!
Editor:
For the past several years there has been an epi
demic of verbal diarrhea among certain small stu
dent groups on this campus. These "campus law
yers," ever ready to agitate against the administra
tion and get their name in the paper, have managed
to peeve the adminstration, the trustees, and the
state in general. Right now the powers-that-be are
looking around for bigger and better shafts to gig
us with. This year it was Saturday classes, next year,
who knows.
The latest outbreak of this disease is in the mat
ter of the coed drinking agreement. Student gov
ernment leaders are complaining that an alcoholic
hypocrisy exists on this campus and that they have
no authority. The fundamental question is neither
of these. The hypocrisy could be remedied by throw
ing a few violators out of school, and actually, stu
dent government has nothing to do with the whole
issue. The question is whether the Administration
of a state university, in a state in which the drys
are parched and the wets are only damp, can openly
sanction drinking among its women students
whether Mr. Average North Carolina would want
to send his daughter to such a school. It is because
of their innate irresponsibility in matters such as
this that student government will continue to do
nothing that requires any more authority than play
ing tiddly winks.
Much more needed than a coed drinking agree
ment is some sort of dorm visiting agreement. As
things now stand a poor, heather, "Danny Dorm" has'
to ask his mother to wait in the car if she visits
him on Sunday afternoon. Let's have more for the
many instead of so much for the few, and above all,
will all of the Moseses who feel the calling to lead
us out of the wilderness- into the promised land
please cease, desist, and shut up.
. Name Withheld By Request
The true way to be deceived is to think oneself
more knowing than others. De la Rochefoucauld.