FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1955
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
PAGE TWO
Dr. Harry W. Chase
Former Frexlenr Harry Woodbmn Chase
whose death came Wednesday night in Sara
sola, Florida, ushered in a new era for the
University. j
After serving as Dean of the College and
chairman of the faculty, Dr. Chase Uecame
president in June, 1919. His administration,
stretching through the year 1930, saw this
school grow from a college into a major uni
versity. Kn roll men t went through a post
World War I upsurge; buildings, including
the Library, Murphy, Manning and Saund
ers went up: new departments, music and
commerce rniong them, came into being; and
the Universitv gained membership in the
American Assoc iation of Colleges and Univer
sities. Dr. Chase established a new realm for
higher education in North Carolina.
The Daily Tar Heel and the University
community are grateful for his service and
saddened at his passing.
Justice Goes On
"It seems to me that liberties for those we
most dislike are the most crucial ones to de
fend," said Prof. Robert Sonne Cohen of
Connecticut Wesley an as the Scales defense
opened Wednesday in Greensboro.
The Daily Tar Heel concurs with that idea.
We commend Professor Cohen: and we com
mend in particular Professors Fletcher Green
of history, Raymond Adams of English and
The Reverend Charles Jones for demonstrat
ing that thev, too, subscribe to that rudiment
of Anglo-Saxon justice. Professors Green and
Adams and Mr. Jones, in their brief, unemo
tional, and concise testimony in behalf of
Junius Scales' sincerity, restored some dignity
to the trial now wearing through its second
week.
It is next to imKssible for a Communist
to be tried justly today in the United States.
The veb of hysteria has been spun too thick.
The fear of Russian power to the East, the
tattered but still flapping ensign of McCarthy,
and public ignorance as to the nature and real
threat of Communism throw cases like the
Scales affair out of kilter. In the Greensboro
trial, a long iroup of excited witnesses, paid
performers, spies, and incompetent press re
porting have made the outcome., as the in
formed expected, all but inevitable.
To be sure, mean, ill-founded criticism will
fly at the professors and the minister. But it
will be the offspring of ignorance and will
come from those who do not see the basic
conservatism of what they did.' Civil. liberties,
most of them, cost hundreds of years of revo
lution, abuse, slaughter and regicide. When
those who believe in them arc pilloried, it
speaks poorly for our appreciation.
Justice goes on, fortunately; and we can
thank those like the men from Chapel Hill
that it does.
A Word For Wheels
The wheels of student government for
tuneabout 100 of them will be turning on
campus this weekend, as student leaders from
the Carolina . and Virginia gather for the
spring National Student Association Regional
Assembly.
Student body presidents and other wheels
from the three states' will attempt everything
from "defending the role of the student in
the college community" to studying the mystical-sounding
"dynamics of the group and
parliamentary proceedure," with some social
izing sandwiched in between, no donbt.
The Daily Tar Heel welcomes the wheels
to Carolina. The work being pei formed na
tionally and internationally by the National
Student Association should inspire them to
serious thought and a stimulating exchange of
ideas. We hope they can turn their weekend
workshop into a vibrant marketplace of ideas
on student government.
Carolina Front
Of Spring And
Youth & Love's
Sweet Whatnot
'See Anyone ,fcoming Yet?
J. A. C. Dunn
"IT IS! It is! It's Really Truly
Spring!," as the Intimate Book
shop so elatedly remarks in its
right hand front show window.
Being of a tractable nature,
we are inclin
ed to agree
with them. It
is spring. Fine.
When w e
think of
spring, how
ever, we think
not only of
books (as the
Intimate does).
or of "flowers that bloom in
the etc. (as Gilbert and Sullivan
do), but also of young men's
fancies, which, we are told, have
an alarming tendency to turn
like worms as soon as cords and
pedal-pushers pop up from un
der every newly-thawed stone.
Quite recently we ran across
two young men, drunk on spring,
whose -fancies had turned to g
poetry. We here present their
deathless (and anonymous) verse
in all its poetic radiance.
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THE FIRST POEM is more
malicious than anything else,
and is untitled except for a no
tation: "With apologies to New
Faces of 1952." .
Love is a simple thing;
Love is a scorpion's sting,
Vicious as a moray ell,
Painful as a torture wheel,
Sharp as an assin's tool,
Quick as a pirana school;
Love is a simple thing.
Love is a mad dog's bite,
Deadly as Medusa's sight,
Toxic as wood alchohol,
Chilling as a banshee's call,
Damning as a voodoo curse,
Morbid as a loaded hearse;
Love is a simple thing.
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TOM SHORES
THE SECOND POEM is a bit
more sincere, and is slightly
reminiscent of the poetry of
Porcupine, Walt Kelly's misan
thropic Okeefenokee character.
We asked why the author used
"we" instead of "I", and he re
plied that he was writing in hon
or of Editors who had to sit in
hot offices on hot spring days.
Evidently he was once an Editor
himself and knows first hand.
WE
The heartsung song somewhere
sung for us
Is sung in the heart of you,
we hope.
The windblown soul that is
whisked along
Like a leaf, is blown toward
us, we hope.
The starlit face questing, lighthouse-like,
for a mirror
Reflects in our face, we hope.
The sun-bright smile meant to
warm and soothe
Is aimed at the person of us,
we hope. 1
The song of the soul is the
smile of the face;
The face is the soul of the
smile.
And the smile in the song is
the face of the soul,
The soul is the face of the
song.
The windblown heart is lit by
the stars,
The sun-bright wind is warm.
And the leaf, the mirror the
lighthouse, all -Are
aimed at a whisk around
us, we hope.
WHERE THEY GO
Three thousand five hundred
teachers in Pennsylvania will
be leaving this year for a
variety of reasons. These in
clude: 6 percent marriage' or
family, 11 percent going to oth
er states, 18 percent entering
other types of employment, 20
percent miscellaneous o t her
reason's, and 45 percent retire
ment for old age or disability.
Associate Editor
News Editor
J. A. C. DUNN
Jackie Goodman
Advertising Manager
Circulation Manager
Subscription Manager
Assistant Business Manager
Photographer
Dick Sirkin
Jim Kiley
Jack Godley
Bill Bob Peel
Boyden Henley
Night editor for this issue
.Eddie Crutchfield
ALL INCLUDED
Deep sea and Gulf Stream,
sound and inland fishing are all
included in the North Carolina
central coastal area, from vast
Pamlico Sound to Bogue village
on the sound of the same name.
J. B. Severance
, Harvard, '58
(The follmcing is the sub
stance of a letter written by a
Harvard freshman to a friend of
his gimng an impression of Har
vard after eight months of resi
dence there. Maybe our readers
can find parallels. Editors)
I have it straight from a fine
arts lecture that in pre-Revolu-tionary
days Cambridge was in
tended to be governmental city
for the Commonwealth of .Massa
chusetts,' and when Boston got
the job instead, the authorities
founded Harvard in Cambridge
as a sort of compensation. Be
that as it may, the institution
grew and all the New England
social elite attended it.
At one time the standing of a
student in his class was deter
mined by the social prominence
of his family rather than by the
student's brilliance. However, the
situation has changed a good
deal since then and though the
Groton-Harvard type still exists
(there are some in the freshman
class today), the University now
strives for what it calls "even
geographical distribution." The
Great Plains area niust still be
pretty sparsely populated because
some of the types from west of
the Mississippi strongly resem
ble the American Bison, at least
mentally, and in many cases phy- -sically.
I don't say that this holds
for all of them since I happen to
room with a broad-minded Tex
an. THE YARD:
Harvard Yard is the center cf
the University and the original
area of the place. Among its ma
ny features are the freshman
dorms, Offices of the President
and Fellows, University Hall (the
administration building in which
lurk many smiling deans i.jid
polite secretaries), a statue of
John Harvard (which is very in
appropriate since the date on it
is three years off, Old John was
not the real founder, and it's
not a statue of the real John
Harvard anyway), three libraries,
an old water pump about which
old grads are supposed to be
very nostalgic, and Sever Hall,
now a classroom building, which
is considered to be one of the
most important architectural
achievements of the nineteenth
century but which makes me
wonder what else the nineteenth
century produced..
THE SQUARE:
There are a number of merch
ants on the Square who claim to,
have been serving Harvard men
for generations. All I can say is
that the experience they have
gained has been put to good uses
most of their prices are al
most half again as much as they
are elsewhere. However, I have
to admit that there are ax good
many worthwhile institutions in
and around the Square.
The University Theatre, a grim
looking movie house, has a' good
show about once a month on the
average. The Harvard Coopera
tive Society claims that it gives
the member a 10 markup. It
is handy for stationery and ugly
little necessities, but no one in
his right mind ever buys , cloth
ing or sporting equipment there.
The store on the corner .next to
the Coop (I can't recall its name)
sells cigars, fresh fruit (at ex
horbitant prices), newspapers
and almost and brand of ciga
rettes you can name (i. e. Ben
son & Hedges, Player's, or even
Murads). It is a rather nice little
hole. '
The Brattle Theatre is a very
worthy institution which ' shows
good revivals and foreign films
for twenty cents more than any
where else. The Wursthauts, a
German delicatessen and bar, has
mediocre food at mediocre prices
and fairly drips with atmosphere.
Next to the Wursthaus is a very
tiny and modern snack joint
known as the Tastee Sandwich
shop, which, though it is new this
year, is fast becoming an insti
tution. It has the best hambur
gers on the Square and the chea
pest ones.
Next to this joint, which is
known as Charley's (Charley runs
it) or "The Armpit," is the sha
diest business establishmenf I
have ever seen: The Varsity Li
quor Store. The drinking age in
Massachusetts is twenty-one, but
even the most juvenile-looking
freshman can get into the place
and make a purchase with no
questions asked. There is a strong
possibility that it has police pro
tection since there is a traffic
cop's stand in front of the store
and there are always two or three
cops warming themselves up in
the store on a cold day. I had it
from one freshman that as he was
leaving the store with an arm
load of various bottles a cop in
full dress and brass buttons held
the door open for him.
The local dive is Cronin's. It is
full, of atmosphere, but even
through the dim smokyess of the
rdom Jim Cronin can guess your
age with surprising accuracy. The
best tailor in the vicinity is Dun
can MacAndrew. Here one can
have a sports jacket made of the
best imported tweeds for forty
dollars. Duncan MacAndrews
sports a Bongo Board with which
customers supposedly amuse
themselves while waiting for a
clerk, but it seems to be monop
olized by the woman who" runs
the tailoring room.
RADCLIFFE: -
What slim pickin's there are
are really not so bad as rumor
would have it. . ,
THE GREY FLANNEL SUIT:
The Grey Flannel suit is, as
everyone knows, the Ivy League
uniform. It is predominant at
Harvard and may be bought any
where on the Square. There is al
so an unsavory element around
the Yard which leans toward the
zoot suit and the flashy silk tie.
Individuals in this class purchase
their unlobely purple shirts at
Leopold Morse next to the UT.
The really discriminating Harvard
man buys tailor made tweed suits
at Duncan MacAndrew's. In gen
eral, though it can be said that
the Grey Flannel suit is the dress
of the average Harvard man.
PUBLICATIONS:
The Harvard Crimson has taken
advantage of the fact that the
Boston papers are revoltingly un
readable, and is consequently one
of the better college newspapers
in the country. "hjnfortunately it
is fully aware of thJs fact and
rather conceited. Since it has
such an iron grip on affairs it
can get away with the most out
rageous slander and misquoting
imaginable and frequently does.
The Harvard Advocate is run by
a very serious-minded group of
writers, and is a quite readable
magazine. Recently they had a
monopoly on stories involving
people with neuroses and odd
frustrations, but it is now on the
up and up and even has some
Tather able poets.
The Cambridge Review, a splin
ter from the Advocate, is a bit
smart-alec, but passable.
The Harvard Lampoon is at
present riding on a very good
reputation. Unfortunately for the
past three years it has been dom
inated by a very able writer
who now works for the New
Yorker. The result of his ability
was that it stifled everybody
else's and no wthe Lampoon is a
cheap pamphlet of forced humor.
Many Harvard men prefer to get
their humour reading the Yale
Record, which, in view of the
facts, is extremely broad-minded
of them.
Harry, Ike,. Arid
Ulysses Grant
Ralph McGill
Atlanta Constitution
WASHINGTON As V!time goes,
on more and more, persons are
realizing that whatever may have
been his failures, Harry S. Tru
man was a strong President
M like a tough fighter. So, com
ing down oh the elevator in the
Mayflower Hotel with Sen. Wal
ter George, and Miss Lucy, his
wife, on thet way to the Sam
Rayburn dinner I got off at the
fifth floor. The reason I go off
was that when the elevator stop
ped at that floor I saw Truman
and his wife there , with some
friends. I went up to him and
put my arms around him and sai3
, that it made me feel wonderful
to see him looking so good.
. Now, We come down to the
real story for which the fore
going is a sort of preamble.
Two veteran senators, who
have been around for a long, long
time, talked freely, though not
for attribution, about President
Eisenhower. They like him. What
they have to say is "riot said in
hostility or rancor. They think,
as do all of us, that he is a good,,
decent, honorable man.
THEY LIKE IKE
But this, in essence, is their
summary of him as a President.
"Ike,' they said, "is a lot like
Gen. Grant when he was Presi
dent. Grant had won a war. The
people felt he was a strong man,
able to make decisions. Actually,
as we know, he was not. He was
a good man but not at all aware
of how to govern. His Cabinet
was not able and some members
were corrupt. The Republican
Congress was a pliant tool of
special privilege, as is a majority
of the present Republican House
and Senate. The worst 'of the
Republican party hid behind the
shield of Grant's personal integ
rity. -
The people came to know this,
but they almost nominated Grant
for a third term. In a sense,
President Eisenhower is like that.
War threatens. The people look
to a general.
They say what has become well
known; namely, that Ike, the
good, decent man, is not skilled
enough in politics to know what
is going on.
"He doesn't seem to realize how
transparent he is. He keeps try
ing to run away from the presi
dency," said one of the veteran
senators. "But you can't run away
from it. Wherever the President
goes, there is the presidency.
When Ike plays golf with Dr. Cary
Middlecoff the presidency is rightT"
there with them.
There is a story going around
Washington.
There was a conference with
congressional leaders about the
Asian situation. It was not reas
suring. The chiefs of staff, who
are the professionals, were di
vided. "We all stood there," said the
congressman who told me about
it, "and we felt sad and blue.
There had been no leadership,
only indecision. As we stood,
waiting for the President to go, '
he looked at his watch and said,
'Gee, I have time to get in nine
holes of golf.' When we got out
side . another congressman said,
'Golfing while Rome burns.' "
328 DRINKING DRIVERS
Under the heading, "driver's
condition" the Motor Vehicles
Department summary of last
year's fatal traffic! "accidents
lists 328 drivers who had been
drinking. Other driver defects
eyesight, hearing, fatigue, ill
ness, and sleepiness affected
only 83 drivers involved in fatal,
accidents. In all there were 880
death dealing traffic mishaps
which produced 991 fatalities
during the year.
REAL BARGAIN
Used car salesman: "You don't
often get a chance to buy a car
like this. I tell you it's a real op
portunity." Prospect; "Must be. I hear it
knocking." Ottaxoa Journal. '
, SMALL TOWN
A small town is the place where
a fellow with a black eye doesn't
have to explain to people, they
know. Coast Guard Magazine.
FOIL FOR REDS
That, of T course, is not quite
fair, but it illustrates a lot of
feeling here.
Sen. George, for example,
thinks the administration has de
ceived the American people by
making Quemoy and Matsu the
major issue. "The Communists,"
he says, "are not ready or able
to take Formosa, but they are
about to take Indochina by de
fault. Things are very crucial
there. It looks as if Viet; Nam is
to be lost. And if it is, then Bur
ma, Malaya, Laos,tCambodia and
all southeastern Asia are endan
gered." Sen.George also feels very
strongly that the. African-Asian
meeting which began Monday in
Bandung, Indonesia, should have
had our blessing.
Harry Truman criticized the
Republican press for "covering
up "the administration's errors
and failures. The one thing
which privately dominates the
press here is the great disappoint
ment in Sec. Dulles. The Demo
cratic senators and congressmen
who know say that he is a timid,
rabbit sort of a man who simply
cannot stand against pressure.
They think Ike gets a bad assist
in a critical job.
Security Climax
Stewart Alsop
A showdown fight involving the SovenmenVs
whole loyalty-security system now . shaping up.
Th fiht will center on a minor official in tne in
.Monetary Fund, called William Henry
Ta Tavlor was one of those named by Elizabeth
Bentley, the famous former Communist espionage
eourier, as a member of the espionage group in the
S2sm Department during the war. The Bentley
Sarrw aired in substance before a Senate com
mittee by Attorney General Herbert BrownelT in .
15, when he testified on the case of the late, ji.arry
nvter White. ,
Taylor, who has never taken the Fifth Amend
ment, has repeatedly and flatly denied under oath
that he was ever a Soviet agent or a Communist.
He has now demanded, in letters to the members
of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, that
his can be investigated publicly; that he be allowed
to confront his chief accuser, Miss Bentley; and that
his guilt or innocence be finally determined.
At the same time, he has asked the Loyalty Board
which has been hearing his case to call Brownell
and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover to answer questions
about what he alleges to be demonstrable falsehoods
in Miss Bentley's testimony. In short Tayloft .and
his lawyer, former Congressman Byron Scott, are
now determined to force a public showdown.
HEAVY CLOUD OF DOUBT
One result of the showdown could be to1 prove
that Taylor is guilty. Another result could be to
clear his name. But if Taylor's name is cleared, a
heavy, cloud of doubt will be thrown over all Eliza
beth Bentley's testimony, and indeed over the Jus
tice Department's methods and tffe whole security
system. It is easy to see why the Taylor case could
start a major row. " " ''
Taylor's position is extraordinary. He has, after
all, been named by the Attorney General of the
United States as one who could be used by a -"parallel
of Soviet intelligence." Yet he still holds a pub
lic position, and part of his salary, at least, is paid
by the United States Treasury. -
Taylor is, in fact, the last of those named by$Miss
Bentley who still holds a public position. Very hea
vy pressure has been broug'it to bear on the Mone
tary Fund to get rid of him quietly. Among other
high officials, both former Secretary of the Trea
sury John Snyder and his successor, Geoige Hum
phrey, have written to the Fund urging that Taylor
be filed. W
CASE UP IN 1953
The Fund managers, however, have quite pro
perly taken the position that the charges against
Taylor should first be heard. His case was therefore
assigned early in 1953 to the International Organi- ."
zation' Employees Loyalty Board.
This board has been holding intermittent head
ings for a year and a half. During all this time,
despite the statement of the Attorney General to
the Senate committee, the board has been unable to
establish that Taylor is guilty as charged, or even
that the "reasonable doubt" required for firing as
a security risk exists. Accordingly, Taylor still holds
his job.
Taylor's defense before the board has been sim-
ply to challenge the veracity of his accuser, Miss
Bentley, not only in his own case, but in the case
of Harry Dexter White and others. In a public show
down, he will make the same defense.
Taylor and his lawyer have prepared a dossier
of more than 100 pages, which purports to demon
strate that Miss Bentley's testimony is a morass of
contradictions. Some of the contradictions citd"3
in this remarkable document are trivial, the sort
of small mistakes any human being makes. But
some do not seem trivial. For example, according to
the dossier, Miss Bentley at one point testified that
Taylor passed her documents, and at another point
she testified that she had never met Taylor.
THE JUSTICE DEPT. AT FAULT
Miss Bentley's testimony may of course prove
substantially entirely accurate, and Taylor guilty
as charged. There is no doubt that Communist spy
nets did indeed operate in the government during
the war. Because ex-Communist informers like Miss
Bentley have been useful in establishing this fact,
there are fierce pressures to suppress all challenges
to their veracity.
Justice Department officials, including Brownell,
have come precious close to taking the ridiculous
and profoundly un-American position that anyone
who would cast doubt on the word of an ex-Communist
must be part of a Communist plot. The best
commentary on this nonsense was supplied by
Brownell's own action last week, in firing th Jus
tice Department's whole collection of professional
full-time informers. But just because Miss Bentley's
testimony has been so . important, and because
Brownell himself is committed on Taylor's guilf, The
pressures will be particularly fierce in this case.
Yet surely Taylor should have a chance to prove,
one(way or another, once and for all, whether he
took part in espionage, and thus betrayed his coun
try. It is monstrous and intolerable that a man
branded as Taylor has been branded should be de
nied a chance to clear his name.
Quote, Unquote
Memorable Words
From Doctor Einstein
Albert Einstein on education:
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the
modern methods of instruction have not entirely
strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this
delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands
mainly m need of freedom. Without this it goes to
wreck (sic) and ruin.
On war:
War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thin
I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part
m such an abominable business.
On Relativity: '
Zh.Z I"13" SUS ,WUh 3 Pretty girl for an ur, it
seems 1 ke a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove
reLtivTr itS IOnSGr th3n 3ny unVh
On his profession, if he had to do it over a-ain-would
not try to become a scientist or schoS
Seer nTedhoaDthtr ' p' "
stances. available under present circura-