PAGE TWO
THE TAR HEEL
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1945
The Ram Sees . .
HENDREN ON THE JOB
Miss Connie Hendren, the attractive new editor of the Caro
lina Magazine, is whipping together her first issue even while
the March ( ?) issue is warming the presses. Miss Hendren has
been having staff meetings and seems to be laying a good foun
dation for a better Mag.
The new editor, however, like many previous editors, is suf
fering from lack of good copy. Anyone who can push a pen Jr
pound a typewriter is requested to bring their product up to the
second floor of Graham Memorial. The deadline has been set
for this Tuesday take your stuff around and perhaps it will
be thrown into the Mag!
M
AY IT BE
HATS OFF TO THE GRAIL
Stating the least, the Order of the Grail's "KEEP OFF THE
GRASS I" campaign has become quite a novelty on the cam
pus. It's good to see that an organization on the campus has
s some fiery life in it. ,
We had planned to print the names of offenders on the front
page of the Tar Heel, but when Dr. Graham and the Grail en- '
tered the campaign, we hoped that further publicizing of the
offenders would not be necessary. It has been reported, however,
tHat there are still those who refuse to help their President and
student leaders keepXarolina beautiful. If the grass continues
to be trampled underfoot, we feel that the student body, has a
right to know the names of those who think that they have no
responsibility to keep Carolina's grass beautiful.
GRASS AND POETRY
The manner in which the Grail used a public address system in
the top of South Building to remind students and faculty to pro
tect the grass caused quite a bit of comment which found its
way to the office of the editor. We think that this is about the
best we received :
This is the forest primeval,
The herbage outweighs mere mankind.
For each little sprig of Poaceae
Homo sap to walks is confined.
Out from the clouds of the Holy
The VOICE with a-deep lordly sneer
The Great White Pa humbles his children
For treading the turf he holds dear.
Ridicule withers the wayward
Who wander with wanton delight
On dirt that's verboten to mortals
For it is with' verdure bedigjit.
Speed not to knowledge by short-cuts,
For tarheels are fatal to grass.
If tardy, gust tell your professor
? "Here, grass always comes before class."
Evangeline Courtcoupant
Vermisseaux, Louisiana
GRASS AND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS
We've been misinterpreted again, but perhaps by a person with
good intentions. The Tar Heel, in attempting to show that there
might be two sides to the question, suggested that perhaps some
students thought they had a right to walk on the grass. Never
theless, the following letter carries some good sense.
"The Editor of Tar Heel
Dear Sir:
. "I am taking this means of questioning a sentence in your
editorial on keeping off the grass. The sentence states that
'many students may logically defend walking on the grass of
this campus as one of the rights which must of necessity be en
joyed in a liberal university.'
"How can anyone have 'rights' to walk on grass that does not
belong to him personally? The sod and grass belong to the Uni
versity Perhaps you may impute by that that it belongs to the
taxpayers or citizens of North Carolina. If that is so then the
'right' to walk on their grass must come from the agreement of
the majority of the citizens of North Carolina. Democracy, I
always thought, was based on the proposition that the voice of
the majority was the rule of the land. The minority has the
'duty' to obey the decisions of the majority, just as we all do.
. "By 'rights' is not meant doing only what you want with total
disregard of what others want. That is license. I wonder if
those who defend liberalism so strongly don't sometimes forget
there is a difference between liberty and license? The under
lying principle of government, student or otherwise, is the great
est good for the greatest number. As an out-state member of
the student body . I also walked on the grass. There were no
'keep off the grass' signs and I thought it was a matter of indif
ference to the people of North Carolina what was thought of
their campus. However I have been here long enough to have
the same pride in this university as in my own state university,
and I intend to walk on the paths. I wish, however, that for
the benefit of newcomers to the campus there were occasional
signs to keep off the grass as an indication that the student body
does have a pride in the impression the campus makes.
"If the majority of the students are willing to co-operate with
the administration's desires, then prohibitory regulations should
be placed on the minority. The administration has been dele
gated with power from the Legislature to make the rules that
affect the University. No student has a 'right' to walk on the
grass : he has the duty to obey regulations laid down by his own
representatives.
"Otherwise this would not be a democracy but anarchy. We
would not be upholding freedom, but condoning license.
G. L. B. Roberts."
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By The Way
By Bill Crisp
Last Sunday's conference on inter
national affairs was much more than
a success as a mere assembly of
Southern college students: it was,
undeniably, a victory for those who
look forward to the time when Sou
thern people, regardless of color,
may sit peaceably together and dis
cuss problems of mutual concern.
Seated in the conference, as quali
fied delegates from their respec
tive schools, were sixty-four stu
dents from over fifty universities
and colleges. Of these sixty-four
approximately one-fifth were Ne
groes. During the course of the
various debates on the floor, it
became more and more apparent
that these Negroes were just as in
telligent as their white colleagues,
Many of them demonstrated a re
markable foresight on the isues dis
cussed. Not the least of the actions taken
during and by this conference was
the election of two Negro boys to
responsible positions. The student
who will accompany Carolina's Doug
las Hunt to San Franscisco is a
Negro medical student from Me
harry Medical College. The presi
dent of the conference for the com
ing year is also a Negro.
What does this prove? About the '
equality or inequality of the races
it proves absolutely nothing. But it
does point a dramatic finger toward
a tendency which, thank God, is be
coming more and more prevalent
wherever and whenever intelligent
Southern people come ,together:
the traditionally bigoted belief of
the white , that his superiority
over the Negro is more than a
difference in skin pigmentation is
losing its force. There won't
be a decisive liberal change in racial
relations, anytime soon, but just a
little more enlightment is permeat
ing the Southland every year. Each
generation finds itself quite a bit
further along the road which even
tually will lead to a complete fullfil
ment of "equal rights for all, special
privileges to none."
Gradually the' cobwebs of the past
are being swept away. Two weeks
ago in Albany, New York, Thomas
Dewey signed a piece of legislation
which will undoubtedly set a pre
cedent for other states to follow.
Under this particular bill, the New
York State Legislature has set up a
Fair Employment Practices Com
SEE HERE
By Pvt.
Here at Carolina today we have
organizations like the IRC, CPU, Di
Senate, YMCA, YWCA, CRIL, and
the Southern Council on Interna
tional Relations all devoted to
stimulating interest in public af
fairs and striving to help bring
about a better world. Now to this
group there should be added a new
organization as yet unnamed; I
speak of the organization proposed
by the Conference of some Southern
Colleges meeting here last Sunday.
Since students will in the end be
called -upon to support this organi
zation we should spend a little time
analyzing its wrth. The writer of
fers the following questions to help
in this analysis :
1. What could this organization
do that the above named organiza
tions are not able to do? There are
chapters of the "Y", the IRC, and
the Southern Council . on Interna
tional Relations at almost all the
Colleges that were represented here
Sunday. Why the need for anoth
er intercollegiate organization?
2. What success have these organ-
mittee. The purpose of the commit
tee is to see that, in the hiring and
? firing of employees, management is
not motivated by racial bias.
In sharp contrast, Atlanta poli
ticians last week worked out a
scheme whereby they may get around
last summer's ruling by the Supreme
. Court that Negroes must be permit
ted to vote in Democratic and Re
publican primaries. In anticipation
of the approximately 5000 Negroes
who will try to vote in next fall's
city elections, Atlanta "democrats"
have merely dropped the word
Democrat from their primary bal
lot, thereby hoping to escape the
high court's ruling.
Thus, unfortunately, for many
years to come the deep-rooted prej-
udice which retards the progress of
the Southern people is destined to
continue its backward, undermining,
; v parasitic course. He who looks close
ly at the South's pathetic educational
facilities, and remembers that one
third of the Southern peopler the
Negroes contributed only one-sixteenth
of the revenues on which
those facilities are financially . de
pendent, cannot reconcile himself
to this detrimental state of affairs
And when he observes the feudal
; system of deep Dixie North Caro
; lina included and sees from one
. sixth to one-third of the land area
, in each state subjected to a vicious,
, inherent tenant system, he does not
. - hesitate to question the logic in the
judgment of a society which, by
See BY THE WAY, page U
Buddy Glenn Thanks
Conference Helpers
To the Student Body
and Townspeople:
' On behalf of the Arrangements
1 Committe of the C. of S. C, I wish
to thank all those who aided in
making last Sunday's Conference
possible. Without your generous
assistance,the Conference could not
have reached the heights that it
attained. The Conference was an
outstanding success, with delegates
representing every Southern state
from Virginia to Oklahoma.
This was due in a large measure
to the aid of the localffi people and
we express our appreciation.
Sincerely,
BUDDY GLENN.
Williams
: izations had in stimulating interest
and making the world a better place
' in which to live? Certainly little
has been done to better the world
around Chapel Hill as can be at
tested by taking a look at the hous
ing of some of the colored citizens
of Chapel Hill. Can this organiza
tion do better?
3. What purpose is there in send
ing two delegates to San Francisco
to justify taking up precious train
and hotel space and spending money
that could be used to help someone
get a college education or to buy
War Bonds? The backers of this
scheme admit that Mr. Hunt and Sgt.
Clifford can only help the students
rthey represent feel represented.
Won't we feel represented by the
delgation the late President chose
i to go to San Francisco?
Finally, is this organization an
other pressure group? The resolu
tions adopted Sunday gives the im
pression that it is. Does Carolina
want a pressure group DOES
CAROLINA WANT THIS ORGANIZATION???
BY AN
Ram looks through pages of lit
erature and finds a' phrase that
suits his nature: "Mud-luscious"
E. E. Cummings made it up. What
you will read here is neither fic
tion nor from the imagination of
this fellow who has been starved
lately because he has not been
grass-stomping.
v
Infallible way to distinguish be
tween the khaki trousers worn by
Marines and Rotices . . . "the
Leathernecks' boast a crease" (said
one Marine to another). '
Phi Delts are said to have spon
sored the sign reading: Today is
Bunny's birthday. Sweet sixteen
and . . .! Tut, Tut! PanniU, aren't
you a better man than that?
A summing-up of Dr. Frank's
address of the evening best ex
presses the spirit of the WGA in
stallation banquet: From this simple
candle-lighted ceremony is gained
a spiritual inspiration ... an in
spiration .of girls' catching the
torch of leadership and carrying it
gallantly forward.
Wielding the gavel at the Chi
Psi House is Ed Wiles while his
list of cohorts include Cliff Tuttle,
vice-president; Cary Dobbs, . secre- ,
tary; Hugh Miller, treasurer; and
Dale Evans, rush chairman.
Med students get broke, too.
This time in a big way ... even
to the extent, that they consider
sellin' their bodies. Jack Monroe
and Jim Oliver worked up Archer
House gals' sympathies so that a
bunch of pennies was collected by
the girls, neatly packed and sent
free of charge" to the two "des
perates." In return Mongoose and
Inside Carolina
By Pat Kelly
This is a column with a purpose.
There will probably be times when
the purpose gets lost in the shuffle
or the whole column misses the boat,
but nevertheless these lines of type
have but one idea to take each stu
dent Inside Carolina and' let him see
what the score is there. Feeling the
need for this in the Tar Heel, your
editor and this scribe got their heads
together, and, after the hollow sound
had died away, this column came
forth. Geronimo!
There are 3568 students on the
campus of the University of North
Carolina. Regardless of any pre
vious' statements to the contrary,
this, plus the following facts and
figures on Carolina enrollment, are
correct, the straight dope from
South building and V-12 headquar
ters. This is a drop in enrollment
of 275 from that of the winter term.
However, taking into consideration
the fact that 300 students have been
lost through graduation and the re
duction of the V-12 quota, Carolina
has in reality made a slight gain.
In the undergraduate school there
are 1169 students, while there are
464 graduate and professional stu
dents. Of these, 895 are women,
and 738 are subject to the draft.
At this point let's take time out
for a caution: don't let all these
figures get you groggy. They have
an important story to tell !
M
enagerie
By Linda
Take a peep in today's MEN
AGERIE MIRROR. The reflection
there is one of those few and far be
tween personalities known as "a
Tar Heel born as well as bred."
While he's currently making his
bed and lying in it, too, at St. An
thony Hall, he's always alled
Chapel Hill home every year of his
life. The reason ... his father, now
serving as a major in the War De
partment in Washington, has been
dishing out English knowledge at
the University for more than two
decades.
His brother Saints call him a
"regular guy." (Passing acquaint
ances consider him pompous, while
he believes himself a "droll soul")
Some of the Carolina pies in which
he has dabbled . . . Order of the
Grail, Dance Committee and Inter
fraternity Council. (He is Presi
dent of the latter.) Give-away-hint
to the WISE: Today's reflection
was on the Student Party slate in
that most recent "blood and thun
der" election. He is also the newly
chosen chairman of the steering
'committee of that renowned party.
(Side remark by Mister Jimmie
Wallace: "Hmmph!") A history ma
OLD GOAT
Jazzbo sent a note of great appre
ciation and bids to do a long list of
"extra" chores for continued wages.
Some of the chores included doing
personal laundry work and "ex
pert" mending of nylon stockings
. . . Reports are that their rooms
are already "decorated" with hang
ings of laundered bits.
To arouse curiosity: What Phi
Gam is about to break his pledge
because of the WOLVES among his
fraternity brothers? Do readers
remembering Duke week-end re
call how Jim Dillard received his
pseudonym "Bathtub?" That Bogey-man
has at last caught "the
word" . . . he's using his blankets '
for window-shades now that warm
weather is here. The Pilams good
neighbor policy came forth with a
gift from those across the way
a rabbit which they- have named
nobody knows exactly how or why
... Pofpik. The Betas want this
fifty-four-dollar question answered:
who stole the beverages complete
with tub, ice, crate from their side
porch last Sunday night? Excite
ment arose in Archer House when
"The Girls" received a telegram
from the Porthole signed "B. and
Cam" . . . the answer was delivered
in person by six of the Torchers
. . . i fine going-away party for
Cam Sanders who is on his way
into the Army. A knock on the head
for the wise coed . . . the Arbore
tum is strictly taboo after-seeing-hours
. . . cat-eyes must be owl
wise and "carry on elsewhere."
Mary Porter Shook sho' is a sucker
for punishment when it comes to
getting down stairs the easy way
See RAM SEES, page U.
The classes have, in the male box,
196 freshmen, 192 sophomores, 63
juniors, and 45 seniors. The fresh
man lassies number 44, the sopho
mores, 28, the juniors, 327, and the
seniors, 236. The reason for the
small number of freshmen and soph
omore girls is that the sweater sex
cannot enroll at Carolina until they
are juniors unless they live in Chap
el Hill or are pharmacy students.
The reason for the small number of
junior and seniors boys is well,
you know Uncle.
Going to the 655 military men, we
find 239 apprentice seamen, 165 Ma
rines, 240 ROTC's, and 11 ASTP
men.
. So these are Carolina's vital sta
tistics. To exercise student govern
ment over these people there are 29
in Woman's Government Associa
tion and 49 in the campus govern
ment. 'Working on publications there are
a total of approximately 79 students.
This is about three percent of those
eligible to work on publications, and
the Mag, the Yack, and the Tar
Heel are all under-staffed. Yet won
drous to hear is the hue and cry of
criticism from every side against
these publications.
This word-wielder has tried to
take each reader Inside Carolina
. by presenting an over-all picture of
the University. The next column
will go inside student government.
Mi
irror
Nobles
jor, he's in the school of liberal arts.
This is step one on the road to ful
filling his lifelong ambition . . . that
of being an architect by way of a
post-graduate degree, preferably at
Princeton.
To shift to a lighter vein, this once-upon-a-time
playboy (so he says)
does not believe in any entangling
alliances. Consequently, the only
strings attached are his secret pas
sions for Mochie Morton . .'. and
Ingrid Bergman, too.
Over a sirloin steak topped with
apple pie (no turnips, please) he
is able to forget his pet peeve, which,
though not very original, is a potent
mouthful of words . . . "the red tape
of educational institutions." His list
of aversions includes cats and Som
erset Maugham, while boogie-woogie,
in his estimation, plays second
fiddle to classical compositions.
It is difficult for him to call the
role of everything that will some
day constitute his collection of pleas
ant collegiate memories, but he
confesses that Harry's, with its as
sociations, will always head any list.
Quoting Mr. X, "With me, Harry's
is the world's number one oasis."
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