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THURSDAY, MAY C, 157 TH DAILY TAR HI EL PAGE TWO The President Speaks Yet Mutual Aid Suffers "(inxl defense is not cheap de fense." President Eisenhower told i he nation in a somewhat procrast inated coast-to-coast television and ladio broadcast Tuesday night. .The president issued his strong appeal in an effort to save his rec ord S7 1 .S billion budget which is currently undergoing congression al Nlashing. It is our' sincere hoje that the Augusta-minded chief executive hasn't waited Km) late. Assuredly the president "' present ed strong e idence to support pass age of almost ji billion dollars earmarked lor national defense: (1 ' Tighter planes which cost S;oo.cmo seven years ago now cost one and one half million dollars. (m Atomic energy costs four times as much a it did in i),o- President Eisenhower was also right in his assertion that the Unit States has always been miserably unprepared for its major Avars and police actions such as the Korean conflict. ' Rut we feel the freque'htly vacation ing thief executive should have more forcefully stressed his mutual se(urit (foreign aid) program and its tremendous imjM)rtance as a de terrent to the growth of interna tional Communism. The Senate's special committee studving the S . joo.ooO.000 pro gram has uiuoercd some import ant facts: (i) It tost approximately seven times as much to keep an American rifleman on the job as it does a comparable figure in allied coun tries. Thus we actually save money by helping to militarily equip our re liable allies in their fight against paraouic Communism. ( Approximately one - tenth of the mutual security program is de otcd to economic assistance. And it is an accepted fact that the hollow words of red-tainted ora tors strike with more permanent force on a hollow Asiatic or Euro pean stomach.- (3) Approximately seventy per cent of the dollars labeled "foreign aid' never escape the borders of the 'United States., 'Such dollars md el y pay for American goods and services. And not onh - Jdoes such'-financial assist ance mnvext nations so aided into markets for American industrial and agricultural surpluses, but some fioo.ooo jobs are attributed to these expenditures. Tt is evident that foreign aid. un der such terms, is as beneficial to the United States as it is to those countries aided immeasureably by it. In resume, the president should fight most vigorously and unrelent ingly for salvation of his. foreign (and domestic) aid "program. He should also fight for strengthening of the United States Information Agency. The USIA is, of course, nothing more than a propaganda agency. Iut there is nothing so valuable in a cold war, such as is currently being waged, as the force of prop aganda. Russia's ridiculous version of President Eisenhower's "Open Skies" inspection proposal empha sizes the necessity for combating communist propaganda. And the time is assuredly ripe now with Russia-satellite relations being what they are and internal shifts such as the de-Staliniation to oint to for effective exploita tion of propagandist ic tatties. It is our mot sincere hope that Ailing Eisenhower hasn't waited too late to save his mutual security and USIA proposal. Foreign aid means assistance to Americans. BSU Covers For Gutl Student Legislative Action The University liaptist Student Union Executive Council has walk ed wheie the Student Legislature feared to tread. The lgislature allowed the Eong Resolution (ensuring application of state parks policy which denied a University student. Eeroy Fras ier. entrance to Umstead State Park purely because he is a Negro to die in committee. The 1SU Executive Council, on 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 injChapel Hill, Nl C, under the Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semes ter: delivered $6 a year, $3.50 a semes ter. ' " s Editor NEIL BASS Managing Editor BOB HIGH Associate Editor NANCY HILL Sports Editor BILL KING Ncwj Editor .. WALT SCHRUNTEK . Business Manager JOHN C. WHI1AKER Advertising Manager . FRED KATZIN NEWS STAFF Jraaam Snyder, Edith MacKinnon, Ben Taylor, Patsy Miller, Sue Atchison. Manley Springs. r EDIT STAFF Whit Whitfield, Anthony Wolff, Stan Shaw. BUSINESS STAFF-ohn Minter, Mari an Hobeck, Jane ratten, Bucky Shu-ford. SPORTS STAFF: Dave Wible, Stu Bird, Ed Rowland, Jim Crownover, Ron , Milligan. Subscription Manager Dale Staley Circulatioa manager Charlie Holt Staff Photographers Woody Sears, Norman Kantor, Bill King. Librarians Sue Gicbner, Marilyn Strum Night News Editor Night Editor Bob High Woody Seari the other hand, has admirably passed a resolution which requests that: I "... the North Carolina State Legislature act to open all state park facilities to all citizens of the state." Copies of the resolution are be inj; forwarded to the state (ieneral Assembly. The Daily Tar Heel wholeheart edly endorses the BSU resolution. It is indeed encouraging to see that one student organization doesn't feel as the Student Legis lature did that anything but blind adherence to prejudicial state laws would be 'biting the hand that feeds us.;' Excellence: Two Congrats The Daily Tar Heel extends its most hearty congratulations to Del ta Kappa Fpsilon Fraternity upon its recipience of the R. B. House Award. The Dekes have demonstrated, as their selection as the outstand ing fraternity on campus attests, a laudable willingness to participate in the extra-curricular life of the University and, at the same time, outstanding scholastic prowess. It is fitting that stub excellence should be rewarded by presenta tion of a trophy bearing the name of one who has given so unselfishly to the University for so many years retiring Chancellor Robert Burton House. All fraternities should attempt to emulate the Deke's spirit of par ticipation and excellence. And the entire University should pay tribute to a devoted servant: Chancellor Bob House. WISE AND OTHERWISE; Campus Stores: Lay Your Prices Down, Babe! Whit Whitfield . A perennial source of-concern in Student Government is the profits of the campus stores and fx- v - v where v. they go. " 'The profits ' i have been an- - v " ' jnounced as I ; ? about $40,000 , for last year, V - - ' "t - - most of which , f . , ; v will go towards self-help schol i " . 1 farships; . x. 14 Some people are not satisfied with this an swer, however; and these are the ones who also wonder why the prices are so high. Ours is not to question the whys and wherefores, but to blindly ac cept statements of the powers-that-be. What is wrong with paying thirty-six or forty-two cents for a small notebook that you can get for about half the price else-, where? Nothing, I submit at least you get a big "UNC" on the cover which tells other peo ple in your classes what school you go to. And that IS nice. Looseleaf. paper, legal paper, and memo pads are all economi cally priced. (In the downtown stores). . The big gripe is the textbook prices however. The usual rule is to give a student about half of what he paid for the books only fourth months previously, knowing that the book will be in use. the next semester. Then the price is placed at about half again what the first student was paid. After a few days the book is sold to an unsuspecting stu dent who has paid possibly two dollars rent on the space the book took up on the shelf. The question is. who. got gyped, th first or second student? Tiiey do offer values however, for budget-minded students. For instance, water-soaked (not water-marked) looseleaf pads are on sale now for very reasonable prices. They were left out in the rain obviously, and would " not sell for the original price. In point of fact they couldn't be given away, but the campus stores are selling them for half price. It ssems that someone is always ready to sacrifice for the students. ' Another cause for concern is the demand for some of the prof its from the vending machines in the dormitories. This' is ridicu lous. After all why should they share the profits with students? Why should the campus stores be concerned with the students troubles? They have a business to operate, and a business can not show a profit by giving away money. Is this not true? k Ours is not to question why, but only accept the reports of the powers-that?be, and be thank ful that .we have the opportunity to buy those articles with "UNC" stamped on the front, or "Book Ex" inside the front cover. L'il Abner "How Par You Treat Americans The Way We Do?" GUEST EDITORIALS: Jp1 CONNECTICUT DAILY COURIER: The Battle Of Bermudas; Relaxing ' restrictions on . Ber-t mudas will be the subject of a bill which will be brought up in the Student Senate this Wednes day night. The bill will recom mend that the WSGC permit co eds to wear Bermuda shorts af ter 3 p.m. inside living units on weekdays. The bill is only a rec ommendation, however, as ' the Cnal decision is with the, WGC. It is' about time that this mat ter came up. As the bill's spon sor has claimed, a restriction on coeds such as this is medieval and absurd. Bermuda shorts are attractive, and they are socially acceptable.,. They are cool, easy to wear and waShj and they are practical. Judging from the num bers of girls that wear them on the one day a week Bermudas are permitted, they are quite popular. . Arguments used against tha wearing , of Bermudas in tha past have been - that they, are sloppy, look terrible on some girls and are in bad taste. To say that they look sloppy is possibly true in some cases, but in 'those same cases ' don't those "girls look sloppy" in regu lar, outfits too, There is nothing intrinsic in a pair of Bermudas that makes them look sloppy, it's the person wearing them, and that same person will make anything she is wearing look sloppy. -Perhaps Bermudas look casual, but this is no justifica-. tion for saying flatly that no girl may wear them any day but Saturday without a raincoat , ov er them. Tha second argument, that "from an aesthetic standpoint some coeds just look terrible in Bermudas certainly may be true. But it is also true about al most any piece of clothing ever worn, from sabre-toothed tiger skins up to the present day. Some girls look terrible in , sweaters but does this justify outlawing them for all girls six days a week? Some girls look terrible in modern bathing suits, but does this justify passing legisla tion against them? Don't most girls have enough, sense to shy away from clouhes they look terrible in? If they don't, they wouldn't spend half as much time in front of mirrors, and ' they wouldn't spend half as much money, on the latest fashion mag azines as; they do, , in r order to look their best. The t third, argument tha Bermudas are in poor, social taste is ridiculous.' The only comment necessary to make about this claim is that if it is true someone had bettei pass the word to style-conscious magazines such as Vogue and Seventeen, and to supposedly re spectable schools such as Vassar and Smith. . Undoubtedly some student sen ators and -WS5C members will come up with some equally in valid arguments against permit ting Bermudas, even in the lim ited sense that this bill recom mends them. There have been criticisms In the past that neither of these organizations represent the students. Let's not let it hap pen on this issue. By AS Cpp LIZARD OF OOZE MQ'.FAKEIT This newspaper'. f . " ' ' ' - doiibting the vild rumors - rP&Z&' ' (spre&t 31 stories in tJztsr rrSii;f netvs-jDiSjDer) t-hat an enor- 1 I vnr I -s mous.uzard-liKe creature - 1' J XvV was actually seen emerg- ! ' y . v ino from the ooze of - 1 s " LaKe Eerie, sent its ece Jl ",VsNlw photographer after A - "OvW 7 proof. '' a f ' " V ' mNL With reluctance. GWITvsVE distaste and. horror. g-1 ,,,-?r3tv we are now forced, to :'VfcisS2-,i admit the storu 13 true. o mmmmmmmmmmm'mmm Pogo p WE'VE FOUND PRINTS OF ENORMOUS FEET N THIS AREA. HAVE VOU SEEN A MONSTER AROOND? NO, SUH AN' ) WHILE WE IS ON TH SUBOECK O' ENORMOUS feet; hasvo' SEEN MAH CHILE.TNX AROUN'?- E.IN GONE-THREE, WEEKS. SEEMS LIKE HE WERE SWALLOWED Gy Walt Kelly A r LWeA&, THAT NOT , Ou2 MANP IT'S A -j f HOVgt HMMPH. V 1 -1 rZtfZ ( THE HOL&.t-.t CAN Hb& I 0snvs et-rfoeriwZ LgnmO 0 e too eTupiD 10 pinp ths ' A Prospectus e o Pub! icafions The Davidsonian: .Tailor made suits, interest-free loans, racin stables, "plush, Palm Springs homes, and lost union records are the symbols of a situation that ha jshoeked the American people in the past few months. . . , , We have seen Messers Beck, Brewster, and Ilof ia (the. teal stars of the show) parade before the .witness. jstand, "VVnile they did not say all that they misht-hav, their testimony brought to the public ;view the fact tha in the councils ci Bii Lcbor, too few men , hold too much power. At present, the 'AFlrCIO has a monopoly over 4he nation's labor unions.. This giant labor organiza tion can .-cripple ;the American economy on a few hour's notice. And the amazing fact is that the czars of Big Labor are protected by present federal laws. V., .: . - . . ' f -Yes, it is legally okay for. Big Labor to do exact ly wha't the, anti-trust laws say,' that Big Business cannot do, Moreover, the entangling hand of the federal., government has brought organized labor under its protective wing. ' " . ' Fortunately, the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 cor rected many of the injustices of the Wagner Ac t of .1935 whieh gave rise to Big Labor. Nevertheless, a large and powerful union organization still enjoys special and paternalistic government protection. j For so. long, the. pendulum has swung in favor of Big Labor. It appears that the reforming con science of the American people will demand that it now . swing the other way. In 1890, the Sherman Anti-Trust Law helped to put .Big Business in its proper perspective. Before jntich longer, there must be reform in the field of Big Labor. First, labor unions should be put under the anti trust laws. To our way of thinking, it is just as wrong for the unions to get together to paralyze America as it is for the manufacturers to combine to fix prices. Next the union high command should be de centralized by returning to the locals much of the control and power to call strikes. The power and right to strike should rest "closer to home." Finally, all of the states should adopt 'right to work" laws. The right not to join a union (or any other organization for that matter) is the perrora tive of every man. The power to force man to join a union (else lose his job) is tyranny. The Labor Movement in America h3s made great and noble strides in tne past few decades. Some of its achievements have been slow in coming and long needed. Nevertheless, the near absolute power that Big Labor commands today is both dangerous and unnecessary. It is up to the people through their State and federal officials to bring Big Labor into line with present, day concepts 'of democratic ideals about economic and . political liberty. It cannot be ex pected to reform itself any more than Big Business was able to reform, itself. The Daily Californian: Unless IFC and Panhellenic do something with it, the Executive committee resolution on discrim ination will mean nothing. The resolution outlines a new method of work ing against racial and religious discrimination in fraternities and sororities a "watchdog" committee which would require each of the Green louses to report annually on their progress toward the elim ination of discrimination. But the resolution is no more than a request u IFC and Panhellenic to set up this committee. Nothing more. It is not an order. There is no force o flaw behind this resolution, just as the Shaffer resolution was only a request to the University to take action on discrimination. In effect, the ASUC is asking fraternities and sororities to take the initiative in rooting out di criraination from their midst. - It has been said that the powerful national Pan hellenic association will not permit the local organi zation to join in the formation of the "watchdog" committee on this campus. The reason given, in a wire to the local Tan hellenic president from a national Panhellenic of ficer was that, since the ASUC has no connection with tie University's Panhellenic association, Pan hellenic could, not recognize any action taken by the Associated students. To say the least, it would be disappointing to see IFC and Panhellenic fail to assume their re sponsibility. Any legalistic objection to Panhellenic partici pation is easily refutable. The national Panhellenic officer tacitly assumed that Executive committee was trying to legislate this special committee into existence when she said Panhellenic should not recognize ASUC action, because the matter was not properly in ASUC "jur isdiction ..We repeat, there is no attempt to legis late against our fraternities and sororities. It was not only in the "iegal" jurisdiction of the ASUC to take a stand against discrimination, it was also in its moral jurisdiction to suggest a plan of action to the agencies which must in the end deal with the problem IFC and Panhellenic. Let's take the problem of discrimination from the realm of the legalistic, and put it in the realm of the moralistic, where it belongs. And when the moral question' is considered. IFC and Panhellenic can do nothing else but to act ca the Executive committee resolution. !
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