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Why Nor Doff The Plume? .READER'S RETORT, More and more sports contests end in riot these days. The Carolina-Wake Forest basketball game Wednesday night fits the pattern. Doens of free-swinging specta tors charged onto the conn after the game and pyt on, a local Hay market affair because of one in cident between two players which should have ended promptly and probably would have. One other massive demonstra- .... tion of the new idea came just be fore Christmas when a bodv of engineers from Georgia Tech played the rambling wreck role prescribed in their school ssong. They marched on the Governor's mansion, even burned the gover nor in effigy, because he threat ened for racial reasons to bar Tech from a. foot ball lxwl game. The Raleigh News and Ob server has expressed official doubt, that so much emotion over sjxrts could have been worked up in an earlier day.. Perhaps they were apathetic then. Or, perhaps they were more gentlemanly, since sports- have always forced blood pressures up. The News and Ob server recalls the day when every one resorted to the same old saw: The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.v Strategy and crisp thinking won the field days, then, not emotional inomentiim. Now the rule has shifted: Strategy, crisp thinking, sportsmanship, even tact, are all right as long as they prevail at the start. If" they fail, the Hay market riot psychology is rolled out to whip up victory or compen sation. Perhaps, the X & O has sug gested, we have been the dupes ol n lake idea. Perhaps we. have had the wool pulled over our ankles bv the sportsmen who still advo cate strategy and tact, and we need more of the old fist punch. Per haps winning is everything. , After all, as that admirable con temporary says, "the plume never really helped the kinght anyway." ears 3 S I UNC I! P : Editors: Up till now I have been a real, pardon the expression, "gung-ho" Carolina supporter. For years I have had my heart set on attending the University. I was raised near Chapel Hill and have had two brothers and a sister to attend college there. Carolina, has always given me the impression of being a liberal arts college endowed with a kind 'Ain't Nobody Here But Just Us Public Servants' i Eisenhower s Six Doctors When six doctors hold a press conference to report on the Presi dent's hervlth, nothing is more in evitable than that becoming a cam paign issue. While Democrats apparently will not wage a campaign merely on Eisenhower's health, that , fac; tor must enter every voter's think ing particularly since the Presi dent himself makes so much of it. Americans have never before re ceived more detailed information about a President's health. The ar dent desire of Republicans that Kisehower run again seems to have motivated this health publicity campaign. Certainly the people have n right to know how7 'their chief ex ecutive is holding up under the strain of office. But Republican publicity ageiitsjave gone too. far. The canohyol good taste were vi olated w hen dd tor's launched in to a detailed discussion of the President's bowel viovcment.s in an earner pres conicrenxe. ;ua u, Paul I'uolcy White's indication that he would vote for Eisenhower lucidly constitutes legitimate medi cal information. At this week's medical press con ference, the doctors at first issued a mimeographed statement sticking strictly to medical facts. But Dr. ' White's additional ' summary state ment" opened "a floodgate of questions that had definite polit ical implications." as New York Times reporter James Reston put it. The doctors didn't white-wash Eisenhower's health by declaring he could, carry on active life satis factorily for another 5 to 10 years. They made it clear that they could be wrong. However, medical men never should have entered politi cal discussion. If the President decides to run again, it will be his own choice, doctors say. Put some Republican politicians seenv ready to coerce the President to "run at all costs. This is becoming., more, evident with each staged medical press con ference. ;-,,- - .';. .'jw.Jt-:. 9 nig . X i M I 'V- i vi?; ' - ... x X. 1 f. .1 . , of renaissance and intellectual atmosphere. I have always heard -what a xfine journalism depart ment the University had, and it is: known that it is famous for its liberal and" free expression. While at Davidon I've always up held Carolina in every way pos sible but now since this censor-ship-.Gf-the-press attitude has been taken by a small percent-, age of the student body, my loy alty and admiration is somewhat dubious. x When I heard about this juy inile action of ousting the edi tors that was taken by some . of the students, I was completely shocked. I had not read the edi torial to which their action was directed but the mere thought of this rash, undemocratic-action against an editorial knocked me off my feet. I didn't know any thing so narrow minded and un democratic could - have taken place at the University. It seems to me that the Uni versity is. going from' one ex treme liberalism and freedom, to another censorship and con servativism. Who knows, in a few more years the old "Hill" might-have' ''book burnings" like some other extreme, conserva tive and undemocratic schools in the state. T was happily surprised to ;, read an article about the recall move in the Davidson College -newspaper, by Pat Miller which I think Carolina could benefit immensely from reading. After reading this observation by Mr. Miller, if you want to see and read what a small, pious, denominational, liberal arts col lege writes in the way of liberal and descriminating editorials and newspaper articles, write to T h e Davidsonian, Davidson College, Davidson, North Caro ina. I think it would be worth your efforts. Maybe some ofiij freedom-of-the-press characteris- ' tics will rub off on the attitude of the Carolina student. In the meantime J don't have any here- burnjnss. ij over nor Could Step j By Joseph a Sfewgrt Ak WASHINGTON If President draws Governor Christian A. Herterf ? ts will become a most, serious rai?" uepuoncan nomination. Herter will have professional or; important political and financial pf most of the Republican professionals he will have at the least a sportic winning the nomination from such ? obvious candidates as Vice-President p? on" and Senator William Knowland " Indeed, the Herter talk among RCp, ' beginning to be a meaningful political !C ralher like the talk about Adlai E. Sievt" Democrats in the very early days ihea was aLu little known nationally. " There are several reasons why Hert- taken more and more seriously as a po v tute candidate. He has important qualif.--" ing served ably in both the domestic policy fields. He is a proven vote-getter : as one admirer put it, "a sort of preslfev r I ' ' 'I . He has also been an all-out Eisenhower 1 the very first, and finally he is the on!v visible alternative candidate on whoa' orphous but powerful group of men r largely responsible for President Eiseri;" mination could agree. : Vice-President Nion is not such a . dent : Eisenhower withdraws and firmly; 5 Nixon as his successor there will be, of V really ierious opposition to Nixon from li: hower men. Otherwise, there certainly will STUDENT PARTY Reader's Retort On Germans FVeshman Lobks At Parties Editors: It was not very long ago that I over heard two girls talking. "Why is it when a boy asks you over to Carolina to Ger mans he tells you to bring two cocktail dress and 21 pairs of Bermuda shorts," one asked. ' 'They don't want to go to the dances any more. -They'd rather drink," came the answer. "But you can't, drink at the dances." "S-3 they won't go, and consequently we can't either." "I'd like to go too, but" been over four times and I haven't been to a dance yet." "I'd like to do too, but " They moved away and I heard no more, but I had heard enough. What they had said summed up the situation precisely. Three times a year hundreds of the girls come to this campus for Germans weekends. Many of them get to the concert. Few of them go td the dance. They don't go to .the dance be- The Daily Tar Heel The official student publication of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examination and vacation periods and summer terms. Entered as second class matter in the post office in Chapel Hill. N. C, under the Act of March 8, 187r. Subscription rates: mailed, 4 per year, $2.50 a se mester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a se mester. Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE News Editor.. CHARLIE JOHNSON Business Manager BILL BOB PEEL Sports Editor WAYNE BISHOP Advertising Manager Dick Sirkin Asst. Bus. Manager Carolyn Nelson Coed Editor. Peg Humphrey Subscription Manager Jim Chamblee Stalf Artist Charlie Daniel BUSINESS STAFF Fred Katzin, Star Bershaw, Rosa Moore, Charlotte Lilly, Ted Wainer, Daryl Chasen, Johnny Witaker. OFFICE TELEPHONES News, editor ial, subscription: 9-3361. News, busi ness: 9-337 lrr-Night phone: 8-444 or 8 445. ?H;;ht Editor ..-Charlie Sloan cause their dates won't take them. There seems to be a great imbalance in the judgement of values among the students here. Les Brown is to appear here this Saturday for a concert and dance. He has perhaps the top orchastra in the coyntry at this time. It goes without saying that he is very difficult to get because of the quality of his mus ic. This is the second time in ten rrtonths that he, has been to the campus of the University of North Carolina. ThL- frequency of appearance exhib its the fact that the German Club is furnishing the best in entertainment three weekends out of the year. But the students aren't enjoying it. A great many of them are missing out on a lot of fun; they are missing a part of Carolina be cause Germans has been a part of this school longer than anyone can remem ber; Those of you who have parents who went to school here have undoubt edly heard them talk about the fun they had at the dances, and they will remin isce too because they remembr and cannot come back and experience those good-times again. One reason that you don't go to the dances is that you can't drink while you are there. I will be the first to ad mit that this is a rather undesirable i'ituation. But you can't drink in the movies "either, and attendance there is rather high. You will sit in an admit tedly lousy flick for two hours because you have nothing better to do. It is just as inconsistant for you to fail to go to a Germans dance because you can't take a drink as it is for you to i-tay away from the movies for the same reason. You are missing something that you can never recapture. Did it ever occur to you that perhaps your date would prefer to get herself all prettied up and go to the dance than sit around in some cold cabin in Ber mudas and watQh you gi smashed? You have you-date to 4hink about, too. Ger mans belong partly to her simply be cause you have aked her to s-hare it , with you. You may say that it takes a lot of time and trouble for your date to get into an evening dress and that they are uncomfortable to boot. Possibly, But I have yet to meet the young lady who will not take infinite pains in order to make herself look attractive. They don't mind the trouble at all, for it is really no trouble. "It is the nature of the beast." That is just the way little girls are made. And big girls too. Les Brown and I will be in Woollen Gym Saturday night. Won't you join us? George Franklin By John Brooks . I (Beginning today, The Daily Tar Heel icill open,, its editorial page once a week to both campus political parties. Today's column is. from the Stu dent Party; the next willcome from, the Univer sity Party. Editors) I entered the University this fall totally unfami liar with the existing student? government and its functions. Realizing that a student could wisely participate only in a limited number of activities, I began observing the ones in which I imagined I was interested. I attended several of an organization's meetings before determining my interest in it. Where there were two or more organizations of the same nature, I attended a minimum of three meetings of each before deciding upon the one, if either, I wanted, to join. Although this process has not x been com-; pleted. I have determined a couple of organizations in which I wished to participate. One ofc these was the Student Party. Although members of both parties asked my in tentions when I visited them, I chose SP on the basis of its service to the campus. I felt that both parties were checks on the other's legislation. However, . I observed that the Student Party appeared to introduce the majority of the bills and I therefore became a member of it, since I could then have the chance to help determine the legislation's contents before it reached the Legislature, where it would be fully evaluated. :- - IJpon joining the' Party, I did not expect a chance to participate actively in its program the first several ysemesters. Therefore my selection to replace a re signed legislator came as a surprise. Likewise were my election to the Advisory Board of the party and my appointment as program Chairman. I soon rea- lized that too few udents were active in student government and that too many students thought that government wag strictly political folly. All is not wrong with the student government. It is a freedom that every student is responsible for pre serving. We can do this only by cultivating the right opinion. To have opinions concerning the student government, we must know the factj, which can be obtained accurately only through personal associa tion. ' A freshman can give student government the new blood it needs and can help it set its sights higher. A freshman who anticipates service of any nature in student government should begin now to learn of it operations, rather that waiting until his junior or senior year. In the fall election, the Student Party ran Martha Poindexter, Larkin Kirkman, myself, and John Howes for the Student Legislature. Two of these, Martha and Larkin, won seats in their respective districts. e .In the race for freshman class officers, Tom Long and Don Furtado were SP winners. The Student Tarty feels that iU- freshman candidates were quite capable of holding the positions. It is its desire to have more freshman candidates on their spring slate than they were able to run in the fall. .It; welcomes visits of freshmen to Monday- evening meetings. ' ;!j'v"- Activity in a campus party affords a student a vital part of his education of government and .its ': adminiiftivttion. His experiences will make him aware of whatjto expect from government when he makes his home .outside in our turmoiled world. As a result jof my legislative experiences,' I have become interested in the election laws and their revision. After thinking through several suggested changes, I met with Elections Board Chairman Bill McLean and discussed the revisions. Here I found situations that I had not known existed and would not have known had I not voiced my interest in participating in the. revision sessions. I found that even after 10 years of organized student government in the present form' we still have kinds to be ironed out by -you if they are ever to be corrected. To Co ; this, you must have direct party connections since through them you run your government. You should present ideas before your party if you desire to serve your school, not in a "Reader's Retort" where someone else must conclude the action you desire and must originate a remedy that you probably have already found, and may result in misinterpretation of your intentions. The campus parlies have too few students, con sidering that they voice policies that represent 10 per cent of the students. At some past time, stu dents have concluded that parties are for career politicians only. This is not only false, but it: is disastrous. A democratic government consists of doctors, lawyers, beggermen, chiefs, etc What we need on our campus is not a "Committee for Better Student Government" for the parties are just that. We need more students participating I in the campus parties and other student government associations. Our election results show that ap proximately 55 per cent of our student body votes, while several of our neighboring schools, with gov ernments we consider inferior, have votes of 95 per cent and 97 per cent. If this sounds remarkable, remember: if you vote, you are heping this student body to become more, representative. Do you know what was done this week concerning entrance requirements? Do you know the functions of NSA on this campus? Do you know your le gislators? You say you don't care; you should. These questions and mafcy more are answered at those meetings which you have in the past con . sidered folly and for politicians only. You are perhaps more inclined to think student government is folly after what it has just , been through. Don't! Thouht2 in this direction will only: make matters worse in the future. . 'c Reperesent yourself in the" students' parties now, and express your views and suggestions. Start visiting the parties next week, and become a 'member of one in time to participate in choosing next year's administration. If you act now, there will be les dissatisfaction next year. , . tic, editor,, or Dpoi Durnjng. n; Jimsnie Proctdr DaVidson (Davidson student Proctor, we are proudto say, will still find a maximum '-gJ ' liberal opinion and freedom in Chapel' Hill. As for extremes, we have few. ' ( Like any other dynamic acai demic community, &iapeV H i 1 1 v ties many students with? many varying- opinions?zJtistt because senneifew students felt that dis agreement icith editorial policy wurranted a recall doesn't mean all free thinking lias been purg ed. t (On the contrary, the. majority of students voted decided that even though they might not al ways agree with the editors tliey still had the right to ex press any opinion. We hope Davidsonian Proc tor will join us here, for Clvapel Hill is still "famous for its lib eral and free expression." Ed itors) ; f . OPPOSITION i i i Indeed there is already considerable uni: opposition to Nixon for the second plate.: position is partly on personal grounds. II ; rives partly from the conviction that Nx has aptedas a sort of political lightning :.' ih$ Administration, wQuld be a drag ca t Already President Eisenhower has been r urged to drop Nixon and replace him with I 11 Jtiet president runs again. s trn,e .urger ft6ers, barike 1 and ! golf -playing friend ' Presidents. Roberts is (or was until a very milaeart 'attack) a part-time member 0! ! ,canedJ,Conodpre...R cal strategists. I 'Roberts had a lengthy repbrt cm Herter; f icatiqns prepared, undoubtedly' ifh the k: of other members of the regency. On the ! this report Roberts tried to persuade the F: that Herter was better qualified for seccc than Nixon. The President was non-corrx for about a week, according to those who know, he thought about the matter seriou?:;- Southern Thought sV In recent months there has v been- a unusually large number of self-appointed spokesmen for the South. Governor Timmerman of South Carolina, for instance, -made a statement saying, "the . South" will do so-and-so, or will not do so-and-so. Senator Eastland of Mississippi will go on a na tionwide television program and declare that "the South" will take such-and-such a position. And, so on and so the list grows daily. So I think it is time somebody took the trouble to point out that neither Eastland nor someone on the other extreme speak for "the ? South." There is no Southern spokesman, and there cannot be, -."for there is no such thing as "the . Southern viewpoint." Opinions and views are as varied in the Southern region as-in- any other region of the country. "And that " goes .for just about any subject on which opinion could be formed- ' . -V v. We do not hear" of a Senator or a Governor saying- he speaks for "the Midwest;" or the West ""Coast, or New England. Yet there's hardly a day passes that some such official does not come forth in full voice as the spokes man for the South. But there is no such person. The rest of the country should know that. And we in the South ought to know it, too. Sam Ra gan, Raleigh News & Observer. DISMISSED f Again according to those who should k: : idea of replacing Nixon with Herter haste: firmly dismissed, although, of coarse, it t revived again if the President decides to r. idea was : .'dismissed partly because the F" genuinely admires the Vice-Presidnt 'd bcause of the damaging political imphca'.:. a major argument was also used cffec'uvej . on's friends against Herter that fact thai j was born in Paris. j t 'iferter's Paris birth is, indeed, the fc5!;' obstacle to a Herter candidacy. Since he ffisfnrprf at f Vir A morican nnsilIatC, filOSt agree that" Herter is "natural born. " as -stitution requires. But as long as the mains unsettled, a cloud of doubt tnll. the Herter candidacy. The doubt can on! :' dissipated by the Supreme Court. j All sorts of ways of getting the Supr to make a ruling well before the Repubhca: tion have been considered. The most cedent cited is, oddly enough, that of fie aivc raiiy, wnicn gOl a auic""- 1948 on Henry Wallace's elgibillty to S linois ballot within three weeks of rcw decission. BIRTH -r-rt j. ... ... . 1 .iL vnh!PT, ine tarr hat rn Pan tirin uiv"'- being considered so carefully sugSts ': the Herter candidacy is or hew ser ; become, if the President withdraws. H-- have been promised powerful financial zational ""backing in New York. M3-'-, elsewhere. Herter has announced that run again for Governor, which removes cation. And hp hac a significantly ljM snieume me invitation is . at Washington's National Press Club In teresting heading "IF IKE STEPS OUT. -STEP IN." Even "If Ike steps out," Herter ha-. long way to go. He is little known n3' Massachusetts ic lAnwr the conven't"" off place for the Presidency it cnce ' , .. rfitinnal onH Imrlnn) oKnnt uith obt2C' the Herter candidacy is interest"?. ) is so ha-d to think of anyone t -"e cn Eisenhower forces could agree.
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