FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1954
PACE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
The Case Of The
Government Workers
"Elementary, my clear Warson," Sherlock
Holmes used to tell his sidekick just be
fore he unraveled the solution to a mys
tery. The word from Washington now is that
the Democratic Congress plans a look-see
into the Eisenhower security system. Word
also has it that this investigation will not
he so elementary.
For a number of reasons, many have ob
jected to the security system. Civil rights
advocates have objected because they feel
too much heed has been paid to Defense
Secretary Wilson's idea that "questions of
doubtful loyalty should be resolved in fa
vor of the nation, not the individual."
The Democrats have objected because
irresponsible Republicans have used 8 secur
ity firings as ammunition for their political
cannons. (The "0,926 dismissals" is a case
in point.) Otherwise, it is felt that clear
distinction has not been made between gov
ernment employees and advisers dismissed
for real loyalty reasons and those fired for
"moral irresjxmsibility."
Finally, the Truman loyalty board, a
comt of higher appeal, was scrapped by the
V m blicans; the final responsibility for all
filings was left to the department heads.
This is the atmosphere in which, for two
y -"'"-. individual rights and security re
ci iicnr'ls have been balanced against
each oilier. Just how far the scales have
been tipped away from individual rights
may be seen in the statement of the Cray
Board in the Oppenheimer case that if it
had been allowed to "exercise mature prac
tical judgment" by the security system, its
decision on Dr. Oppenheimer might well
have been different.
The new Congress has every right every
obligation, in fact to don its double-visor-ed
Sherlock Holmes hat, light up its briar
pipe, and take a thorough inventory of. the
state of the security system.
As things stand now, we hear new locks
on civil liberties clicking shut every day.
Girl Watchers
Come Lately
We have received in the mail an invita
tion to become a charter member of the
"American Society of Girl Watchers," an
embryo organization of "refined gentlemen
dedicated to discreet but relentless Girl
Watching."
We accept the Society's premises, that
a girl does not have to know how to tap
dance or sing or make her own clothes to
be beautiful. She does not even have to
know how to count up to ten to be beauti
ful. All she has to be to be beautiful is
beautiful and there is nothing in the world
more beautiful than a girl.
All this is true, but we have turned down
the Society's invitation. It was tendered,
we are sure, through an unfortunate lack
of knowledge on the part of the Society
about what kind of campus this is. It is a
place where organized Girl Watching
would be superfluous because the pastime
is so firmly rooted already in an informal
way.
Girl Watching at Carolina begins with
Freshman Orientation and continues with
out let up through graduation. It is as much
a part of our tradition as the Davie Poplar
or the Chancellor's harmonica. It is a big
ger thing than cross-word puzzle-working
or Daily Tar Heel-cussing.
Girl Watching at 1 Carolina, and we have
so informed the Society, has been proceed
ing successfully for years and doesn't need
conventions, parades and formality to give
it impetus.
Carolina Front.
'It Breaks My Heart To See Those Sad Little Tykes'
Reaction Piece,
Mundy Charge
Against Forum
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IN RARE form that is, wrong
er than usual reactionary colum
nist David Mundy charged the
speaker-procuring Carolina Forum
with "left-wing" partisanship the
other- day.
Night Editor for this Issue
Eddie Crutchfield
And, as us,ual,
a close check in
f.o Mundy 's char
ges proved them
vrong and much
too hasty.
Mundy, who is
not a bad guy
when he's not
columnizing, cit
ed the speakers brought to cam
pus so far this year to back, up
his charges.
But the hasty reactionary failed
to look at the speakers scheduled
for the rest of the school year.
They're all Republicans.
It's true -that so far we've had
speakers representing the left
side of political thinking. But
the spring speakers will warm
Mundy's conservative heart and
allow his charge-hurling typewri
ter to cool.
According to Forum head Joel
Fleishman, this spring Republi
cans Home Capehart, Indiana
senator, Leverett Saltonstall,
Massachusetts senator, and per
haps Everett Dirkson, Illinois
senator, will come to campus.
GIBSON JACKSON, who plays
piano in Danziger's and announces
for a Burlington radio station, re
ceived a "fan letter" the other
day.
The letter said:
"This is a fan letter! I have
heard you several times on the
Burlington station, and it is a re
lief to hear the king's English cor
rectly spoken and foreign names
pronounced as they should be.
If they pay you as much as you're
worth, I am sure the $80 you owa
me will be a mere trifle."
The letter was signed Walter
Creech, Jackson's landlord.
iti& luwtK oi campus
thought and action" at Duke Uni-
versity The Duke Chronicle
went into action against Carolina
the other day without too much
thought for facts.
The Duke student paper came
out swinging against the "pro
fessional liberals" from UNC who
use National Student Association
and State Student LegisYiture
meetings as machines for "per
sonal propaganda."
What the paper objected to in
this flurry of political palavering
is the way Carolina picks dele
gates to the mock legislature in
Raleigh. Duke feels the delegates
should be "accredited" by tho
student government. Here at Car
olina, selection is left to a com
mittee. What Duke apparently doesn't
know is that this committee sub
mits each prospective delegate
to a rigid test on his knowledge
of government, speaking, and par
liamentary procedure.
As for the "professional liberal"
charge a good name-calling de
vice the students who represent
ed UNC at the Raleigh mock le
gislature were both liberal and
conservative, Republicans and
Democratic.
Carolina's delegates included
conservative Republicans like Da
vid Mundy, Manning Muntzig.
and Lewis Brumfield as well as
, liberals like J i m Turner, Joel
Fleishman and David Reid.
When votes were taken, Caro
lina more than any other school
there found its delegation split
"on numerous issues. At one point,
during a debate on the merits of
the Eisenhower Administration,
two Carolina students almost
came to blows.
. Duke's charge was probably
inspired by the sound licking the
Blue Devil politicos suffered at
the hands of Carolina's delegates.
Duke's candidates for several of
ficers were beaten in Raleigh due
to skillful politicking by Carolina
students, and the Western Dur
ham Ivy League emulators are
still bitter. ,
Just like a bunch of "profes
sional conservatives," isn't it?
' ' ' '
Kansas City Star Case
WASHINGTON When the
Kansas City Star and its publish
er, Roy Roberts, were indicted
criminally during the closing
days of the Truman Administra
tion, almost everyone in politics
figured this was one indictment
which wouldn't last long when
the Eisenhower Administration
took over.
For it was big, burly Roy Rob
erts who was among the first to
urge Ike for President, and who
advised with him during the pre
convention draft-Ike campaign.
Furthermore, Roberts, though
under indictment, has been a fre
quent caller at the White House,
has been frequently invited to
the intimate stag dinners the
President gives to a chosen few.
However, two years have now
passed and8 not only has the in
dictment against the publisher of
the Kansas City Star not been
dropped, but the Justice Depart
ment plans to begin prosecution
early next year.
Thereby hangs a significant
story.
The man now in charge of the
Justice Department's Antitrust
Division, Stanley Barnes, a Cali
fornia Republican of the Chief
Justice Earl Warren school of
political thinking, has turned out
to be one of the most forthright
members of he Eisenhower Ad
ministration. He has also turned
out to be just as tough on big
business and on monopoly as any
member of the Roosevelt-Truman
Administration, even perhaps in
cluding famed trust-buster Thur
man Arnold.
It's significant that Judges
Barnes, a former California state
judge, is not playing any politi
cal favorites. A close study of
the case, has convinced him that
it was by no means a political in
dictment brought as a result of
rivalry between Harry Truman
and Roy Roberts, but rather a
bona fide case involving free
dom of the press and the right
of people in Kansas City to ad
vertise w'here they please,, not
where Roy Roberts wanted them
to advertise.
So he's proceeding with the
prosecution.
Revising The Numbers
Game
White House advisers aren't
publishing it, but they have been
busy on a new security program
which will head off the Demo
cratic probe of the so-called "nura
bers game."
This is the game in which
Vice President Nixon, Attorney
General Brownell, and other GOP
campaign speakers have claimed
Republicans cleaned out Demo
cratic security risks which men
aced the government.
The Democrats deny this. And
to prove their case, Sen. Olin
Johnston of South Carolina, chair
man to be -of the Civil Service
Committee, plans a sweeping
probe of Republican firings. He
believes he can prove that one
half the security risks were hired
by Republicans.
To head off this probe, Eisen
hower has referred the whole
problem to the National Security
Council which has already pre
pared Top Secret Report No.
45371 which will not be made
public for some time. However,
it can be revealed that the re
port recommends giving a far
better break to security risks,
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SEN. OLIN JOHNSTON
. . . to probe findings
plus a standardized procedure
for all government agencies, in
stead of the hit and mjss diver
gent systems of firing personnel.
White House advisers are even
considering a plan to help the
accused pay the cost of defend
ing himself, or else making the
cost of defense cheaper. In the
past, men like Val Orwin, one of
the State Department officials
charged by McCarthy with being
a communist, had to raise money
from friends to carry on his
fight. Though indicted, the Jus
tice Department finally went in
to court after four long years and
asked that the indictment be dis
missed on the ground that it had
no case.
Drew Pearson
Similarly, Abraham Chasanow,
the Navy clerk suspended for
one year as a security risk with
no charge placed against him; fi
nally was given an official apol
ogy by the Assistant Secretary
of the Navy and restored to his
job. Chasanow had no funds, but
his attorney, Joe Fanelli, defend
ed him as a public service.
White House advisers also pro
pose separating bona fide securi
ty risks from heavy drinkers,
loose talkers, and misfits, hither
to all linked with loyalty cases
as security risks.
'Democratic Security
Risk'
Here is an illustration of a se
curity risk fired by the Republi
cans and lumped in the impos
ing total of alleged "Democratic
risks" cleaned out of government.
He is John H. MacVey, hired by
the Federal Communications
Commission on Feb. 19, 1954, one
year and one month after Ike
entered office, and one month
and eight days after MacVey
was released from Gallinger Hos
pital where he was committed on
Dec. 27, 1953, by the D. C. Com
missioner of Mental Health for
what was later called a "psycho
tic episode."
He had Republican friends in
high places, however, among
them his father, a Republican
leader in St. Lawrence County,
New York, who intervened with
the state and county GOP com
mittees. Accordingly, MacVey's
appointment was recommended
by the Republican National Com
mittee in Washington and he was
hired by Rosel Hyde, a Republi
can, and chairman of the Fed
eral Communications Commis
sion. Hyde, together with two strong
McCarthy friends, Robert E. Lee
and John Doerfer of Wisconsin,
now dominate the FCC.
Despite his record, MacVey was
placed in one of the most stra
tegic spots in the entire FCC, in
the review section, where he pas
sed upon TV and radio licenses.
Egiht month's after MacVey
was hired, he was "terminated,"
October 20, and was lumped am
ong the so-called Democratic "se
curity risks" which Republican
campaigners claim they have pur
ged from government. Note
Tragedy is that as a result of
playing politics with so-called se
curity risks, the names of a lot
of other unfortunates who have
had trouble wtih John Barleycorn
are scheduled to come out in
congressional investigations.
Dear Steve
I Sent The GOP
Home Today
David Mundy
Chapel Hill, N. C.
December 10, 1954
Dear Steve,
My long silence is beginning
to surprise evn me, My last
letter occurred some four months
ago, right?
Wir geht's? (Yes, I'm taking
German.) I trust that Oberlin is
still O.K. (I am still envious of
all twenty-five feet of Mt. Ober
lin. I haven't found a hill around
here yet.)
, Still a psycho major? I've been
fortunate in receiving "non-boring,"
if not interesting, profes
sors this semester .Considering
your fears of last summer, I hope
you the same. Dr. Daniel, my
Psych 24 professor, is proving as
popular this semester as last
summer. My "Texas oil million
aire roommate," who is interest
ed in little else but those little
cars (MG's, et al) and women,
even finds his lectures stimulat
ing. (He hasn't been converted
into a student yet, though.) And
even with his rapid-fire delivery,
Dr. Daniel's humor is making
him something of a George Go
bel competitor. Soon I expect to
hear that advertisers are insert
ing spot announcements in his
lectures. In a few years the psy
chology department might afford
a new building, or even retire
some professors.
My lengthy, perhaps pleasant
silence, could endure a little ex
planation. I, David Mundy, boy
writer, have been writing a col
umn for the Daily Tar Heel. And
it is plumb excitin'.
As you may suspect, my journ
alistic splurges are likely to be
more in the line of exhibition
ism and bravado than anything
else. I missed that stage of de
velopment back in grammar
school anyway.
For years I've been thinking
of myself as a quiet, unagressive
(i.e., cowardly) being. The strain
of a twice-weekly column has
either cleared me of a delusion,
loosened the bonds of an inferi
ority complex, or provided a
channel of expression for all
sorts of depressed desires. Con
sidering your interest in psy
chology and pending the Christ
mas vacation, I'll leave further
psychoanalization up to you.
Remember my rather perverse
insistence that I would' deliver
no high school graduation vale
dictory if I couldn't use my own
eight-word composition? The
story has changed somewhat in
its journey down to "the Hill."
Intentionally distorted or not. I
think it crept onto campus with
some of the state's "future lead
ers." They are BMOC's now, and
have the firmest intentions and
well-laid plans for becoming
BMIS's, if not BMIN's, or even
BMIW's. (Abbreviations for big
men of the state, nation, and the
world.)
The new version says that T
"got up at the graduation exer
cises and told everyone, includ
ing the principal and assorted
teacher(s) to go to hell." The
new version is so colorful that,
frankly, I don't mind it a bit. It
attributes more "nerve" than I
have possessed since my first day
in the first grade when I got
into my first and last fisticuffs
engagement.
My political philosophy, if it
could be called that, is undergo
ing something of a shift. By
Christmas you are quite likely to
find one less Republican. The
liberal Republicans (the wheels,
i.e.) seem set on assassinating the
more conservative members.
Those of the Secretary Mitchell
stripe are anathema (against anti-closed-shop
laws! Ye Gods!)
The president and the Secretary
of State seem more pleased with
good public relations than a real
istic foreign policy. And 1 can't
go along with brother Joseph.
I'm even further from the South
ern version of the Democrats
than ever, especially over segre
gation, so I can't join them.
I'm thinking of going my own
way and founding a party of my
own, the "Mundane Socialists."
(re et contra "Marxian Social
ists.") Our platform will favor
such socialist programs as public
ownership of schools and high
wav, and perhaps even of some
utilities. Norman Thomas is on
ly against the "spirit of the back
ers" of the Bricker Amendment,
so I imagine that we will have to
make a plank out it too.
t See ya
David M.
The Eye Of The Horse
Roger Will Coe
(Th Horse sees imperfectly, magnifying ?
L minimizing others .... Wpporot,,.
things
500 B. C.)
THE HORSE was ginking about in
the environ-
Murphy, when I. saw
him. Noah Webster defines a
" " . .u l.rro Inarl nf honks :w
looked absurd wun such a
W Ws just no satisfying some people," Th,
Horse growled, quite a feat for a horse, indeed, -r
used to be s. o. p. for horses to carry loads, no hkI
ter what variety. Now I am taken to task for a r,
of books." ' . . , .
Not taken to task, Horsie, merely being warm-,!.
Didn't " Poor Richard say in his Almanack, Lit'!,,
strokes fell great oaks. . . ? He did! Similarly, Lot.,
courses fell old Horses. . . if the ol' hosses tried to
tote the txts of those about all at once.
"I'm osmosing the subjects," The Horse decian -1.
"Absorbing, you know, the contents, via contact with
mv horsehide. Very edoocashional."
' Yes; but horsehide was a tough resistor. Pn.f
of this perhaps could be found in The Horse's grades
What was The Horse studying?
"Aristotle, Sophocles, Shakespeare, G. em
O'Pshaw, and sometimes Catullus, the latter a rno. t
intriguing Roman poet of Julius Caesar's day, ar, i
what that lad has to say about Caesar, tsk, tsk'"
The Horse elaborated. "Such erudite name-calling
doubtless inspired Harold Ickes, the late Old Cur
mudgeon." I thought The Horse's selections of classes wit.'
appropriate: the principles he was studying were ail
dead ... as, close to, was The Horse.
"A ho-ho for your pun-funning, sterile churl,"
The Horse Shakespeared me; or was it Winchellin?
"The principles these celebrated principles stood lor
are not dead. Howsoever, som of them are more than
mildly decomposed. But let it never be said that a
bit of obfuscation discouraged a Horse bent on learn
ing." Okay, okay; but what was The Horse learning,
and to what purpose? At his age, what good con 1.1
it do?
"OF Sophocles was still pounding his typewrit f-r
at age ninety," The Horse shrugged, "and he 'was a
late starter, too. So was Aristotle. Grandma Moses
grabbed the carecloth in which her juniors were pre
pared to wrap her, turned it into canvas, and start
ed to paint when she was past seventy. Shaw didn t
miss by much elevating his hirsute chin to the cen
tury mark, and he was still joyfully twacking the
rumps of pretense and hypocrisy as he breathed hi-;
last."
Ugh, did this mean The Horse was threatening
to continue Eyeing things hereabouts until he was
one hundred years stale? And they killed Caesar!
"Now, there's an example which Ike would have
done well to study," The Horse interposed, clubbing
me with a gay hoof to drive home his point. "Ike
without doubt perused the tactics and stretegy of
Caesar's Gallic Wars, when the former was matri
culating at The Trade School on the Hudson y-clcpt
West Point. He should have re-read the Senate pass
ages, howsoever. You know, that 'Et tu, McCarthy!'
bit? Other interesting parallels exists. Ike, who
was silent while Marshall a modern-day Pompoy
was being done in by Brute McCarthy in those
rallies in Wisconsin, knows how the stab-in-the-back
feels, now. Heck, Ike's plenty older'n me, and he is
still learning, I hope, I hope."
I thought McCarthy was somewhat Classical him
self. Shakespearian, titularly speaking, no?
The Horse shuddered, but braced for the blow
manfully. I mean, equinely. "Let's have it, Roger,''
he quavered. "I'm sure it is a rancid joke which in
coming, but like Ike, I'm game to the corps."
I just thought McCarthy might get by in a char
ade as The Merchant of Venom, that was all. Ap
parently, it was enough, as well as all. For once The
Horse was speechless.
Smith, Winrod & Co.
Bit The Dust With Joe
By Congressional Quarterly
CENSURE of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.)
whatever its long-term consequences, is unlikely to
hake the support given to him by certain groups
long active on the periphery of American politics.
Led by such familiar and controversial figures
as Gerald L. K. Smith, Gerald Winrod, Merwin K.
Hart and Joseph Kamp, these groups have played
a vocal if not a leading role.in rallying opinion to
the side of the Wisconsin senator. Recently, they
have not enjoyed as much publicity as the recently
organized Ten Million Americans mobilizing for
Justice, which staked a last-minute drive for peti
tions to stave off censure of Sen. McCarthy. But they
have been no less outspokenly pro-McCarthy.
During the censure debate, for example, Smith,
who heads the Christian Nationalist Crusade, circu
lated the follow-ing message to senators:
"A WORD TO THE WISE: We are keeping care
ful tab on all senators ... In case of war or intensi
fication of the cold war, any senator who made it
difficult for McCarthy will be automatically retired
as an appeaser of Communism."
Smith amplified his views on Nov. 23, in a letter
to his followers 'requesting funds. In it, he called
the McCarthy fight a struggle against "this Fabian,
bureaucratic alien-minded Jew-financed dictator
ship." Smith first came to national prominence in the
early thirties as a supporter of William Dudley Pel
lev, organizer of the Silver Shirts, who was jailed
for sedition in 1942. Smith later worked with Sen.
Huey Long CD-La.) and when the Louisiana "Kinc
fish" was assassinated, Smith delivered the funeral
oration. Smith also was associated with Father Char
les E. Coughlin, pre-war leader of the Christian
Front.
Gerald Winrod, a native of Kansas, heads the De
fenders of the Christian Faith. During the censure
debate. Winrod distributed a report enttled "Sena
tor McCarthy's Persecution." The report denounced
as "crucifixion" the work of the Watkins Committee,
which drew up the censure recommendations. Win
rod warned that "Christians" will work to defeat
the six committee members when they come up for
re-election. None was up this year.
absurd, eccentric person, and The Ho