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fAGE TWO THB DAILY TAR HS1L Political Propaganda: Nothing But Hogwash r.lrctioii time in (.li.tK"l Hill is inoic contusing than t ! i c p.inic stilus in I tnrst 1 li'ininnay's ' A l.n twill To Anns."' Siwldcnh . taiitlid.itcs luiuinc: puMititv vay and their anxiety is fin thci ' .u lamented ly the v tal!i(l uestii)H answer forums uhiih various groups on the cam pus must tondiut dining the cum pa i '41 i. ' I he Duilx Idr llccl, more than any other roup or institution on the TNT. campus, feels the lull In tint of this helter-skelter activity s Flit 1 1 1 ! 1.1 1 ,k t ci ist i( a 1 1 v desciihes elei lions in Chapel Hill. lot instance, of a total news inches on pacs one and three in the Tar Heel on Tues day, appioximatcly 112 inches erc deoted eclusielv to ma terial imolvin the upcoming e!ec 1 ions alout -,o per cent ol our total lie w s sp.ic e. I he limine would he unit h higher it we discounted pit tines. iimcI on hoth paes and the spate ottupicd loi heads' Axhich pre cede all stoiies. Suieh. the amount occupied hv cainpaii;n and elec tion mitcii.il then woiilcl he well ovci no per cent. male as hih a 70 per c ut. e point ihis out not because the Tar Heel plans to refuse cam paign piopa'4and.i hetween now and piil 1. hut to show that, by .ud lare. 0111 aspiiin candidates aie now hasienin to exert in a week's time a hoped-for respect for themselves which a car has been unable to pi odue c. 1 hat is the traced in elections at the ( 'Diversity of North Caro-lina-the fat 1 that student candi dates seemingly relv on a period of one 01 two weeks in which to pre sent themselves l.uorablv to a student boeU which should have been formiii;.; opinions tluouhout the c.it. ' GUEST EDITORIAL It would, indeed, be better if, when election time rolled around, our political aspirants could rest on their records of a enrs service to the student body a period in which re?,pect for the politicians could be moulding instead of re 1 iiivr almost solelv on the cam jiaiin pit)pa.atida which they hae printed in the Tar Heel. We have not witnessed such ex tensive, free political advertise ment aiid that's all it is in any of the numerous other college news papers which find their wav into our offices. Nor do we see this mad inllux of campaign material into other papers in our Mate and na tion. lint when election time rolls mound at IWC, if this campaign propnncla can be used as any yardstick, it appears almost as if scores of unknowns thrust them selves onto the political scene with hopes that Tlir Daily Tar Hcrl will lead the blind to the ballot boxes and. particularly, that the blind, once there, will know which w? to otc. We do not resent this purpose whith we aie supposed to be serv ing. lut we do resent the implica tions of it that without The Daily Tar Hcrl no candidate in a politi cal campaign would have a pi aver a? i nst his moie public itv-t raed opponent. If our political aspirants cannot win without Tin' Daily Tar Ilfcl. they do not deserve to win. If thev have not gotten acioss to the stu dent body in a year's time what thev attempt to tram into a pe riod ol 14 tbs. they'ie not worth a majority vote. In a word, if it takes endless shouting in a campus newspaper in place of proven leadership and longstanding lespect to win a political election, there's hardlv a candidate at l!'C descrying of the oil ice whith he seeks. Lay The Soul Bare I icli passing clav and week a distiessin note- 1 in-s louder around the 11. lion. This note comes not lioin .inv single internal distuib ance. it has arisen liom the nation as a whole and ullects back to the nation as a w hole. What is the note? A fact readily aicetl on in any rational circle is thai the two aimed camps in the wot Id aie 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 -4 a rate for su piemacv lleiein is the disturbing lac tor. the taee is not beinc; run on dillcunt paths, it is bein run u the same one. The evil is not in the running, it is in the way of 1 1111111114. Communism infiltiaies free (oimtiies. Russia sends up a satel lite; demociatic revolution ends a dictatorship, and the Tinted Slates st uds up a satellite. And so the 1 at e noes. Communism and. Russia' use pro paganda, thev spread stoiies about the evils of capitalists and capital ism. Thev jjuaid their .sends caic luliv. make plans lor new weapons, new tactics, and new lcvolutions. Democ iat. and Americ a use pro paanda. spuad stories about the cvik nl (ommunists and (ommu nisin. The Pentagon selec ts its puss lelcascs with ca-te, holds back in humation about new weapons and lac lies, while the state department keeps our lorei'n policy enclosed in the midst oF a dark cloud. Kiusthev chinks, smiles, kisses habits, and shakes hands. Fisen howcr plas Rolf, smiles, and shakes hands. The people in Russia are ignor ant of their government and its plans; they are told what to do and thev follow blindly, under threat of physical ostracism. The people in the United States are ignorant of their government The Daily Tar Heel The official jtUvlent pubh'car.on 'A tb publication Board of the University of No. Ib Carolina, where if is published daily except Monday and exam tn.tion and vacation period? and sum mer terms. Entered as second class nil ter In the post office In Cbapel klili. N. C, under the Act of March 8. 1870 Subscription rates: mailed. $4 Jr year, $2.50 1 semester; delivered, W 7"r' 3.50 1 icmfstcf. and its-plans. They are not tohl what to do.. yet thev follow blind ly, under threat ol social ostracism, jvhieh lollows liom compi le em y and conformity. The government does not crv out. and the people do not civ out: the only follow, and follow aloiv the same path as their en emies. Can it be that the blind are lead ing the blind? Is not democracy fihtin fire with fire, and becom ing enveloped in it? With com placency, cotifoimity ;vnd ignor ance ruling the people, and bure au cracy ruling the government, is not America absoibint; that which it believes it fights? The onlv an swer is "yes." The question now arises if lire cannot be fought with lire, how must it be clone? The answer lies in the opposite. Cold destroys heat, and democ rat v ran destroy com munism. Hut wait. America is a democracy. Hut no. It is no longer a democlTicy. What then is a de mocracy? Communism lelies on or is founded on stric tness, or adherence to the set order. Democracy must then rely, or must be founded on. looseness, on freedom. What loose ness and .what freedom? No propa ganda1, complete revelation of plans and actions, and above all. new ideas. This is democracy and this is the way to filit commun ism. New and plentiful ideas and new and plentiful actions from the ideas is the answer. And these must be laid open, exposed. Un bounded democracy can beat bounded communism. , In short, the nation must lay bare its soul. If ideas and complete revelation of these ideas are the answer, the path on the other side of the fence, from where will these ideas come. The answer to this is education. What kind of education? Not the narrow and limited education of the Communist kind, of science, and science, and scicnte. Hut edu cation with science, and philoso phy, and art, and religion, and history, and languages. The soul of . the nation is in its education, and, when that is laid bare, then the soul is laid bare. The Cavalier WISE & OTHERWISE Election Time For Russians: Nobody Loses By WHIT WHITFIELD On the inside pages it passed unnoticed, but it was there nev-' ertheless. We're speaking of the Soviet election returns of last week. The local political factions might do well to investigate some of their methods, for it seems that they have devised a method whereby the candidates do not have to campaign. There is no wasted effort and no defeated candidates are frustrated. Communist leaders nominated 1,378 candidates for 1,378 seats and 1.378 pieces of red machinery were "elected." This must be an indication of the excellent admin istration the Kremlin is offering this year. What else? No one can say that Soviet Russia is not democratic, for 133 million voters or 99.97 percent of those eligible cast their bal lots after due consideration. The fact that .03 percent did not vote at all would seem to some western observers an indication of civil strife and unrest in the Soviet Union. Xyet! says the Kremlin. The same opinion was voiced by Sergei Strigan'ov of the Soviet Embassy who was visiting in Chapel Hill at the time. His com ment was, "the Party is doing well." He felt it unwise to com ment further. (N'ote: Soviet ingenuity is in credible. A icthcr time-saver for the electorate: Printed ballots which merely have ' to be folded and placed in the ballot box. (saves money on marking pencils too.) ' While we're em the subject of Russian ingenuity it might be in teresting to note that the Satel lite race is - tied at two apiece now. The question which natural ly, arises is what are the Russians up to now? Although we can claim no au thority in the matter, we submit that the Roosians are not sleep ing, and that they have, some thing up their sleeves to stun the world. Since the alleged ex perts in such matters variously disagree as to what it is. we would hasten to conjecture that maybe they'll use a real satel lite next time. The quesfion is. who goes firstPoland or China? Or maybe they'll send Egypt to the Moon. Some one brought to our at tention that one of our columns was reprinted in the Greensboro Daily News last Thursday. We were pleased but quizzical, so we called Mr. II. W. Kendall of the N'ows to inquire the reason. He informed us that circulation was" off somewhat, so that it didn't make any difference. We thanked him and hung up. We'll still not quite sure what he meant. .01 . :: - "If Yoji Get It, Remember I Mentioned' It".' t,1i fl" 'V -(4-ekblock: LETTERS TO EDITOR Letters On Lenoir, Middle East To The Editor In view of Mr. Hamad's "unsel fish, truthful, and realistic" view point, which appeared in The Daily Tar Heel on March 21, I would like to present several facts. Mr. Hamad speaks about the negligence of the West to ward Jordan. In his article he neglected to say that his artific ially created country of Jordan, which until after World War II had not even existed, was brought into being by Britain, one of the Western countries against, whom the Arab world is presently at odds, as a gift to the late King Abdullah. I might. also add that Jordan was maintained by the British at a rate of $33 million per annum until the autumn of 1956. General John Baggot Glubn, an Englishman, founded and di rected the Arab Legion, whjch was supposed to have been the best army in the' Middle East. The gratitude that General GluMuro ceived for this was to b; dis missed by the Jordanian after many years df service in that country. If Mr. Hamad will recall the events of the autumn of 1956. he will remember that it was largely through the efforts of the United States, .who broke 'with ' her long-standing allies, that Nas ser's neck was saved during the time that Egypt was under at tack. Also, as I am sure Mr. Hamad will recall, the Tjnited Slates, by sending her Sixth Fleet to the Mediterranean, played a large part in preserving the in dependence of Jordan las, spring. Since then the United States has been more than generous with aid and weapons to the Jordan ians. Concerning the poverty which Mr. Hamad spoaks of in Jordan, one would think that a king of a certain Arab country who re ceives unlimited wealth and still permits slavery in his country would help his brethren instead cf spending, his money to main tain huge harems and to give away Cadillacs foi gifts. Also un til 1936 King Hussein of Jordan ran all over his country in sports cars and planes, letting the Brit ish run his country instead of givirg his money to his poverty stricken sub.-'ects. Perhaps Mr. Hamad should re consider his viewpoint before criticizing the country whose hos pitality he is enjoying. ROBERT M. SCOTT Tax On Script To The Editor: I had occasion to spend some time in Chapel Hill this past Sat urday and noticed two letters to the editor which concerned them selves with an income tax ques tion. I believe it involved stu dents working at Lenoir Hall whose letters to you seemed to imply that no income" tax liabili ty were incurred if meal tickets, rather than cash, were used to remunerate services rendered. Perhaps there is a ruling to that effect by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with which I am not familiar and which would dispose of this question. Normally speaking, however, there is little difference as to tax liability hetween cash and script payments". Both of them are fully taxable to the employee. I feel, fairly, safe in stating that even if meats were furnished to employees at Lenoir Hall for services rendered without ad script being issued, the value of such meals would have to be re ported as taxable income. One provision of the Code deals with meals furnished for the employer's convenience. Perhaps a showing under this provision could lead to exempt status. How ever the facts contained in these letters would lead jne to believe otherwise. ' May I suggest that the students concerned request a clarification of this question through the of fice of Mr. James Williams at the University. His decision should be given considerable weight by all involved. I enjoy reading your fine pap er from time to time. PETER H. GERNS Charlotte, N. C. JIIJI I IIIIUIIIII II KllfU 7 !! v-V 's to z ui CL 1 f" " "' ' " "MH'IHfn II.HIIIIIi II l it c TH05E $TARSAPEAL0T FA(?THK AWV THAN THEY LOOK "If j J4 O w in JZ u 3 z THEY'RE o o o o. I rM p Aft-A-Aw so-' some&ody stuff a ) w, fTTX iwAutKAi N Jff "wju 1- v wMiTt.& aaouthv ) WYL:, rr V Ls MARRIED" TH1S WEDDlMG.'f V W. f I CAN T oO ON, HE'S S j&hYiA I , ! CKV1MG A2OUT? ) L - 1 v f&Y? A chaps 7 we Mg$& m&,Q,f. M CM'r ko zeepzer K yaa pou t . jnt vcv CQ$eezPiA") Apreev 7o&$kp ahv&ccv xpoeecifzryr. iicre &E3F V VgN etf TOTHgMOON NVMATW'g.-' V I"'?? , k G 7 MAMS tTf. P? Q. a U J3 a 2 , , WEDNESpAY, MARCH 26, 1953 . . . , THE sMlTHFIEiPEgAtP V ' r H r r RealismTruth Needed: They Finally Said It U. S. business has been aware of the economic slump for months, but public use of the words ?'slump" or "recession" has been taboo until now. Business writers have been hesitant about calling the slump what it is, as a bather unaccustomed to the surf is hesitant about getting into a cold ocean. 4- Ilere's the way the gradualists among business writers let us in on the bad (or should we say "un welcome"?) news: .September 15 "The mood among businessmen who look to next, year is one of caution. Now no body is alarmed. Some of the economic signs are just uncertain." . October 15 "Business is in a leveling-off per iod. We are 'not having a recession, as seme say.' November 1 "Eisenhower's economic advisers are not convinced of a downward business trend. They only note some weaknesses as well as strong factors in the economy. This is an adjustment, not a recession." November 15 "Business is slightly oif. No bust. No recession. It's just that there is nothing in the offing to lift the level of business." December 1 "Business leaders agree that we are in for some decline in business. Whether the decline will last six months or 12 months is not certain. But this is still not a recession." January 1 "The business decline will likely' con tinue for at least six months. It's to be worse than any decline since before World War II. But no de pression. Hardly 'a recession." : January 25 "The slump is the real -McCoy. It's not a bad recession. But the boom is over. And the news will get worse before it gets better. Prepare for the shock." The business writers, at long last, reluctantly, have given us the ugly facts of economic life, and their version of the facts runs a bit contrary to the somewhat rosy estimate of the economic situation promulgated the other day by President Eisen hower. Well, what the country ought to have is the truth. Neither false pessimism nor false optimism will serve' us. Realism should be a strong ally in warding off any threat of real depression. UCLA DAILY BRUIN Insurance For The Day After Tomorrow The day was tomorrow when an atomic bomb fell on my house. I heard the noise and came run ning home from the supermarket two blocks away, where I was buying some milk. Only my house was destroyed nothing else -Hust a big crater remained. Well, I got kind of ex cited about the whole thing, ran around screaming and such, but there was nothing to get upset about. Nobody was in the house when the thing dropped on it. So I relaxed. Didn't even think of all my possessions lost, or why the bomb didn't destroy the city. A huge jet bomber flew around overhead, cruis ing and circling, waggling its wings once in awhile. That inanimate object looked nervous, and well it might, because one of the neighbors said that it had dropped the bomb, which was disarmed so that only the TNT went off. "Only the TNT!", I said. "Well 1 guess that puts a different light on things!" I suppose I wes a little angry at the Air Force. Things happened fast after that. I stayed at my aunt's place that night and took a few phone calls. One call came all the way from Washington and I spoke to the President. He said he was sorry it happened. I thanked him. He was very kind about the whole thing and offered to pay the damages. I graciously said no, ycu don't have to pay, I'll charge the government. Well, I got a few thousand letters and telegrams, too, and my name was in all the papers. People I had forgotten 'about wrote that they were glad I was safe. Some wrote that they were sorry I was safe. I forgot about THOSE people again. With all the attention I was getting (some guy in Texas offered to replace everything I had lost). I didn't have much time to really think deeply about what had happened to me, or why it had happened. No, as a matter' of fact, I once thought that the Lord sent me to the Supermarket that day. But that was all. Then I got to thinking about it, about whether those planes should be flying around up there like that. And in spite of all . the trouble the accident caused me, I figured that maybe this A-bomb-carrying is a good thing, after all. Because maybe some day a bomb will drop and destroy not a house, but a whole city and it won't be dropped by OUR Air Force. I want to be sure they don't get away with it. And as long as only the TNT went off, and this ac cident business doesn't hurt anyone or happen very often, I figure that insurance up there is worth all the trouble, UCLA Daily Bruin . . ' - -: : 1
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