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PACE TWO THS DAILYiTARiHfSL iTSATUROAY.-MAV , l?M ' 'All Aboa'rd, . Folks - it's All We Got? Coeds & Cocktails WU Said It On With The War(?) (The author of the following piece of humor is a former col- John Motley Morehead had it right the one who was governor in 1843, we mean when he made that remark to the governor of South Carolina: "Its a long time between drinks." . '.' v ' If there's any doubting the wisdom of that powerful thinker it ought to be dispelled by the time the .weekend is over The fraternity Uge satirist jrmn a lid.western men won t be breaking out the spirits until ,,,w,, Arm the women are out the door. The Admin- orces involved in Exercise Flash istration s ban against drinking, (even in a " Burn, the atomic maneuners be. third floor closet) with ladies around is upon .ing conducted at nearby Fort Bragg. He remains anonymous .' for . obvious reason.-fEd.) Spring rides a strange stallion this year at Fort Bragg. One-hundred thousand men meet here to do mock battle in the new kind of war atomic. Exercise Flash Burn began on Friday morning at 0600 with in discriminate dropping of atomic bombs, old boilers, GI cans and overshoes, to- the multitudio'us chorus of handshaking and back- slapping generals singing the old its. Despite all the gnashing of teeth that will take place down on South Columbia Street during this parched Germans weekend, it ap pears that this "temporary" visiting agree? ment is more permanent than the fraternities want to admit. Our guess is that the Adminis tration has come up with a coup, and that as long as women are around, it will be a very long time between drinks indeed for the fra ternity men and lor a long time to come. , Painful as that prospect must, be to the Greeks, we bet the coeds get a certain secret pleasure out of the new agreement. After all' they could never drink in fraternity houses Army song, "On with -the war anyway, and it has always irked them to have to leave the room while imports lift glasses with the boys. Now no mixed company can mix drinks, and we think we etect a hint of satisfaction under the coed curls. Three hundred years aro, Abraham Crow ley stated the coed position in a prophetic cnouSh to question the advis rhyme that went this way: abmty of usinS Paratroopers ex- what's a tew million bucks to the taxpayers?" . The 82nd Airborne Division dropped into Aggressor territory to win the war. No one was killed, but the injuries were extensive "Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?" So if there is a bright spot in this dry week end, we'd say it's the new dawning of coed import equality. Now, if you'll pardon us, we'll head for Hogan's. . Sweetness & Light On The Economic Front We don't know about the rest of the 160, 000,000, but we are getting disgruntled. At what? At that message fresh every morn ingthat the national economy continues ticking at the tempo of a new watch- We are not disgruntled at the substance of this news; we would jump with alarm if we thought it is . not essentially true. What rubs us the WTong way is having this little piece of in formation served, an inevitable albatross, with every morning's cup of coffee. Coffee always has its 7 a. m. savor, but a daily mes sage from the President or the Council of Economic Advisers is soon relegated to the background. There it always stands, emitting not a soothing tone but a rasp. If the economic situation has moved into that danger area which merits a daily mes sage on the beat of Wall Street's pulseand judging by the daily word chart it has this seems to be a time for neither glib optimism nor dank pessimism. It is a time for realism of thought and action. We might start pondering the fact that unemployment has hiked from a post -.war low of 1,162.000 to 3,725,000 or we might study the muddled estate of reciprocal trade cept in parades. I " didn't get to see the heavy supply drop, but a lieutenant colonel commented the following to me later: . "Private, the Republicans have done it again. We were standing in a drop zone, waiting to umpire the ground action, when all hell broke loose. The sky filled up with cottage cheese puffs directly above -us. A minute later, what had been jeeps trucks and heavy guns were now items of interest to any enterprising scrap dealer. It made no difference how big a chute was used. One jeep flipped out of a plane without any chute at all and arrived at our feet in exactly the same condition as the jeep next to it which had two chutes attached." tES " IK1 'WTRHirtes AMP 3ATgS Oppenheimer In Retrospect Drew Pearson Observers from every major country in the world stood and gaped at this casual demonstra tion of American economy meas ures, while a brigadier" general coughed into his khaki-colored Irish linen handkerchief and his Australian guest mumbled apolo getically, "Win one, lose one, old chap ..." . Two thinning Democrats nod ded knowingly to one another while a wrelI-known Republican leader pulled at his ear. A gen eral suggested luncheon and staff cars, whisked the observers from every major country in the world off to cocktails nd beef att jardine. Back at the front the war paused, too. Draftees and regulars left the foxholes for the chow lines. A lanky Georgian returned from being killed by an atomic blast, extolling the advantages of his death. He had been taken to a rear area for burial and had bought 13 boxes of Hershey bars at the PX. On the way back to his outfit We'd like a little Schubert with our sup- with his hew life, he sold all but per. Lenoir Hall, we susreest, could pipe 23 candy bars, which he saved in music for its customers (it did, once upon a time) and add greatly to Gracious Living in Chapel Hill. . . agreements. Think us new thoughts, inform us new in formation drones. But drone us no meaningless Gracious Living III The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published . daily except Uonday, examination and vaca ; tion periods and dur- ing the official sum i mer terms. Entered as. ' second class matter at s the post office ia - Chapel Hill, N. C. un der the Act of March . 3, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semester; J delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. ' ' ' i - Sjie of thenivtrwty : Norlh M"oliii whkh fjrtt opcrunl ts doors in JQutry V it Editor Managing Editor Associate Editors Sports Editor Business Manager News Editor Society Editor Librarian Asst. Sports Editor ' Subscription Manager . Advertising. Manager Asst. Subscription Manager Asst. Business Manager Night Editor for this issue: Fred PowlQdge for his buddies at 15 cents apiece. Now he had paid a dollar to an unsuspecting private for his "wounded in action" tag and was off again to reap the fortunes of war. The rains came at 1330, as they had every day at 1330. The off duty sunbathers at Umpire Head quarters cursed the Army Weath er Service and their rainmaking devices as they dashed for the barracks, though no ne knew for sure whether it was an experi menting man or a prankish god causing the discomfort. Inside Umpire Headquarters, General Ridgway and the observ ers from every major country in the world were briefed on the methods of controlling the ma neuver. Everybody liked the briefing: Comfortable chairs, lieu tenants running everywhere giv ing out information pamphlets, captains handing the pamphlets to the fieuteants, lieutenant col- R0LFE NEILLjrf ODels watching approvingly, col- - " ATI file l?of nllin ( 4TkA limttnn n vi w'w TTonmiij v.ic ucuicuoui cm onels approvingly, and generals watching everybody approvingly. For the few privates present, the event was a singular one. Never again in their Army ca reers would they feel the light of so much approval. The happiness spread outside. The sun came out. Drivers rubbed the rain off the highly polished staff carsi lined up in glistening formation in .order of the occu pant's importance. Sunbathers returned to the lawn behind the barracks and the war . was on again. CHARLES KURALT CHUCK HAUSER, LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER JOHN HUSSEY AL SHORTT Jerry Reece Eleanor Saunders ' Connie Marple Dick Barkley ; Tom Witty Jack. Stilwell. : ; Eugene Polk Tom Shores WASHINGTON It is no secret that Joe McCarthy has been nurs ing as a trump-card the charge that Communists held up produc tion of the hydrogen bomb and that Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, onetime head of Los Alamos, was responsible. Joe had planned to spring this charge in his Texas speech so its headlines, would blanket the newspapers next day when the Senate probe of the McCarthy-Cohn-Army fracas be gan. It has also been no secret that the H bomb was delayed not 18 months as Joe alleged but for about three months. And the story of the delay was published in this column on Jan. 23, 1950, before Joe made any of his char ges about Communism in govern ment. The backstage story did not involve Communistic motives, but, as Chairman Sterling Cole of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, a Republican, has stated, honest differences of opinion. Four years have passed since the question of whether or not the U.S.A. should build the hyd rogen bomb was debated by the Truman Cabinet, and during that time many people have forgotten the doubts and misgivings of that period. They have also forgotten how Henry L. Stimson, a Repub lican who served in the cabinets , of Taft and Hoover, proposed to Truman that the United States share the secret of the atomic bomb with Russia. Elder States man Stimson, no traitor to his country, was overruled by Tru man, but he sincerely believed at that time, 1945, that we could still get along with Russia and should share our most precious secret. Here are excerpts from the story of the hydrogen-bomb de bate, as recorded in this column . when the battle was hot, Jan. 23, 1950. four years before McCarthy decided to dig it up as a national issue: Backstage Story - "At a secret meeting with Gen eral Bradley, Atomic Energy Chairman Lilenthai made a last ditch, emotional plea against the hydrogen bomb. In effect, he said: 'We must exhaust every means of reaching an agreement with Russia to outlaw atomic warfare before we make this bomb. We should appeal over the heads of the Kremlin to the Russian peo ple. They will force Stalin to come to terms.' "Lilienthal speaks for a tor mented group of scientists who ' made the atomic bombs used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and who agreed somewhat against their better judgment that the bombs cities. ,'Tt is still a secret in the files of the Manhattan district, but the atomie scientists were sharply divided into three groups. One did not want the bomb used at all. .They urged that the Presi dent announce that we had the bomb and would use it unless the enemy surrendered. t 'Group No. 2 wanted the atomic bomb dropped over an uninhab ited area as a warning. : "Group No. 3 approved the ac tion taken at Hiroshima. This included Dr. Robert Oppenheimer and Dr. Harold Urev. "But when the photographs of seared flesh and the medical re ports from Nagasaki and Hiro shima came back, these scientists vent through the tortures of the damned. Thir souls were on fire, and they started a burning pri vate crusade against the hydro gen bomb that has divided the Atomic Energy Commission. Russia refused to accept the Ba ruch proposals for inspection-. That was the great shock of our times. Now we cannot afford not to make the new hydrogen bomb. We must maintain our superior ity over any possible aggressor. That is the chief hope left for peace.' "From the beginning of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lil ienthal and Strauss have been in different corners. During the first year, Strauss was a lone dissent er. He offered to resign, but Pres ident (Truman refused. Today, Strauss is the majority leader in the commission and his view on the hydrogen bomb is backed by both the National Security Coun cil and the Atomic Energy Com mittee of Congress. "The difficult decision of. whe ther to build the dread hydrogen- Semesters: No Good? ' Editor After a year of .fuming and frustration (andl do so hate to be frustrated) I have come to one general conclusion concerning- the semester system: its no damn good. There 'are a whole lot of arguments against the' semester system, some of them logical. But I don't expect to convince those ivy-covered knights-errant who venture forth to- do battle for conservative education; logic doesn't appeal to them much, anyhow. Maybe, though, the chem majcf who needs 6 lab courses a year and can only take four (without moving to Venable bag and baggage) will understand. . - My roommate has an 8 o'clock class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 10 is his first dass on Tuesday, Thufsdiy and Saturday. I wish. I had. an "A" for every time he's gotten up at 8:00 on Sat- " then here's going to the same class every Other day. In some courses I've got that's three times a week too often. Going to these classes is always a problem, but when you can't remember what in the . world the last class was about (as if it was impor tant), it's a helluva problem. Now, I admit that taking a course over 4 months instead of 3 is more leisurely, and I'm strong foi leisure, but when I have to relearn the first half of it the day before the exam, it is that it isn't at" all leisurely. In fact, it's downright hectic. - The reason I have to learn it all the day before the exam is because being as there are fewer classes per course in a semester than there are in a quarter, and the same amount of work (or maybe even mote), it's impossible to have "a break between the end of classes and the beginning of exams. IThis revelation came as a shock to South. Building. As I remember it, their only excuse for' the semester system be sides that everybody else was doing it was that we would get some tine for review betweea classes and finals. Surprise. . ' So you're saying, "Why don't you review before the day before exams?" Well, IH tell you. I'm try ing to finish my 6 texts, 7 parallel books, 11 articles, and 2 term papers. "All right," you say. "Why didn't you finish them sooner? What's a vacation for anyway?" There you got me. Besides, I'm , a slow reader.. You say, "Stop crying, aren't you getting to take ah extra course?" Not only that I have to take an extra course. And in the case of Chemi 1-2-31 I have to take an extra half year to get where I would have been in a year under the quarter system. And somehow, I don't quite appreciate a tenth course at the expense of the other nine. Not only that, for some reason (and this may qualify me for a case study in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology) it's harder to carry five courses than it is to carry three. At this point, I'd like to invite some long-suffer- . ing semesterite to elucidate on any. conceivable advantages the semester system has, especially since its avowed purpose was to make Saturday classes a little more bearable. (Note that the semester system is not required by the .Trustees, only Saturday classes.) What was ; passed off as a convenience, turns out to be a con niance.' I. think consolidation is just dandy ami I don't know whatall, but isn't it about time we got some benefits from it," instead of this damn semester' system? Charlie Wolf Meet Kerr Scott Bob Byrd l,lv : : 1 Thus is the first of , a series of partisan articles on the Scott-Lennoii campaign for tile Senate, which bomb is now up to. President c"wtafs in the Democratic primary election May 11 V Truman." Looking Back The above is the basic story of the debate oyer the H-bomb. Since then, other details hava become known, but it doesn't change the basic story. It has become known, for instance, thai the debate over building thelH- 29. The Lettrton side' gets a turn at bat hi this space next week. Editor.) ' '"" . . r s X Ih the, past few weeks a number of allegations have been levied against kerr Scott. It is the purpose' of this article, to explain .why they have not been rebutted by Mr. Scott. ; ' " ' . - ; ' In the opening campaign speech delivered by Governor. Scott at Chapel .Hill on February 10, he embraced the Code of Ethics for Political CamtoaiVn bomb began right after the Kus- adopted. by Ycung Democratic Clubs of North "i r!xir .1aJ.j l -i ' ' 4' Carolina and Rii til ' ihaf n-rvniri ia uj t iiiou cijiuucu iueir nasi A-uomQ ,y nuwu ic ma cuustant on Sept. 23, 1949. During the jdeaypr to observe to.. the letter", the principles;'!, debate, however, our scientific code,, The purpose of the code as stated in its preamoie is: ".Elections may be conducted with the View of obtainini honest and able officers to exeV else the will arid serve the good of the democracy, and this cannot be achieved if campaigns are' to degenerate; to name-calling, character assassination, and deliberate distortion of fact. A fair and honest presentation of the issues should be more important to every candidate than the winning of public kmn I jL . .... , I J DAVID LIUKNT11AL work on the H-bomb, continue so that little if any time was lost because of the debate. ' One point made during the de bate was that the United States had a large enough stockpile of atom bombs to do the .work of many hydrogen bombs, , and that the only difference between the two types of bombs was that of destructive intensity. "The spirit of these scientists was expressed by Dr. Oppen heimer to a Congressional hear ing as follows: 'Many times we scientists thought the war might end before we had a bomb. But some of us did not stop, because we wanted the world to see the atomic bomb. It was to us thr; greatest argument for ' world peace.' Strauss Strongly Backed "These scientists and Lilien thal are planning to organize a lobby of church groups to carry Inasmuch as a great many peo ple consider his column radical and biased politically, I should think that you folks would at on the 'crusade' after Lilienthal's least want to Hive the other sidP resignation from " the Atomic: of the political oicture hvhaxdn? vujiuinssioQ in reoruary. "The other side in the hydrogen-bomb argument is ' champ ioned by a philosopher and ex banker, Lewis Strauss. Strauss is quoted as saying, 'All hope of international agreement to outlaw should be dropped, on enemy the atom bomb was killed when The code then goes on to amplify those practices which are deemed unethical in any political cam paign. Such practices included are: 1. Back-street tactics 2.. Gossip 3. Rumor 4. Whispering campaign 5. Appeal of any nature, in any degree, to racial, religious, or othei' prejudices; Tn recent months, some of Scott's opponents have offended the sense of decency of the people vt North Carolina by their violation, not only of the ' Code of Ethics for Political Campaigns, mrfof more oasie standards of honesty. In spite of this; Gov-" ernor Scott has not employed the tactics used br his adversaries. No doubt the use of such practices' ' is to some degree - politically, expedient: This raises the question of why Mr. Scott has not adopted siieh ST tfo 6 USed 111 the Iast senatorial campaign m North Carolina and Which are now being used hy tnat same group of men against him. ' ' He answered this question at the very outset of h!S campaign even before his opponents "had heen -' driven by desperation to use of -prejudice by whispers, innuendo. half-tr,,th r.Z i . Ui vjtuti, paeugea io the peoDle nf KnriU FuHon Lewis Jr. Carolina that his forces wouln t;y ..L, . fl I hate to think of the youthful ' but always by the rules." This rurLTTh ' answer, lies with lies, half-truths with halfWtX prejudices with prejudices. Rather, if requires that the heatof prejudice and emotion nnA-AM v. . Ashton B. Collin, answered by the cold sobriety of truth nd nlJPht New York, N. Y. - eomcnt. This is Governor. Scotta position. ? YOU Said If Concern For Youth Editor: ; As a subscriber to The Daily Tar Heel I notice that you folks reg ularly publish the column by Drew Pearson. minds at Chapel Hill becoming biased by having to read Pear son's column every day. -
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