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FRIDAY, SEPTETS 1. Kl PAGS TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL The Detached W. Averill Harriman W. Averill Harriman will move into the teeth of a stern test when he runs against the- Republican candidate, Senator Irving Ives, for the governorship of New York. But the thoughts of many on this camp us, will, be with Mr. Harriman. Not that he, viewed at a distance, does not have a bilities and talents as a statesman that win him supporters; but he gained many friends when he spoke two years ago-on this campus under the auspices of the Car olina Forum. His hearers discovered that the aura of aristocracy and austerity the look of the cracker-dry scholar that ling er; about him deceives. They found him a sincere spokesman for his point of view, lively and courageous. If we have a segment of the noblesse oblige- in the U. S., Harriman represents it. His family has behind it distinguished history in both private and public affairs. He is a wealthy man. But his beacorilight is not his pocket book but his public spirit. Public life, we say, needs more servants who detach their personal backgrounds and motivations from what conscience tells therrf about the needs of the'U. S. It is easy for a, man to be a laissez-faire economist and an isolationist in foreign policy if he owns a big business; it is easy for a man to be a democrat and an internationalist if he lives in the shadow of poverty. Bu it is difficult for one to forget that he comes from the aristoi or that he has wealth and to formulate his opinions - in abrupt detachment from his: genesis and circumstances. And that is just what Aver ill Harriman has done. .. We will be following with interest his fortunes in the rowdy Empire State poli cal ring, and we wish himwell in Novem ber. ' - Carolina Front A Friend Is Worried ABoiif Joe McCarthy : Louis Kraar Opening The Dormitories The . Inter-Dormitory Council and IDC President Manning . Muntzing are to be commended on obtaining for men's dormi tories the most liberal visiting agreement we can remember. Four hours on football Saturdays, of course, isn't much time. But we hope it will turn out to be the first step toward a sensible agreement that can be establish ed after necessary alterations are made in some dormitories. There isn't much doubt that -the Puritan who first planned wo 4 men's -dormitories with vast reaches of "lobbies and ante-rooms and set no such space aside for men has now been outdat ed. : . " - lit is slowly being realized that men are social creatures, too, whether or not they have the inclination to join a fraternity. :: And -if, 'when the University finally gets , . the ' t cnansfes that big, million dollar men's dormitory which the west has brought : that's being planned, there's no living room about since the last big war. in it, the architect should be strangled with his own blueprint. "Just what kind of democracy' has America given, us when you have men like McCarthy?" Taizo Matsui from Waseda University in Tokyo sat across the table from me in the sand wich shop drinking coffee and looking worried. The summer night, had gone by quickly, and before too many hours dawn would be coming up over the foggy Iowa cornfields. "We owe your country a great deal," he said leaning forward I a nttie. You gave us the democratic i n stitutions and freedom.. These are things we like very much. But not we are wondering when we read about your Sen. McCarthy in our newspapers. "We're wondering just what kind of democracy is this Amer ica has given us when we read about : McCarthy. And our peo ple are very worried." - TAIZO AND I had become good friends earlier in the Na tional Student Association Con gress we were attending. But the question he raised was a tough one to answer. I tried to tell him that the Senator from Wisconsin wasn't as powerful as he seemed in Japan; my friend was a student of govern ment, and he knew McCarthy was ' declining in popularity and power. But he was worried. , "You see, in our own country we have had people like this," he said. - ...... "In 1925, a law was passed in Japan that forbade criticizing the government. Then teachers who had certain books were put in jail, and things were very bad. "It seems to us now that your McCarthy is the same way. I have been very happy here to find out the students here are not for McCarthy," Taizo said, reflecting on his first week in this country. MANY NIGHTS he talked until dawn with students from this country. He seemed " hun gry for knowledge about the people who had reshaped the customs of his ancient people. And in our talks, I learned , of Reaction ' In Column 6 A few columns over to the right, you will notice the second installment of "Re action Piece," which will be an isolated, rock-ribbed fortress of conservatism on this page every Wednesday and Friday- this year. - - It is to be written at our request by Da- ted Mundy, with whom The Daily Tar Heel is seldom in agreement, fie is presi dent of the Young Republicans Club on campus, and has the distinction of having expanded that organization's membership rolls to four members from , a previous three. In addition, he is beyond question the outstanding camptis reactionary and a thorn in the side of both political parties, ' Mr. Mundy is not a quiet conservative, either He is vocal and articulate, and us ually completely wrong. We are going to enjoy his column, and we think you will, too. tEfje Batlp ar peel . The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, : , where 'it is published V flaily except Monday, J. y " ' ' 5 examination and vaca te ' ' - ' ' on periods and dur- k . g thfi offkial sum. 1 4 i i. 14 L . in ln.utry ,5 I ' mer terms. Entered as second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, un der the Act of March 5, 1879. Subscription rates: . mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, "? $3.50 a semester. ft "Dating is a new custom that we imported from the United States. It has been very, nice because this is something we never had before,". Taizo paid with a wide grin. He liked to kid and smile, but he spoke of his country with serious in tensity. , . "I went to a party one of my first nights in this country in San Francisco. And I was quite surprised when the. party did not end at 10 or 11 o'clock. It continued until 3 in the morn ing. This is something we do not have yet in Japan." A WAITRESS came and re filled our coffee cups, and the Japanese boy whose father is a towel manufacturer told me about the huge University he attended. Later, I saw pictures of the big, modern campus holding . 25,000 students, "We have a great problem in our union of students,' he .said. "There is a large amount of apathy among the students, at the universities and; colleges. They all have to work in order to attend school, so they have little time for organizations," Taizo .explained. ' I told him a little about Car olina, and he seemed quite ..In terested in campus politics. . . "The communists are. about 100 strong7 on our campus as a party. It is the only so-called party we have. But the 100 out of 25,000 students are very weak, They have virtually no support on campus," he explained. it . I've never could decide what to tell him about McCarthy, ex cept that students . were not in favor of what he does. w , But later Taizo said, "I, would very much like to meet your Sen. McCarthy. I'm going to Washington, and I have asked for a chance to talk with hinu 'Hey : . . What About The Man?' : :- .:..,v. 'i- --.(Ik - - W 4- ! McCarran & The Governor Drew. Pearson WASHINGTON Sen. Pat Mc Carran, the venerable Republican from Nevada, is one of the most blase men in the Senate, He also likes to see politics operate on a self-financing ibasisf. To accom plish this he has a happy faculty for putting state politicians on the federal payroll even though they are doing almost nothing for Uncle Sam, just as long as they are doing something for him in Nevada. ' Take the case of Gov. Charles H. Russell of Nevada, now run ning for re-election. Probably few Nevadans know it, but McCarran kept Russell on the federal pay roll while he was running for governor last time and right up until after he was nominated. What happened was that McCar ran at first encouraged Ex-Governor Vail Pittman to run again for governor, then double-crossed him and backed Russell. He fol lowed this up by putting Russell on the Senate ECA watchdog com mittee, which, just happens to be the only committee whose vouch ers are not audited by the Gener al Accounting Office, a little loop hole, arranged by Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire when he was. chairman of the commit tee during the 80th Congress. The loophole, incidentally, per mitted Bridges to send Ex-Sen. Worth Clark of Idaho on a trip to the orient to report on aid for Chiang ..Kai-Shek without an OK from either Congress or the State Department. In any case, McCarran happily took advantage of the , loophole and , paid Russell $860.85 per month as a so-called committee consultant, during the same time he was running for governor. . , Russell , remained there until June 30, 1950, though nominated for governor on June 1, 1950. t. On . . Decy ,13, 1950 well after Russell's election he wag still drawing expenses, though the vouchers .claimed these expenses covered his earlier service with" the committee. Since the General Accounting Office; could not audit the vouchers, taxpayers will have to take , McCarran's word for it. He sighed the vouchers. Junket To Switzerland .The vouchers themselves show up. av couple interesting items. For example, Russell took a jun ket . ; at committee expense to Switzerland during the tourist season at the Alpine resorts. This might have been considered com mittee business, except that the only purpose of the committee was to oversee the Marshall Plan. And Switzerland was the only country Jn Western Europe that flatly refused to participate in the Marshall Plan, , Another interesting item ori Russell's expense account is air transportation to Reno and rental of an automobile during the March 21-April 24, 1950, period. This happens to be about the same time that Russell was cam paigning for the gubernatorial nomination. During this period, Russell col lected his full Senate salary, plus an additional $315 for 35 days of personal expenses, plus $150 for renting an automobile for "offici al business," plus the air trans portation home.' And it seems DEWEY, . . . Labor turns thumbs down. highly doubtful that there was much ECA business in Rene dur ing the primary campaign. Washington Pipeline Dave Beck, head of the teams ters, paid an interesting cali on President Eisenhower after he got back" from his recent trip to Europe. He told Ike he had dis cussed the Red China" trip of British Labor. Leaders with Her bert Morrison and asked whether the Laborites were now cooperat ing with the Churchill Conserva tives to promote Far East Trade. Morrison denied this, ; said the timing of the trip was unfortu nate. . . . Beck also told Ike that British Atomic energy for peace time uses, was far ahead of the United States, that in a short time they would have an atomic power plant in actual use . . . Eisen hower paid tribute to the , work of free trade unions in stopping communism abroad . . . When the venerable, much-loved "Cap" Harding, Democrat, died the" other day, the man who sent the big gest wreath to his funeral was his political opponent, GOP Congress ' man Dick Simpson of Pennsyl vania. Each was n charge of re electing congressmen of opposing political parties, but sincerely re spected the other. Harding will be sorely missed on Capitol Hill . .". Governor Dewey's Labor Ad viser, Merlyn Pitzele, has advised Dewey that Senator Ives will get heavy AL F. of L. support in the New York race for governor. Other Labor leaders claim that Ives could have defeated The Taft-Hartley Bill had he thrown his weight against it. Marginal Senators followed Ives' lead, how ever, and voted for this amend ment. ... (The depression is so bad in the coal-mining areasof Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky that unemployed miners are being invited to hire out to hospitals for $2.50 a day, plus food, to serve as "normal controls." This doesn't mean they undergo experimental surgery, but eat the same food as sick people and live under the same conditions. Correction Former Vice President Henry Wallace is probably still puzzling over last Tuesday's column. Probably readers are puzzled too. The columhn, which referred to Eisenhower's efforts to study the problems of oakies, arkies and migrant workers, contained this sentence: "Wallace was one of the few government officials who ever tried to migrate across the U.S." Frankly I was thunderstruck when I saw this line in print. So probably was the Wallace Family. The ExVice President, Ex-Secrc-tary of Agriculture did move from Des Moines, Iowa, to Wash ington, to join the Roosevelt Cab inet and now lives on a farm north of New York City. But he certainly did not migrate across the United States in the usual sense of the word, and he certain ly was no migrant farm hand. So I looked up the column as I originally wrote it. It read: "Wal lace was one of the few govern ment officials who ever tried to do much about the oakies, arkies and itinerant farm hands who mi grate across the U. S." What hap pened was that the teletype ope rator skipped one line. My-apologies. The Ram 5ees We dropped in on tne Interfra ternity Council meeting last night to see what was what oh the vis iting agreement, and we got ah interesting insight on just how much work is being done these days to make sure everybody gives the appearance of comply ing with Dean Weaver's hew set of unenforceable drinking rules. The Dean has gone too far, al though he doesn't realize, it yet. He won't be burned in effigy a gain this year; there will be no turtle in the Y Court like the one last spring which had., its back painted with the slogan "I Hate Fred." None of that will go on, because the boys . have , found there is an easier way to beat Weaver at his own game: They'll just sort of pretend like he's not there.- . Reaction Piece David Mundy THE NSA COMMITTEE on freedom .of college newspapers; may. possibly become one of the smartest "blackmail" threats in years. Just let someone criti cize a - college ; newspaper now; he will be headlined as .one of those damned fascist, McCar thyite, reactionary. (i.e. Repub lican),; enemies of that "great and glorious freedom for which our fathers fought and . died," the freedom of speech. The liberals and those to the leftward) ... . have entrenched themselves on , most . college campuses, ,and t. are quite , un likely to receive any, challenges to their : control. JTheir . position is even . stronger when the mere existence ofsuch a committee is able to threaten possible , critics with unfavorable publicity. ' COLUMNIST DREW P. (pro nounced as spelled) has been complaining about Sen. Mc Carthy's income taxes. The Democrats were never able to prove anything wrong with his returns, . and apparently Mr. Brownell can't either. ? (Don't think he wouldn't like to' do so.) Columnist Pearson is having very real troubles, though, to the tune of several thousand un paid tax dollars. Maybe Drew will become an Atlanta resi dent. He would be safe there, especially since they filled up the unused sewer through which four convicti escaped last week. INCONSISTENCY OF THE WEEK is the hullabaloo over the IFC executive session. The TFC has either something to hide or something that it does n't want publicized in the Daily Tar Heel. Sounds like hiding be hind the fifth amendment, does n't it? The same persons who so strongly oppose any change in the fifth amendment are the ones complaining so loudly and capitalizing on the IFC's secret meeting: The IFC might avoid further trouble by dubbing its private meetings as "Fifth Amendment Sessions." . The campus party lineup is amazingly like the national. One party, composed of. the "smarter" politicians, generally comes out on top. They use the formula proved so successful by the liberal elements in American politics: Promise the voters any thing they might want, social security, pensions, subsidies, or Coke machines, social rooms, co ed visiting agreements, and no Saturday classes. Promises are generally filled, since everyone wants to be re-elected. Next year we may even bz promised maid service in the dorms. WHOOP! Everyone convenient ly forgets, however, that to pay off takes money, studentmoney. This year it took- three dollars more than last. The other party is a bit more staid and conservative, and rolls along apparently unawae of the value of demagogery. Their promises don't have that flair of-'- appeal . that garners vote. They have allowed the im pression to grow that theirs is a more boss-ridden party than the other. Their members ap pear to be a, bit more mature than those of the other party. A bit more aware that the im pulses driving people to seek recognition in. petty campus politics should have passed with adolescence.. The best way for them to win elections might be to. stress something new in cam pus politics; a cut in student fees, and the elimination of fi nancial support to those activi ties which attract at most only a few "would be" BMOCs. It is very unlikely however, that any politician on. campus will favor, the elimination of any such expenses; it would either eliminate him or a friend from some, possible prominence. The latter campus party is unlikely fo try any innovations. They are the safest politicians, and the least likely to be elected. Ap parently Carolina students like to live dangerously with their politics. The Eye Of The Ho -Roger Will Coe (The Horse sees imperfectly, magnifying some things, minimizing others. Wpporctis. Circa 500 B. C.) THE HORSE was guzzling coffee, and rapidly, at the Scuttlebutt's version of a Parisian sidewalk cafe, when I sa'w him. "Neatness and Culture apparently do not mix." he replied, to, jny query ftnent his. speedy dispatch of a king-sized coffee. "It is amazing that with a trash-receptacle close ; at . hand, the eds and coo eds leave bits of sandwiches, gobs of paper wrap, pools .of spilt milk and soft drinks, and other in numerablia'.of evidence of Cultured Eating,. ! got ta hurry, Roger; it is . a. moot question whether I get my 'coffee, or the flies and the bees get it." , Despite the motley of factual proof that litter ed the tables of, this.al freico eatery, I thought The Horse had it wrong: a neat, or cultured, mind and . neat habits were .more often found ia accord than in apposition. .However,, the bees hovering close to one's cup. did present an adventure in eat ing, I had to admit. .."It. rivals' our Chapel Hill Greek restaurants for excitement," The Horse conceded. "However, if you swallow a bee, thats that and an end to it, not to mention , an end to the bee; whereas it you swallow enough of what my estimable Greek friends who operate eateries here in The Hill pass off on you as food, it may be an end to you. How soever it does, solve the living problem for the local docs. I. bet.; they owe more income to our restaurants than to any other single contributory factor to human malaise, and' I include in this the output of Irish Green Beer for which one dispen ser thereof is noted." Was The Horse suggesting . that Greece and grease were synonohlous? "I will no. the punning for this team, Roger," The Horse rebuked me. "But speaking of adven tures in eating one of , our local Impressarios de "Bite: to keep him completely anonymous, let us say his name is East, and he operates the food snappery in The Emblem Club overheard a valued and cultured snapper say to a friend, 'The next time you eat at The Emblem, be sure to ask for Jacqueline for a waitress. Jacqueline is an adventure in eating.' "So Mr. Earnest East, as we shall call him, watched Jacqueline take an order from a table of four, the very next meal this friendly and zeal ous waitress served. All seemed as usual as the customers filled out their order-ticket in pencil, and surrendered it to the girl. Their water-glasses were filled, ashtrays were clean and in place, everything shipshape. Mr. East followed Jacque line to the kitchen and watched and listened as she called to the chef, with her eyes on the precisely-written order-ticket: 'One o'dah o' Fry Shrimp; one Club Samwich; one Lunch; one Suh loin Steak.' Back went Jacqueline with the four rders, and back went Mr. East to observe. '''You's de Shrimp, " Jacqueline cheerfully told a lady, who was anything but a shrimp. " 'An' de other lady Is a Lunch.' " " 'But, I ordered the Fish!' " the unshrimplike lady protested. "And I ordered the Lime Sherbert Salad Plate" the second lady objected. "Just . outa dem," Jacqueline cheerfully misstat ed the case. "You's de Suhloin an' de odder gen' mun is de Samwich," she informed the startled men at the table, who had ordered Chow Mein and Liver-and-Bacon respectively, "Yo desserts will follow." "That," one of the men said caustically, "will be interesting to experience. Thank you." The Horse put a tail to his tale as follows: "The suave Boniface of The Emblem Club fol lowed the cheerful Jacqueline into the kitchen and inspected her order-ticket. . .the which she had so artistically pretended to read from. And he lent an attentive ear while Jacqueline read or pretended to, for such was the case directions to the chef from another order. As anybody even so bereft of normal reasoning powers such as you are, Roger, must already have concluded, Jacque line simply could not read. And Chapel Hill be ing the considerate community it is, and Mr. East of the Emblem Club being the understanding gen tleman he is, Jacqueline continued for some months to be An Adventure In Eating until green er and less literate pursuits summoned her else where." Well, that could be. At any rate, I'd rather be surprised by Jacqeuline with something that I did n't order, than with a bee, which I also did not order. At least, what Jacqueline brought had stop ped moving. I felt sure Scuttlebutters would br gin to be neater. - ; ."Wump!", Mr. Wump whumped, from inside the empty trash-receptacle. . ; Editor : CHARLES KURALT Managing Editor FRED POYLEDGE Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODEIl Sports Editor J TOM PEACOCK Business Manager AL SIIORTT News Editor Society Editor : Circulation Manager ; Subscription Manager " Advertising Manager Assistant Business Manager Durham Adv. Manager .J Librarian . Jerry Reece Eleanor Saunders Dick 07,Val T;;vV'itty Dick Sirkin Tom Shores Ed Lipman Connie Marple EDITORIAL STAFF Bill O'Sullivan, Ron Levin, Carl Williams, John Beshara, David Mundy BUSINESS STAFF Bill Bob Peel, Frank Wilson Jack Wtisel ' MEWS STAFF - Dick Creed, Richard Thiele, Charles Childs, Babbie Dilorio, Warn n Love Eddie Crutchfield, Jerry Mayo, Lloyd Shaw Hal 9 Henderson, Pat Lovatt, Ann Herring, Bobbie Zwahlen. ARTISTS. .Dan Southerland, Braird Mill J Night Editor for this Issue ; uis Kraar
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