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AGS TV0 THE DAILY TAR HEEL TUESDAY, CCTC: Come 3crcc Or Resign Perhaps there is a hot telephone line be tween the Pentagon and South Building, but " so it is a hidden one. So far as we can de tect, the University has not heard a public word from President Gordon CJjay since he marched off to join the Defense Department. We. are in the last doze of an alarming apathy if the students, the faculty, and the local administrators within the University in tend to submit to the present limbo. We have no leadership, save for the mori- Carolina Front Kids Kids Kids: Ballistics & Decatur's Ride f.A.C. Dunn administration: and it is im possible for a leader who is unsure of his ten ure to function effectively. Yet we lie here, playing our fiddles, and in Washington Pres ident Gray shows "no signs of interest in what is go-ing on. All those involved in this crisis we don't think we are being rash in consid ering headlessncss a crisis do; harm to the in stitution, and those who support it, by thumb-twiddling,- . ' The faculty and students should petition for a president. The Trustees should ask Mr. Gray to state his exact position. He should indicate his intention . to .return within a reasonably short time or resfgn without condition. .... Assails EDITORS: For the past month Head Cheerleader Collie Collison, stu dent body President Don Fowler, and numerous others have been working and planning for the biggest football caravan Carolina has seen in years. However, their plans recently suffered a serious setback when the UNC Band, fol lowing like, blind sheep the per suasive words of.. Director Her bert Fred and Drum Major Guyte Cotton, voted not, to go to the Georgia game. In doing this the band has not only dealt a. punishing blow to the caravan, but it has also seri ously threatened to end some thing that student government leaders have fought long and hard or class-free Saturday. 's Retort if 1 1 - Of Cuffinci If 0 Nixon's Power Play If all men in public life were as ruthless ly self-seeking as Vice President Richard' Nix on, the Constitution and the Republic would collapse tomorrow. Hardly had President Eisenhower suffer ed his heart attack, when the political spot lights swung to Nixon. The initial focus, piercing the darkness of the first hours, found Nixon at the home of U. S. deputy attorney general, William Rogers, who was then acting attorney general. Vlirownell was in Europe. Nixon reported to the press, that he left home to get away from phone calls. But Drew Pearson, the Washington columnist, tells how Nixon went to get a ruling on the ambiguous phrasing of the Constitutional provision for ' disability" of the President. He asked Rog ers during his illness. Fortunately, BrowneTl president, could t ike over Eisenhower's pow ers during his illness. Fortunately. Brownell was reached in Spain and he put his foot clown. There is no calculating how much politi cal headway Nixon might have made if Rog ers had given him the. ruling he wanted. Nix on's wild power-grab seems to us only typical of the callous selfishness with which members' of both parties-but chiefly those of the Pres- ' ident's own-have greeted Eisenhower's ill ness. What manner of men are they? Something Of Value On Fraternity Row Fraternities constitute an important sector of campus life and student govern ment. Some my that they are inherently unstated for self-government because the tendency aliaays is for loyalty to the chapter to take precedence over loyalty to anything eke. Perhaps this is a limitation on effec tive fraternity.xuide self. government. -Dean Fred H. Weaver in a 1954 All-Campus Con. fere nee speech? Fraternities the ancient whipping-post for campus editors and ancient deans, have done something on the Carolina campus that is worth both noting and praising. They have opened their doors (and meal tables) to an international student, a visitor from another land. Dean Weaver, an open-minded educator on the subject of fraternities, has repeatedly pointed to the potentialities of the Greek-let-' terclubs for doing something for the campus imce fraternities are by the nature of their purpose scllish organizations, that is designed to serve their members rather than the cam pus at large, it is frequently difficult for them to see beyond Fraternity Row. When they do, however, it's heartenino And we praise them for' it. 0 ONE DAY last week was ab solutely jammed with children. Practically everywhere we went there were children' doing some thing that caught our attention. The following threp incidents seem well worth passing on: WE HAD occasion to drop into Sutton's Drug Store in the early afternoon. Two boys, each about 15-years-old, were standing by the magazine rack poring over a gun magazine. One was rather chubby and his clothes were get ting a bit small for him. The other was blond and short. Both had that look in their eye com mon to adolescents which be trays both fascination with and puzzlement at the strange goings on in the world around them. They hunched over the maga zine and flipped the pages, in trigued by the show of potential violence. "Frankly, I've always prefer red pistols," said the chubby one confidently. "Year, they're much easier to conceal," said the blond. "Of course, they're 0nly about half as accurate," added Chubby. We stood innocently scanning the magazine rack and waiting for more gems of ballistic wis dom from this oracular pair. After a while our patience was rewarded. Chubby pointed to a scale picture of a revolver in the middle of one page. "There," he said knowingly, "that's what ' you oughta have, a bolt action automatic with a clip." "Naw," said the blond, "I don't want one of them cheap things. It's only got ten shots." . We relapsed into the abyss of adulthood, bought a copy of Play boy, and departed wondering what the blond boy wanted for a penny, change? "A" -fa LATER THAT afternoon we went down to Fowler's to do 'a little' domestic shopping. As we prowled around looking for the Minute Rice, a little boy of about four suddenly swished past us at a dead run. He was wearing a blue sailor suit with a pap to match and he was laughing ma niacally. Right behind him and panting somewhat was a girl of about 18, obviously doing her breathless best to maintain con- MATTER OF FACT trol over the sailor suit with the help of another girl atout 12 or 13-years-old. "Decatur!" she called as loudly as possible without shrieking in the middle 0f Fowler's. "Decatur! You come back here!" iccicu agdinsi some cans m h e npm-Pr. w;toi u- , . be possible that someone was ac- heart attack. aespue ins tually named Decatur? Decatur Chairman Leonard Hall of the Republican Na giggled devilishly and sped on, tional Committee has declared that he still nones oblivious of the fact that his pur- the President will head the party ticket in 1956 suer was gaining. She caught him HaIl's subordinates swear that Hall really means at the frozen orange juice, took what he says. They also give all sorts of elaborate him firmly by the arm, and led reasons why Hall's hopes may turn out to be well him away to help with the shop- founded, if the President makes the good recovery ping. We left the Decatur men- the whole country prays for. age, 'collected a few more items Chairman Hall is not alone, either. Amon other and paused briefly at the meat RePublican leaders and in the party rank and file counter. everyone is automatically repeating Dr Paul D .. ... !ie At tnis point Decatur rounded 10 ru" again, if his recovery prorss ihp u , es satisfactorily. Dr. Whito'c u. , f . - 01 me cuoKie snen, A member of the administration has personally told me that .if, the caravan is not a success this year, there is likely to be none next year. The administration can see, no point in granting a class-free Saturday just so the students can have a longer week-end at home. To justify their stand the band has advanced two main conten tions : 1. It will caise Director Fred a sizeable amount of extra work to plan and organize another show. No one in the band thought of the hours already put in by Don Fowler, Collie Collison, and numerous others in planning and organizing the trip. Personally, I believe that it is part of Fred's job as assistant director to plan and produce shows. If he's not up to it, then he'd be better off if he resigned. 2. With only two rehearsals the band could only produce a medi ocre show. I have been a member of the band for the past two years, and while it has greatly improved during that time, it has produced few really outstanding performances. I feel that I know its capabilities almost as well as Director Ford, and I believe1 that if they really .want to,-the band , can produce a show at the Geor gia game that will compare fav orably with those, of the remain der of the year. Personnel money was a minor factor in the consideration of the trip, for the University .would furnish the money for the band's transportation, room, and a good 'Poor Elmo, Didn't Give Bot 99 Parking Tickets Last Week' it - ! ' I r777rrrrr-rr-i ! " m ii. 5 . I hi1 I II it J lllt.lt a hi V wp-i iiCvv mm orQVQrn portion of their board. Perhaps I'm writing from a prejudiced viewpoint since I'm - one of those who have worked, on the planning and organizing of the caravan. However, I can not help but feel ashamed to be a member of an organization which last year went pleading to the student Legislature for more money, and then this year turns around and refuses to help the student body support one of the finest football teams Carolina has seen in years. Therefore I intend to attend future games only as a spectator and not as a performer. As far as the caravan goes, it can still be a huge success, de spite the band. If the student body goes out and really supports the team it will not only be proud of the results, but it will also have the best team it has had in j-ears. Remember, "Getting there is half the fun." . Ronald Oldenburg m77m s fit! Roger Will - Ceo THE HORSE was so pale, when I .-,... , ing in his Library stall, I thought for a ' ... i i "Ji. was a new norse . . . mayoe even the hi White Horse Scotch Bottles? Ste The Republican Disarray Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON Even while PmsiHpnt vu hower is courageously struggling with his illness The official U. Board f thruniverX JNorth Cafotnl' f t Carp 11 (til j n N-vuhTvfra'.i.' v-.t,!. hi firii i-So 1 ? H S - f i ! .. . luiurs : . where it is published daily except Monday : na examination and """""" yeuvas and summer terms. Enter ed as second class matter in the post of fice in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the Act 'of March 8, 1879. Sub scription cates: mail- 1 ed, $4 per year, $2.50 vj semester; delivered, 'Xt $6 a year, $3.50 a se- mcsier. ED YODER, LOUIS KRAAR factorily. Dr. White's opinion has r screaming in fiendish glee, goine fuJ516 3 .S.?rt of RePublican slogan. And this sort of . . . . i ro u;ii j-aiKt.H.. a. like the Silver Chief on a down grade. Puffing heavily behind him came the girl again, followed in turn by the 12-year-old. De catur hung a swift right turn and shot up the dog food alley thill? will niiifn i . iL,umy Become more and more widespread and overt as the President's health im proves. PRESSURE SHOCKING evenr'tVhTTr' U is obviously unrealistic and even pretty shockins to cnntinr tw- You go the other way! Up pTace RlSTfter v1"- first re!" commanded Deratr W l 1Cns had Portrayed it as a wicked guardian to her henchman. The when " .l11 ! term twelve-year-old Swn nff .l. VI np'iop pnysical condition the brP;tfat .i I';,-: u wnen evelt accepted , - . v u octuuii uw u w there s. no more than a little wealed by the bur- "'s uuiue. contrary to comir o vvarnin w . hnnrt otfi, r Went through) and annParoH nr.. illnpc ; i ' . . s c,nur n. Tu. r ,r. .4T "'uus- inan Dronchrtis. FurthermorP. vy Old ladies nnllAH thoti- u- j. . 'u. F . . ins onice. Contrary to common ionA Uie uucn' 80 l eak, as she had no warnins, heart tt " 'V ' "T - "j., nuy. umer recent sently at the other end of the he had just been certified -uy losing bewildered. The battalions of doctors, including the reat S in other girl joined her, and both corruptible Dr. Frank Lahev of thi fL -S " : .... uunvv viiuii:, Managing Editor ic.il FRED POWLEDGE News Editor JACKIE GOODMAN NEWS STAFF Neil Bass, Charles DunnJames Nichols, Mike Vester, Bennie Baucom, Bunny Klenke, Ruth. Rush, Curtis Cans, Jimmy Purks Joan McLean, Nancy Link, Bill Corpening, Vir' gima Hughes, Clarke Jones, Wilson Cooper Char lie Sloan Jerry Cuthrell. Peg Humphrey, Nancy Kothschild, Barbara Newcomb. NiSht Editor For This issue lonlfPrl JiolnloccliT i - t . A ' itn ii - . . iMO ue """ven in 1944 was more than three vear Catur- younger than Eisenhower will 'be in 1956 Rt . Quite:-aside from this parallel which ought to RlIT t horn t-v . hp Holcivi 1, . V"b1 IU " wa i iecaiur: nere i"-"""-, mcic are current he came, pounding along from a completely unexpected quarter, clutching his sailor hat and grin ning like a gargoyle. We flat tened ourself against a bunch of brooms to give him sea-room. The wind of his passing ruffled our hair. Wuy U is unrealistic for the Republicans rS:hdthehat Ei?f -will now goPforward as though the recent tragedy had really never hao- Tf iV ... f".!Llfe!n? Sn Were hiiiey opposed to his do But all that is rhancr -. . uu.r. xnu iresiaent can not any longer be pressured to run, because no one will dare to pressure him after what has happened, it is no mans duty to run for the President after a coronary thrombosis. The U. S. Army, in which the Hn 1 V W3S tra,ned- has a rong contrary tradi tion, that a commanding officer whose health is at all impaired has a positive duty to hand his com mand over to another. By any honest assessment, in truth, the growing talk about the President running again in spite of his heart attack is nothing more nor less than a symptom of Republican disarray. The Republican eaders have no idea, for the moment, which way to turn or what to do or where to look. Yet by the normal rules of politics, this Repub lican surrender to panie is almost ludicrously pre mature. The world's seemingly peaceful state may be phony or it may be real. But for practical poli tical purposes, the Republicans in 1956 will still be able to use "peace" as one glorious plank in their platform And unless things go very wrong in the next twelve months, they will also be able to use prosperity" as the other glorious plank. - Most political carpenters believe that a platform W fu -h0Se two pIanks hardIy needs any others. Why, then, does panic prevail? PANIC PREVAILS The answer " seems to be that the terrible mis fortune of the President's illness hac .u. t Republican, f.no tn .u i" ..TV r "1C the nomination; their own self-i, :. r l01 of hhle to the Pre dent,,. They , have not undertaken the hard and nec- SS, 4transflng their party into an Ei3enhovver party. The proof bf their folly came to them in the 1954 Congressional election, but they went right on relying on the President to win for them in 1956. tr i - :here is no visible reasoU however, why the Republican leaders cannot now do what they ou-ht to have done , before. They have no right to plead with the President-to mn again. Unless he Lively wishes; to. run, which seems highly improbable he has a nglit to be let alone on this point. But the Republican leaders will certainly be justified, if the President makes a good recovery, in asking him to S Course and nroionf no..., j: i x-- woiiv ulauuru j luiuiiiauiig ins own successor. in Curtis Gans 2- SO. Hp hai -int-- i a - -'"ti juol auu il rn p r; a i h : i . t . he would have to run, all thp sam it .-.nfinJ ' , "v-vausc vi uie again, laughinsr and shnt.t 7. ov. Sherman Adams Chair. ins, by, the bread shelf. ... . was TH-e-'e'Te-clse- around him that 11 was his .duty to finisltHhe job." The two girls eventually caught 1 til A ranriirlto u-im .. u . . . w u presented as a true Eisenhower man, a party that the country believes is truly an Eisenhower party these are the onlv requirements the Republicans must fulfill. in order to regam their former confidence. And they are not impossible requirements to fulfill, either 'Vensoin Announces In; Nov. Doris Fiecson WASHINGTON Adlai Ste venson will announce in Nov ember that he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President. He is, however, still wrestling with the next question reporters will put to him. It is: . Will you enter the Presidential preference primaries in the states? He has been told by his sup porters within the states them selves that he must say yes. But some of his national advisors are counselling him to hold back ar guing that Senator Kefauver or some other favorite son might knock him off before he gets to Chicago. It is not a decision that can long be avoided. Senator Ke fauver will arrive in Seattle next week from his long journey through Europe, including Rus sia, and Asia. t He will be met by friends who will start planning with him a Kefauver campaign in which the primaries are a vital element. CHALLENGE The Stevenson people in the states are aware that they are going to be faced with a Kefau ver challenge on the home grounds. They are asking their man htw he can possibly just ify ducking it. It is a real quandary for Ste venson who has no public office at his back, no large treasury or fortune to dip int0 and who is going to have to start an or ganization from scratch. To the professional politicians the Presidential primaries are frankly a nuisance. They are ex pensive t0 enter and full of un charted,' unknowable pitfalls. There is no assurance that glo rious primary victories will in fluence a national convention; sometimes they have and some times they haven't. But they have great appeal in the Republic. It seems only fair that men wh0 want to be Presi dent should be willing to put their fate to small tests before they ask for the big prize. There is a tendency these days to in sist that nation-wide telecasts are the answer to all politics but Americans still like .to shake the hand that may some day shake the hand of world's leaders HARD WORK For the candidate personally they are the hardest work he will ever do. Once he achieves the national ticket, the money starts coming in and much can be done for him. In the proving ground p the primary, he is much alone, and greatly depen dent on himself. One thing is certain. Once in a primary, the aspiring politi cian had better make sure he wins. It may not help him but it will hurt him if he loses. This is particularly true of Ste venson at this point for his stand ing has not been tested by actual count for three years. The primaries are again nec essary to Senator Kefauver be cause so few organization poli ticians have taken his side. His supporters are convinced that he is as popular with the rank and file of Democrats as he proved to be in 1953. "That's a rye joke, Roger," The h- Ugh, same old Horse! But why the win "It it ain't wan thing, it's another," j sighed, sweeping his typer, papers poly-sci reference books to the floor & in a grand gesture. "Ike's illness has scarM proposing a Constitootional Conventior"-! gotta do something about this business''' good men by making them front-men f,, ... .... - - w l ai pnoniness. ana me idling the likes of i Nixon threaten us with becoming p , What was wrong with Nixon? "Ask his Republican buddies whom h double-crossing day and night," The Hore. "If you can stand their lankwich, that is V make specific reply. Ninety-five' ycais a-i ing to historical evidence, another Rcpub' managed to make a arunken, drooling s-v-himself; but this was manly and decern to the televised cry-baby act DickieBov when his snide sell-out of his California cl, which had been committed to Earl sorely threatened with retributive justice"' What else did The Horse know? "He blubbered; he called on St. iv:; him, for some obscure reason; he hauled handy pocket a pooch named Checkers snj a picture of how disappointed Checkers Dickie-Boy didn't make it; he wrung his V not the national heart, by sobbing over his I Ohone and wurra-wurra, that we should r possible for such as him to assume tV the likes of Ike!" J knew all of this, but I'd been trying going over it again. Besides, since when; Horse such a rabid Ike-supporter, since t "I've never said Ike wasn't a pood heart," The Horse shrugged. "But I dj and now, that this country is too big for r to President, or too big a population to ca" President to shake everybody's paw, k: lay cornerstones, and do his work, too. T: should be tabu by law. It is ludicrous to ; with Secret Service guards to ward oil c and then let his alleged well-wishers do Im impossible duties and functions and rc Agreed! So . . .? "So let's some one, or both, parties, picking out two good men to run for the instead of one; let's assign a gfood V-P to the President's ornery and ornerous ci;.: even change things so each President c'. -not alone with a good V-P ... and not; stooge or sectional-sop or ambition-mad w per . . . but also names on the ticket three A Presidents who will go in as a team with i. What! Change the Constitution? "It was changed eight time before it adopted," The Horse waved a deprcca "The Constitution is with us today bee;: capable of observing the primary requiii'c ing alive; and that is, change. And me, Ix Constitutions and live Presidents, and Constitutions and dead Presidents." Well, hadn't Dickie-Boy cr, pari: President Nixon said they were a tear.? "Yeah," The Horse horse-launghed, ' of team where ten guys run interferon:?' Ike while Ike carries the ball on every d the final one It's got to stop, this businr ing President and ending up with a p ror" But, Nixon had put Hess into jail! t "I know a cop," The Horse mused. "w two hundred guys in jail. Flatfoot Flans.-: called, and he has a big dog which he ca': dog name Fido! and none of ycr 1 sissy-names. Saaaaaaaaaaaay, maybe I an foot Flannagan on the ticket with Ad!.: New York's Governor Harriman. maybe: i" Me? I left to consult with the real V. A University roo Firm Had the faculty and administration Hopkins University scared easily, they r been stampeded into hasty and irrevo in the case of Owen Lattimore. When i McCarthy, and then Senator McCarraii. the Truman Administration's Departs tice, and then the Eisenhower Admin:-'-' partment of Justice, undertook to brad Lattimore a Communist agent and ;'''' tain corporate fortitude was required fori university to withstand the pressure to S- Johns Hopkins did withstand the r" ter he had been legally indicted. ' placed Lattimore on leave with pay should be legally disposed of. It never F' case, never equated an accusation tion, never bowed to the storm of The storm has moderated now. The c twice thrown out key counts of the ly dicmenb. The United States Governmt'ni the dismissal of its case again.-t him- ' Hopkins can take pride in a ice with the quiet announcement that Yr Lattimore has resumed his duties a the university. -sr. Louis ost-) vrd
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