From The Daily Athenaeum
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It happened recently during the Senate
investigation hearing of the McCarthy-Army
feud Without once, lifting J his hand, Maj.
Gen. Miles Reber deftly hung a. (G. David)
Schiner on the pugnacious senator from
Wisconsin. ;
Obviously miffed With McCarthy over
charges that Reber's brother was . permitted
to resign an important State Department
post while under investigation by the com
mittee as a security risk, the general pounced
on Schine with a verbal assault that immedi-.
ately' set the senator to screaming foul.
Reber charged that never in his ten years
of association with the Congress had he seen
such pressure exerted on behalf of one indi
vidual, which brings us around to the ques
tion under discussion in the investigation:
Did McCarthy try to use his committee in
vestigation at Fort Monmouth to blackmail
the Army on behalf of Schine? Or, did the
Army attempt to use the Schine affairs to
blackmail the senator into dropping his in
vestigation of the Army?
To the American public it must seem
something like the old trick question "Mose,
do yon. still beat your wife?" Eitherway the v
public has been done a disservice. V
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Orchids For
The Morning After
if you can brush, the crawtyebs Taway this
morning, we're sure you'll join us in the
opinion that Germans was a touser. Louis
Armstrong brought with him the best music
we've ever heard on the campus; and that
adds up to a neat tribute to President Jim
Schenck and the Germans Club, who went
after, and got, the Grandest Old Man of -them
all.
'I Have Here In My Hand '
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Settlement By
What Path?
Sir Roger .Makins, the British Ambassador
to the -United States, has pointed . a - firm
finger at a misconception in American for
eign policy.
Sir Roger, who impressed all who met him
last month in Chapel Hill with his quiet
logic, is being very logical when he suggests
that "negtiation does not equal appeasement
In a speech Wednesday, he warned Ameri
cans not to regard negotiations with Com
munist China as "almost equivalent to sur
render, and therefore something to be
avoided." ' ' ,
His views, of course, reflect basic British
policy at Geneva and are in direct contradic
tion to those expressed by Republican lead
ers in Congress.
The United States, which has largely ig
nored Indochina for the past eight years,
cannot now expect to come up with total
victory at the conference table. The ap
proaches to peaceful compromise should be
fully explored. -
President Eisenhower has said it may be
possible to work out a practical way of get-,
ting along with the Communists in Asia.
We hope it is possible. We hope a settlement
in Indochina by negotiation is possible.
And we hope the United States will re
member its Indochina mistakes When Com
munism menaces Burma, Thailand, and Ma
laya and that this country will "retaliate
from the outset with the development, of
and 4 the utilization of our greatest weapon
the democratic idea.
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H.S.T. Says No Thanks
Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON Harry Truman, onetime rank
. ing member of the Pearson Non Admiration Soci
ety, may bea bit surprised to read this story about
him on the week of his seventieth birthday. But I
hope he won't deny it as he has some stories in
the past.
K. T. Keller, chairman of the Chrysler Corpora
tion, told a group at the famed Bohemian Grove
in California that he had telephoned the ex-President
and told hir.i he wanted him to have a Chrys
ler car.
"Lincolns seamed to have had the inside track
at the White House while you were there," he
told Truman, "and now General Motors is in favor.
But we. want you to use a Chrysler."
Mr. Truman replied that he had been thinking
v "What kind of . a model do you suggest?" he
. about a Chrysler", himself,
asked. v .
"Our best model is the Imperial," Keller replied.
'TThat sounds. a little too swanky for me. What
else do you recommend?"
ever, Mr. President, I hope you realize that we
- "OurNew Yorker is next," said Keller. "How
want you to have this car with our compliments."
Mr. Trumao"- demurred. "I'm a private citizen
now," he said. "I don't think 1 should get any
privileges that wouldn't come to any other private
citizen."
" "But we'll get lots of publicity from this car,
and we want to give it to you," Keller remon
strated. "I don't care if you get a million dollars worth
of publicity. The Office of the President should
not be exploited when when I leave it. I'm going
to have a Chrysler all right. But I'm going to pay
'for it." .
And hOlid. ;This is the car Harry Truman has
,heen driving. ,-
r . "Is there anyone here," concluded Keller as he
told the story to the Bohemian Club group, "who
i would have turned down a similar offer?"
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MCCARTHY
glee over a piace of dynamite they are holding in
reserve to spring on Army Counselor John G.
Adams when he gets on the witness stand.
At fifst blush it might look as if McCarthy had
something. On tecond blush his dynamite looks
slightly damp. Anyway, here are the facts and the
public can judge for itself.
The alleged Ariy scandal pertains to blood
plasma and the purchase of substitute blood plas
ma from the Swedes.
; Since blood plasma is all-important in case of
atomic attack, and since real blood plasma is lim
ited, the Army plans to stockpile a. huge quantity
of a new substitute, Dextran Blood Plasma Ex
pander in fact, two pints for every man, woman
and child in the U.S.A. Lt will be stored ready
for war.- 1
in$ long legal battle, or make a compromise with
Pharmacia.
So he hired a New York lawyer,; Frank A. Bow
ers, as special legal adviser to make a study of the
whole thing.
Bowers finally recommended a compromise ,by
which the Army would pay Pharmacia 10 cents a
pound royalty for Dextran up to 100,000 pounds a
year, with five cents a pound royalty over 100,000.
"A payment, not royalty, of a minimum of
$100,000 for each year," was the exact language
of Bowers recommendation. "If the purchases run
up to 200,000 pounds, there will be a royalty' of
five cents per pound on all blood plasma expander
purchased or produced by the government."
This would add up to an estimated $17,000,000
over the life of the patent, and the Justice Depart
ment raised a howl. They had already ruled that
the patent was invalid and there was no obligation
to the Swedish company. . . -. .
However, Counselor Adams backed the compro
mise. And in rm unpublished letter to Secretary
of the Army Stevens, April 5, he wrote:
"It is recommended that a settlemenet be. sought
with Pharmacia, if you concur. I shall prepare the
appropriate letter to the Department of Justice
outlining the views stated and recommended . ...v
revoke the adjustment act order and negotiate
on the basis that the patient is at least of. ques
tionable validity. The negotiations would tatfe into
consideration that the claimants, Pharmacia, have
contributed very valuable information to the field
of blood plasma expander." . ..
' It was when this leaked out that Joe McCarthy
began chortling. McCarthy aides discovered that
Pharmacia's lawyers in New York are Fish, Rich
ardson and Neave, of which Frank A. Bowers is
reportedly a member.. ;
In other words, Counselor Adams, the man
McCarthy hates; apparently had played right into
McCarthy's han'ls by appointing as so-called neu
tral counsel a man who worked for the Swedish
firm's law firm.
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' ; Joel U Fleishman
one of the worst inconsisten-
r ips in moaern-uay vv"
Tfie Eye Of The Horse
Roger Will Coe - r
thinking . is the way Jn., whjcli 'he
public categorizes all thought as
being at either one extreme end
or the other extreme end of .the
spectrum. This apparent 'polariza
tion of the extremes is something
which is foreign to the tradition
ally American fabric. This is a
country which ha always prided
herself on having a generally
"middle-of-the-road" philosophy
on all things'. Of course the mid
dle of the road has changed from
time to time as the edges of the
road have gone to the right or to
the left, ' But the predominant,
average path .has been the center
way not. reactionary and not rad
. ical but now conservative and
then liberal. This, is true of the
thinking of the American public,
not necessarily of the American
politicians. fThis group" of people
generally are 'very; slow to re
spond to the attitudes of the tim
es. ; .:,'
Because of this categorization
of the extremes, a real danger to
the survival of America.n culture
exists, rrhis is exemplified, in such
statements as the, one attributed
to a certain' United States Senator
from a predominantly dairy state
in the Mid-West. He said, in ref
erence to an author, that the au
thor was a "Communist . type
or non-Communist-type, it is easy
to see the threat. The general
public considers itself as doing
things in a non-Communist way.
Ipso facto, thing3 done in ' a way
which the public considers a Com
munist way are un-American and
subversive.
However, a Swedish firm, the Pharmacia Com
pany, has filed patient claims on Dextran and
demands a royalty from the United States. With
a goal of two pints for every pierson, this obviously
would run into a lot of money, and it was at this
point that Army Counselor John G. Adams stepped
into the picture. It's also why McCarthy has been
rubbing his hands with glee.
For the Justice Department has declared Phar
macia's patientr invalid, and though Pharmacia
immediately , appealed to the courts, Adams, as
Army counselor, had to decide whether to accept
the Justice Department's word and get involved
This revolution in - American
thought is in evidence throughout
the entire scope ,. of American
thinking on every subject. Let us
take two examples. ,
In war there is no such thing
any longer as a limited war. All
international conflicts must be ut
terly total. The use of the popula
tion in the war machine" must be
total. The destruction wreaked
upon, the enemy must bet as total
as possible. Finally, the enemy is
expected to surrender uncondi
tionally and the peace terms .are
totally to the benefit of the vic
tor and generally leave the van
quished in a state of total col
lapse. On the international scene,
any effort at compromise has be-,
come appeasement. ,.
In political, economic and so
cial thinking, it has become im
possible to be a liberal without
also being a radical and a Com
munist. It is unthinkable to be
a conservative without also being
a reactionary and fascist. Conse
quently, " anyr person .. who dis
agrees with c your . philosophy
could be labeled with the extreme
position on the other side of the
spectrum. . ;- ...
In a democratic government
with a two-party "system and a na
tion ruled by the precepts of
freedom in all things, such cate
gorizations can only operate
eventually to the detriment of the
national fabric. This is particular
ly true when, for all intents.' and
purposes, the United States is en
gaged in a conflict with the Cora
rounist Soviet Union. Any person
who espouses unpopular opinion
automatically becomes an extrem
ist. Due to the nature of the pre
sent crisis and the present lay of
the. political, economic, and social
road,' he is labeled a Communist,
or ; a .Communist-type thinker,
whatever that may be. Regardless
of what it may be, it certainly is
not regarded as good.
' ("The H&rse sees imperfectly, viagnifying earns
things, minimizing others. , . Hipporotis, circa
500 B.C.) . ; v
THE HORSE was the center of furious activity
near Graham Memorial, when I saw ; him. Some
pretty xoo-eds were attacking his hooyes"'with hea,
vy rasps; the Graham Memorial barber was direct
ing a crew of men in applying hedge-shears to The
Horse's ;shaggy gray coat; Mett Ausley, of the Den
tal School, was standing on a ladder so Simonize
The Horse's "newly installed ivory keyboard. OtU
Pendergraft was spraying gray enamel paint in the
wake of the hedge-shearers. , . - . '
"Getting ready for the T-V tryouts,'' The Horsa
bluAed spraying Ausley with tooth ..'Simonize.
Manicure, haircut, hair-dressing, tooth-glaze the
works,' Bpy, this guy Detective Friday will find out
he isn't the only pebble on the beach." t ,
' Froin what'I heard of the technical difficulties
of T-V, I thought 'stone in the kidney' would better
describe it than pebble on the
beach But, what T-V tryouts
were these? . ,
"The" . University, of, North
Carolina's own Educational T-y
program," The, Horse . stated
proudly. "The only such prograna
by a state college in the worM
Or . . a private, college, .for that
matter. Yep, we're on our. way,
Roger, nie ' bhoy... The., station
swings into action with the open
ing of the university .this Fall" .
. Well, who were tiying out for what? . ;
.' "Heck, just everything," The Horse stated, pur
ring like a kitten as the coo-eds rasped his. hooves
into shape. "Actors, acterines, pupeteers, technici
ans, singers, monologists anything and every
thing!" ( . , - .
When were the tryouts?
VMay 11, at 4 p. m., and May 15 at 7:30 p.m., . at
Memorial Hall," The Horse said, biting Doc Au
ley's hand in the process. "Don't miss them."
. Doc Ausley remarked that if The Horse bit him
once more, The, Horse would be missing his teeth.
The noble steed ignored the uncouth suggestion
with a flirt of his tail that caused a coo-ed to yelp
and stare suspiciously at a barber.
"This is a critical hour, Roger, and UNC needs
its great gang of eds and coo-eds as it never needed
them , before! We are presented an opportunity to
do a bang-up job, and hundreds of people are need
ed.", : ;'
What was the pay?
"Are you kidding?" The Horse snorted. "Profes
sional directors direct you, . professional camera
men ' photog you, professional writers write your
scripts, professional make-up people make you up,
professional sound-crews . sound you. . .or whatever
it is they do. . And when the productions are letter
perfect, you show before millions of people all over
the state, under the auspices of the Raleigh college,
the Greensboro college, and the Chapel Hill uni
versity. Gee, how many Cinderella stories might
there be written, in the persons of unknown, tal
ented students and faculty and townspeople, to go
on to big-time in commercial T-Vl"
Huh? In Memorial Hall, with thera there lousy
anti-acoustics?
. "You dope, the T-V microphones can make a
reedy voice into a noon-whistle at the old factory,"
The Horse explained. "Wait until they hear me
sing!"
I thought I and the rest of us could wait a lonf.
long time for that. :
. "Well," if Tm going out, anybody can," The Hors
said. "True, I may go out on my, er, haunches. But
by gum, I'm Tar Heel enough to go out! No kidding,
WUNC:TV needs us, every one. A millions bucks
of gift-money has gone into this thing, but it will
take, millions of dollars worth of love for UNC on
the part of these great kids and these loyal elders
of ours, to get the good out of the gift-money,' I
don't, think we'll be let down!"
I didn't, either. Not on May iltat 4:00 p. m.; and
on May 13 at 7:30 p. irn. at Memorial Hall. Or ever.
Let's gooooooooooooo, North Carolina. '
Quote, Unquote
This entire tendency is one
which acts to eliminate the ''cul
tural freedom previously enjoyed
in this country. It has become un
wise for anyone without an inde
pendent income to express views
which are ot generally held. .This
means a complete negation of the
very things which bur 'ancestors
held so dear: freedom of tha
press, freedom of speech, freedom
of opinion, freedom of petition,
etc. - ,-. , . . .
. For greatness In a government is not to be found
in money honesty alone, in wisdom and vision in the
formulation of primary policy, or even in unfailing
expertness in spy-catching. There must be, beyond
all these, a quality of what, if you please, I can
only call justness the meeting of the popular ex
pectation that government is a protector of the
basic equitieslwith a compassionate eye? and a strong
arm to see that each individual, no matter how weak
; With this" capstone virtue, government tan com
mand, in the phrase of a respected legal authority:
or unappealing, is diealt wit h.f airly and justly:
" . . . that loyalty on the part of thfe citizen which
never fails to arisa from the confidence that justice
will always be done.'" Without it, io' quote again;
" . . . government writes its own epitaph . . . "
And in these trying times, no government and cer-
The prospects for the present tainly not one that bears the fateful responsibliUes
are certainly not bright ones. The ?.the government of the United States can afford
persons ivho claim the headlin eg to jeopardiae that loyalty. For the price tags on
in "the national press are those Pace t and freedom which the government ; must
who give Voice to the worst forms ..collect from its citizens are forbearance and sacri-
of this categorization of, the ej;- fic and effort and these are not eagerly given by
tremes, Sydney Webb's statement disillusioned.
SS-hL6 Americans hav-I am confident,'. i strongly 'de-
untme. , 7 veloped sense of fair play,. It is a rock against which
, " many tides of racial and religious intolerance have
" The signs on the; horizons are beten in the past, . dangerously, but vainly. At the
hot clear. It is possible that the mQment there . mounting currents of, repression
American people realize the da "d ttV m0tin' m
gerous impHcations:of ,his lrS!
osophy and are beginning to dls- expediency. But these, too. in timewill pass iwa
card it. fThe future of American if the rock is not driven by other forces
greatness may depend upon it. ' AJteverwi