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PAG 5 TWO fHS DAILY TAR HSCL TUESDAY, .. A Revised History ?: Senator Ervin IN THE NATION North Carolinians, it seems, arc just not content with America's history; leading men in government keep insLtinj; on rewriting the facts to suit their attitudes of, the mo ment. Last spring in the General Assembly an aggressive group of re writers from Mecklen burg sought to have their historically du bious Declaration of Independence 'enshrin ed. The historians bqlked, and truth won over the politicians. ' - I Wit now, from none other than XL S. Sen ator Sam J. F.rvin Jr. comes a reevaluation of hi.storv because he' doesn't a-Aee with the U. S. Supreme Court. ' ..', Castigating the Court for Lack, of judicial restraint, Sen. Ervin turned his tide of invec tive against Constitutional Father Alexander Hamilton. In "The Federalist" Hamilton hail defended the lack of a definite check on the judicial branch on grounds that the judges .self-restraint woidd serve as a check. Fine, says Sen. Ervin,. for the past. IUit now, he contends, the court has "usurped the powd er to nullify acts of Congress." Perhaps Sen. Ervin recalls a case called Murlnny vs. Madison, in which the principle of judicial review was firmly established. But, we must remember, that was in ancient Am erican history. And since Sen. Ervin disa grees with the Court now-rewritten. Man FT I -t euvers tor Losnion jn Arthur Krock AM". Times Staffer WASHINGTON The dark horses in the Democratic contest for the Presidential nomination 2re no- being identified, which is the second logical step in a classic political situation. The situation arises whe'n the outlook for oartv success is changing from poor to promising. happened with respect Democratic nomination That to the 1355 of when President Eisenhower had a heart attack and the impres sion grew that in his sixty-fifth year he will not ask the voters to keep him in the White House' until he is almost 70. The instant result of such a development is that party politi cians who were reasonably re signed tp the prospect of a nomi nee from whom they differed strongly on political tactics and philosophy, anticipating hisde- feat, anyhow, begin to thick of the convention victor as the next President. On that revised con cept it becomes of paramount im portance to them to acquire if they can the convention strength to get concessions to their view point from the front-runaers and keep dark hordes groomed just in cae. The concessions are a feasible objective because, eo matter how bright the prospect, the balance between the two Wise Guys!' -all that must be C ( j l&j If Rip In Robinson's Quaint Tapestry Orte Henry Morton Robinson, a' product-, of Columbia University, finding his writing agenda bare of other possibilities, ..has,. writ ten a long, nasty paean to the "natural su periority" of the Ivy Group schools for Holi day Magazine. The article is long because it containeth much fabrication (as they say Up There); and nasty because -Mr. Robinson jumps up and down on the bleached bones of near ly every college which is not to be found in the sacred groves of the East. In this perfect untwining of the sort of academic solecism entertained Up There in the sr.vred groves, he assumes, as a sort of na tural premise, the "Can ariything good come out of a state university?' attitude. State uni- : vcrsitics, for bin ,are "educational '-HiiXlU warrens . . . wb se inmates," he hears from ' reliable sources, "gradually learn the use of ! commas rnd can. be 'trained 'to perform sim ple feats of logic connected ivith chain-store ' n l ana 'z(' nicnt, c r h i - a 1 r m ba 1 mi n g and pt her? I disciplines much revered -by the American? clemos.'' .-' : f ; Well, we blush and whimper withapold- gies, lrora our little corner of the rabbit-war- 9 ' reii, that we can't leep pace y ith those deriii-' . " gods of the Ivy Croup. Who coulclIn .Ir. Robinson's mythology,, they read 300-ufoa; pa ges (sic) of required reading every day; work ; their wav through school in the majority of matTPP OP PAf T instances; take four-day week-ends (doubt- " rM' Jessly Jugging carpet-bags with four days "worth of tomes); and find time three or four occasions within the week to drink them selves into fair oblivion by the shores of Housatonic, the Charles, or the Cayuga. As of Monday, however, there is an awful rip in Mr. Robinson's quaint tapestry. Brown Univeisity has inaugurated as its 12th presi dent Dr. Baraby Keeney (UNC, '37) who is, manifestly, one of those rough-hewn rabbit warren products. (All schooled in the use of commas, .management of chain stores,' and ethical embalming.) - Alas and Alack! Mr. -Robinson's bucket's got a hole in it. ' -- - '"" - -T TTfl mi H 3 . '""r ---4r 4 1 tlA J rrr.-' Ifh m (P rt (Pi P n m n 1 r 111 t! 'id -i to: . hU4 - .uffl w Fhe Christian Herter Candidacy The" official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, ' where it is oublished 1) li i ! i J i I J If 4 i I ! u Editors Managing Editor News Editor Business Manager Associate Editor Sports Editor Advertising Manager Assistant Business Manager Coed Editor Circulation Manager Subscription Manager '. Staff Artist 1 Joseph & Stewart AIsop WASHINGTON The hard-headed political pro fessionals are taking more and more interest in the embryo Republican candidacy of Governor Christ ian Herter, of Massachusetts.. -- The Herter candidacy is in the embryo stage, in the sense that the extremely able Massachusetts governor has not yet indicated his decision to run even to those closest to him. It is also a strictly re gional affair, thus far, t with few if any reprecus sion outside New England. But it is a real candidacy, in the sense that Governor Herter can almost .certainly be expected to rua if President Eisenhower neither runs himself nor designates, his successor. And in the future this Herter candidacy can have the most far-reaching national reDercussions. if onlv hpnu nf its daily except Monday Dossible efferts nn thp fnrtnnp rf nthr PDnw;n,n ' " - w.- AJAAt.ii and examination and hopefuls, such as Vice President Nixon in particular. To dispose first of the reasons for thinking that the Hprtpr fanriir!afi- ic a msl tHitur nnrler tVi n-r. it fice in Chanp! w?i diti0hs named' they are of an extremely practical '! r Iv ' ; nature. A man who wants to have a trv for high ii u, under the Act of nfr;a -,i-., r : t March 8, 1879 Sub- 7 , , " 1. fday possiois '5 sc-iDtio -f -t dlS(luaIlIlcations. ? T . . 41 GoVPmnr Hprtpr SJlffprc frnm fun nn(nr;il ea '54 per Year ?2 r.n . junuuai uu- 'semester; deliver aW!?i01,f!i,e dubts about 'his health' caused his eligibility for .the Presidency, caused by his having been bom in Paris. Action has been taken already to remove one of these disqualifications. Governor Herter's doctors have advised fiim that his arthritis is not Drosress- JACKIE GOODMAN ive: that his condition is actually improving some- nrTrZr-S what; aRd lhat u constitutes no bar to any political BILL BOB PEEL i effort he may wish to make. His birth in Paris would annpar tn - t-r-"- j"jjc a iuui c In fact, however, both WprtprV WAYNE BISHOP parents were American citizens and he was register ed at the U. S. Consulate immediatplv xftr- k;v. vacation periods and 1 1 auiiiiner terms, linter l ed as second class 15 a year. S3.50 a K.m.cf.i. LOUIS' KRAAR, ED YODER -r- - FRED POWXEDGE J. A. C. serious problem. Dick Sirkin EDITORIAL STAFF Bill Ragsdale. Carolyn Nelson rnus the la ers have E doubt at all that Herter is Peg Humphrey ne of the "naturaI borTl" Americans who are alone Jim Kiley chZlhle according to the Constitution, to enter the . Jim Chamblee White House' The Problem, really, is not whether Charlie Daniel HerteT 15 eligible, but how to remove the slight cioud of doubt by having his eligibility legally de- IJUSINESS STAFF Fred M;iry Grady Burnette, Wainer, Darvl C'hascn Nltfht IMitor Fur This Issue Bill O'SulIivan, Charles Dunn, clared. Various ways of getting the necessary legal judg ment have already been explored in the Herter camp. One of them is to have the Governor enter the New Hampshire primary next March; and then to have the Secretary of State of New Hampshire Katzen, Stand Bershaw, Charlotte Lilly, Ted Reuben Leonard question his eligibility, so that the matter, can be referred to the Federal District Court. Ojher de vices are also being discussed, but all of them and here is the significant point revolve around a test of the Governor's right to run in the Presi dential primary in New Hampshire. " ' Right here, of course, is where the professional polls see the Herter candidacy assuming great na tional meaning. The New Hampshire primary is the first and therefore the most closely .watched of the whole long series of Presidential primaries. In the present instance. New Hampshire has parti cular interest for Republicans, in 'view., of the state's close White House connection with former Governor Sherman Adams. If President Eisenhower means to indicate-his preferred successor, but wishes to avoid any formal, public statement, Governor Adams can do the job for him in New Hampshire. As has been stated. Governor Herter's candidacy will not materialize if the President chooses to run again or wishes to designate the Republican nomi nee, directly or indirectly. Herter was one of the original Eisenhower Republicans and he is an Eisen hower man through and through. But if the race is open, Herter will enter the New Hampshire pri mary. A New- Hampshire race between Governor Herter and Vice President Nixon will then be a strong possibility. In such a test, Nixon would presumably be sup ported by the New Hampshire faction of Senator Styles Bridges. Herter would have two assets his own great "deserved popularity in New England, and the backing of the anti-Bridges faction. In similar 4ests in the past, the Bridges faction in New Hamp shire has been repeatedly trounced. In short, if the test occurs, a Herter victory is by no means im possible. . This single possibility is of course enough to arouse the interest of the political, professionals in the Herter candidacy. With Massachusetts, New Hampshire and a considerable number of delegates -from the other New England states, Herter would be an extremely important regional candidate. Al though still regional,, his candidacy would auto matically and importantly affect the standings of all of the other candidates. The real question for Herter himself, meanwhile is whether he can raise himself from the regional into the national class. As an 'excellent governor of a big state who is also a 100 pr cent Eisen hower man, he meets two thirds of the Republicans specifications. But whether he can put himself over nationally remains to be seen. major parties is always delicate and outright defection or "token" support can reverse the scales. . The mention of dark horses is the second step in the process, as noted above, and Senator Russell of Georgia, a very influential member f the legislative major ity and perhaps the most influ ential Democrat of the South has just taken it by suggesting that Governor Lausche of Ohio is admirably qualified to be the party nominee. The first step consists of such conferences as those Lyndon B. Johnson of Tex as, the Senate majority leader, has been holding with some Demo crats from all over the country who want the party and its non inee of 1956 to espouse and main tain the political "middle-of-the-road philosophy. Not until Adlai E. Stevenson announces the platform on which he will seek renomination and lead the partT if chosen can the conferees at Johnson's LBJ ranch assay whether Stevenson will be too far to the Left of their con cept of where the party should stand in the campaign and, more importantly, in governing the country. If he comes within sig nal range of what they call their "moderate" position, they will certainly join in no convention blocking movement against him, though they still may encourage longer-certified "moderates" to try out their convention strength. Lausche meets "this specification in a considerable degree; so does Senator Stuart Symington of Mis souri; so, eminently, does John son himself. On the other hand, Governor Harriman of New York and Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennesse apparently and postive ly do not not. POSSIBLES AND OBSTACLES There are obstacles, however, to the success of any "moderate" strategy that has for its goal the "choice of the nominee in addition to the shaping of the platform. Lausche is a Catholic; he married a non-Catholic; and some politi cal pros fear this would impose a double-action handicap. He is about as nonpartisan as a man can be who runs for office under a party label (successfully in Ohio on five occasions): in 1950 he re fused to aid the Democratic ef fort to defeat Senator Taft for re-election; the very day Russell praised him Lausche endorsed President Eisenhower's record; and party office-holders, workers and managers always see thin times for them under such a White House incumbenL Johnson might have been the greatest threat to Stevenson's no mination by convention time if he had not suffered a heart at tack. He is only 46, and friends who continue to urge his quali fications insist, that his youth and already impressive recovery give full assurance of his capacity to administer the country, even if the President at 65 should come to the contrary conclusion about himself. But on this there seems to be wide dissent in the Demo cratic party. In a protracted . convention deadlock between two front-runners, or a close, lengthy and in conclusive balloting among three, the qualifications of Symington would undoubtedly be pressed though he comes from the strate gic State of Missouri and has at tained prominence on certain major issues, the country is not as aware -of him as other possi bles. And, meeting before the Republicans make their nomina tion, the masters of the Demo cratic convention will be inclined to put a heavy premium on ready-made national reputations. That factor operates adversely to Lausche also, whom Governor Shivers of Texas has how joined Russell in commending to the convention. . But none of the assets or handi caps of any Democrat mentioned, including the strong balance of those in Stevenson's favor, has suppressed or altered the classic pattern of maneuver that is uow emerging in the Democratic par ty. In the suddenly changed pros pect this pattern and its phases of development are historic and inevitable. Any politician knows that. If there were any doubt it should have been resolved by the recent shifts of emphasis on can didates that were made by one of the greatest pros in the trade Harry S. Truman of Indepen-" dence, Mo. Presidential m Straws In The Wind Doris Fleeson NEWARK, NX Only a few elections this fall could possibly be construed as straws m t. e pre-Presidential wind. One them i in New Jersey where a whole new assembly and half tne state Senate will be elected on November 8- , t . In 1953, New Jersey elected a Democratic governor, Robert Mevner, signalling a resurgent Democratic tide which m 1&4 put the party back in control of Congress and gave it 27 gover norships. Meyn-er now has put his own prestige on the line m an effort to end 41 years of un interrupted Republican domina tion of the legislature. - Meyner himself insists that state elections should be regarded as purely stats affairs. He praises New Jersey's plan of electing its governor and legislature in off years and believes that many county level races are merely personality contests. o Nonetheless if his own efforts, which he has centered in issues, not people, bring profoundly Democratic results, his national prestige will be enhanced as well as his ability to govern. His party also can be expected to exult about the Democratic trend as it did recently when Connecticut, in little-noticed balloting, overturn ed long - established Republican control of many of its small towns. Something different was added to the New. Jersey contests last week when Governor Goodwin J. Knight of California suddenly entered the state to campaign for a Republican legislature. Gov ernor Meyner promptly invited Governor Knight to visit him but Knight said he would not have time. The statehouse quip is that a new daj' has dawned with a Goody Knight and the Meyner forces doubt that the Califomian has inflicted any serious damage on them. Essex County of which Newark is the major city is expected to determine which party will con trol the legislature. Both Re publicans and Democrats con ceed that the contests here will be extremely close. Democrats also believe they have "sleeper" candidates who will win unexpected victories in Middlesex and Somerset Coun ties. (What is interesting about both Middlesex an Somerset is that the Democrats there" have been copying the tactics of the Eisen hower crusade. In 1952, Eisen hower played in the Democratic backfield, levelling a strong "good government" appeal at the party fringe which demands good candidates and a progressive ad-mi-;itration. InSomerset, Charles W. Eng elhard, the Democratic candidate for the state Senate, has set up both Citizens for Engelhard .and Republicans for Englehard groups. These have proved at tractive to independents and to Republicans disgusted with their own factional fighting which was dramatized nationally when pro McCarthyites attempted to defeat U. S. Senateor Clifford Case last year. o Case pulled through on pre cisely the same appeal that Engel hard, a wealthy respected indus trialist, is making. Engelhard's race is also significant because he is running against one of the Eisenhower leaders in the state, State Senator Malcolm Forbes. Forbes ran for the GOP nomina tion for Governor in 1953 but was defeated by Paul Troast who in turn was beaten by Governor Meyner. Such races are local as Meyner insists, yet they are the sign's of a trend that .professional politic ians recognize. It is that each year the party fringes are growing'and that they are composed of men and women who will not vote for the party "yellow dogs" but dfv mand something better in candi .xdJtes and Policy than merely party regularity. - i I Charles D- Chapel Hill is "home av.Sv who nave oeen nere i;r a .... seem more like home thin freshmen and new transf-tr in many places is syr.:.:. ; . cf North Carolina, has '.' and is beginning to set- ? i-a . ." This acquired liking cf Q--:- students is an annual prcce less to grow cn newcomers. . pel Hill just seems like a V. get an education, but as t;p -V come attached to the K.ih -,; and when the time comes to ' you sort cf hate to graduate. And once you have left t'1- - according to certain feorie. Ch -like home. You take rr: :- m print or near them ikii J- friendlv town, with an around a dignified (buillr.;;. cultural advantages cf laro; nonnlo likp to enrrp V-r'- - - some even to stay. The Chapel Hill Weekfv Ho fsftnrc thai r:Vcc t--, . frnm home in thp;r Y.:? ".-"---- seven months in preparation, v; The "Chapel Hill A G il v was divided into vsric - ing one of the many reasons vv. Good Place for Yea." It wc-uii the limited space of this co'.-- special edition as a source, we some of the reasons whv w "- "A Good Place for You." "Chapel Hill: A Good i'!ce I. The University cf North Car;'. highest standings in the r.a:.;-. selected 3 colleges on the cir.o- 1 i 4 . and it is accredited by every in its field, both on an ir.str.o also by the various schools a: faculty of the University is zl: in research and instruction. 1 I . . - 3; . 1 .1. . . and" those Who -just read cr hear than just a school: more on the 1 T. ' i ' craer wnere evervoocv v-. r-Ci And even though the campus h for everyone to know everybody i leiiutrnuy 10 i-peax. to i. puses. Whether you like to take a:, or just sit on the sidelines ar.d is certainly a good $lzce to be. iae lauer tnere is also son:e i can use you, and certainly tr.cr niui 41 oCiiiiy. r or woui:i? i - ftAilU;An m - n golf courses, and a few lakes for From a spectator's view Char program of sporis events, ir.e'. some ct tne country s better tea 1 A.1 ... xetoan. nasehflii. winirr. :ra tional television and msny cthe cnapei imi: A Good i'iace t I he town is ssid to have t; "the Chapel on the Hill." an E: was established near here ir. - colonial period. And since tnat must even- important eier.. tablished in Chapel Hill. Mo have student groups, atteniei here at the University. Several of these churches v. purpose of serving University through the years students b Part in these churches and Chapel Hill: A Good Place u Alihough many students 'o. ' a few of them are off camros arouna cnapei n- COnneCt PVPn mnm c tV !"r:v Students are also ccnr.ecu, v of the town when they trade or ness here. For the most part. : the village a good place to s' T friendly and helpful. mu. .V UUUU l i.iLv It is still a little early for r. iwm a place to live. sr. retire. But some graduates c: ' here every year to raise th-.r meir mark m the world, a no ates. loved in their youth. Art:-! rttv.n- xi " r tages and conveniences of a t hs the friendliness and the of a small village.
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