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Page Two THE TAB. HEEL TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1945 Wfyz Wat Zt OFFICIAL NEWSPAPEE OF THE PUBLICATIONS UNION SERVING CIVILIAN AND MILITARY STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL ROBERT MORRISON BANKS MEBANE . JAMES SANFOED IE WIN SMALLWOOD HOWARD MERRY BUDDY GLENN JACK LACKEY .; .. ... NINA GUARD Editor . Associate Editor .Managing Editor Sports Editor Associate Managing- Editor Assistant Editor . News Editor Desk Editor HAEEISON TENNEY Circulation Manager STAFF THIS ISSUE V NEWS STAFF: Jessie Gregory. Bill Komegay, Eleanor Craig-, Sam SamzoerLin, Jo Pugh, Gene W Skins, Eojr Thompson, Thelma Cohen, Donald French, Mel Kopelman, Bill Eyon, Bette Mel er, Jeepy Payne, Bettie Tfllitt, Tom Corpening, Bill Foess, Fred Gal ton, Harding Menzies, Eowena Willis. SPORTS STAFF: Frank M filer. Dick Seaver. Phones: Editor, F-3141; Managing Editor and Associate Editor, F-3146; Sports Editor, 9886; Business and Circulation Managers, 8641. . , Published Toes 7 and Saturday exeept during vacations and fT""'1", Staff meets every 8 on day and .Thursday night at -7:30 o'clock- Any stadent desiring staff positions should attend a staff meeting. - Deadlines Sunday and Thursday. Editorials are -written of approved by the Editor and reflect the official o pin ion of the Tar Heel. - Columns and letters may be submitted by anyone; the Editor reserves the right to edit this copy, but it does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Tar Heel Editorial, business, and circulation offices - or the second floor of Graham Memorial. Presses in the Orange Printsbop on Rosemary Street. Entered as second class matter at the post effice at Chapel E, X. C, under the act of March 8, 1879. fcp.ei'SPI-OT' I--"... THE INCEPTION OF AN ERA The world remembers a few periods of its history which in- cnmiMofl a tipw wtitr rrf litf T'nrlsiv i snrTi . "npriofi that men avv w 7 vv - will long remember tnere is no doubt about it. The period which contained both the first military use of atomic power and the close of man's greatest war can undoubt edly be of great human significance for many generations to come. Whether or not generations which have not yet been born will live in misery because of the consequences of this period or whether or not such generations will exist is a matter to be determined soon. . The keynote of World War II has been a hope for enduring peace a fear of repetition of the events following World War I. The masses of the people have labored, fought, and died under such slogans as "Let us not win the war only to lose the peace!" The peace is here today. The United Nations may make of it what they choose. However, let them remember that millions of their people died with the hope that wars would cease to ex ist. Let them remember that for almost six years they have con sidered winning the peace as of equal importance with winning the war. . ' 'T'-V . . . '' There will always be' war as long as sovereign states, exist as equals without international authority. Any international or ganization is better than none, and the more powerful the in ternational organization, the better chance it will have to main tain peace.' The charter adopted at San Francisco may, like the Constitution of the United States, become a binding agreement which will bring all the states of the world into an indivisible union. The people of the world will not be safeguarded from future destruction, however, merely by international agreements. The world must be so impressed with the facts of war and of what future wars will mean that no nation can ever again be led on the road to world conquest. The. United States can take the lead in bringing to the world the lull realization 01 wnat war really is. , In a sense, it is regrettable that Japan may be allowed to surrender with any conditions even if these conditions are only symbolic and not actual. A wholesale devastation "of the Japanese homeland with the new atomic bomb may do a great deal toward producing the world attitude which must exist if we are to have world peace. Fortunately, this world attitude can be produced in other ways. If you are young, and have a life to live, remember that you can perform no greater service to the human race than to help perpetuate the world attitude which demands and works for peace. The world of next year will be different from anything we could have expected last year. COUCH'S RESIGNATION SYMBOLIZES . BACKWARDNESS OF SOUTH W.' T. Couch, a past president of the American Association of University Presses and the Director of the University of North Carolina Press, has submitted his resignation in order to accept a 100 raise in salary as director of the press at the University of Chicago. ' Couch obviously loves Carolina. Here he was editor of the Carolina Magazine, member of the Golden Fleece, and in many other ways an outstanding student leader. His entire life has been tied up with publishing in Chapel Hill. When his superior talents began to capture national attention, Couch began to re ceive enticing offers from presses all over the nation. He loved Chapel Hill too much to leave her for a larger salary, for. the work which had become his very life was more important. However, an offer from the University of Chicago is too much for us to expect Couch to turn down. We can not hope to sup ply him with the opportunity to serve the reading world that will be offered him in the North. It is with deep humiliation that we should see Couch go. His leaving is only one in an infinite chain of events which emphati cally demonstrates the backwardness of the South. The forces which are forcing Couch to the University of Chi cago are the forces of Southern degeneracy. This degeneracy is best demonstrated by racial discrimination, antipathy for higher education, tenant poverty, and Southern conservatism. The leg islature of the state of North Carolina should hang its head in shame for failure to appropriate the necessary funds to keep men like Couch in North Carolina. Progress is centered around re search and education the keynote' of the universities. As long as the people of North Carolina send men to our legislature who can not see beyond the limits of their own community we shall continue to remain like the rest of the South the nation's center of poverty and misery. The University of North Caro lina has done much to build North Carolina into a state which can hold its own in the family of forty-eight. The men here on this campus who are responsible for the administration of the University have had to fight bloody battles for every step for ward that higher education in North Carolina has made. . No more clear-cut condemnation of the South than the case of Couch has come to our attention. Couch loved Carolina, and would be more than willing to stay, here if he could only beas sured that some hope lay ahead. However, an offer of a salary which is even more than that received by the president of the University of North Carolina was too much to refuse. North Carolina now has a surplus. If our state ever hopes to lead the way out of the intellectual and economic abyss of the South, she must at least make her state university capable of competing with the universities of the North. The worth of any college or university is measured in terms of its faculty. To those of us who are fortunate enough to have had an opportunity of seeing higher education from the inside, the fact is clear that higher salaries for teachers from kindergarten to the uni-versity--is a cardinal path toward Southern recovery. To Couch goes our fondest farewell. We know that it is un necessary to wish him success in the management of the Uni versity of Chicago Press, for we well know from the work which he has done here that he will be highly successful. We hope that he will not enter a suicidal battle with the student press at the University of Chicago as he did here, but we know that if he does, he will believe in his cause right or wrong. We hope that the news of his resignation , will be amply pre ; sented before the legislature when it meets for its next ses sion. We hope that the people of North Carolina will not again elect to their legislature the tobacco spitting, loud mouthed, small-town politicians who have attacked higher wages for teachers because of their little minds are not fully able to com prehend. The trend in recent years has been toward a better grade of legislators ; as that trend increases the universities of the North will drain off less and less of our prime faculty and North Carolina will little by little take the lead in higher educa tion which means a lead in over-all development. PICTORIAL REVIEW "In this issue we have endeavored to present a pictorial review of what Carolina was during the war. We are grateful to James Sanford, Buddy Glenn, and Banks Mebane who stayed with us in the'Tar Heel office all of Sunday night and Monday morning to prepare this issue. . Gogs of the Wheel IIEC JFmm o ATOMIC ENERGY PROGRESS OR DESTRUCTION? When the first atomic bomb fell on the Japanese port of Hiroshima August 6 (Japanese time), it became immediately obvious that a gTeat event had occurred. It struck the imagination of the people of the country, it was discussed over every cracker barrel and cocktail bar in the country, and the headline and . editorial writers went wild pre dicting everything from imme diate unconditional surrender of Japan to a world of technological ' unemployment on either the front page or the editorial page con ventional editorialization on the front pages didn't seem to matter any more. The nation was so upset that some ventured comment as to the moral right of the United Nations to use such a horrible weapon. Presi dent Truman "searched his con science" and some prayed with him to find the right answer to this moral question. Most of the press was silent on this issue for an ob vious reason. War itself is a rejec tion of moral principles in favor of national survival. There are no morals of war except in petty things like the treatment of prison ers et al. Too much has already been said about the potential power of the atom and too little about' what should be done about it. There is a great deal ' of controversy on whether or" not the government should allow the big corporations to use the patent for this . Truman said that the British and Ameri can governments had a joint "patent" on it and threw it into the lap of a conservative congress to decide tbe issue. . -However merited the argument might be on both sides, the crucial question that makes this probem insignificant is: Will there be enough civilization after the next war (if we have one) to use this or any other invention? By "civil ization I mean some higher form of human activity above a few human beings crawling out of a cave in an isolated part cf the world with a copy of the "clas sics" and the Trisco Charter that sort of progress is probably cf some "intrinsic value" but undesir able in comparison to the progress that can be made by some intelli gent action made in the field of in ternational government. What is the solution to this problem? Is it monopoly of the power of the atom by either Brit ain and the United States or "The Big Three?" There isn't any need of giving clarifying remarks no!!! 1) Any nation or group of nations which would try to maintain a monopoly of the secret would be come hated, despised, and feared by all other nations of the world. 2) Monopoly of this invention is im possible because only the later stages of development are secret and can be duplicated within a dec ade and the raw material, Uranium 235, is distributed so as to make a monopoly of it virtually impos sible as well as the fact that other material .will probably be found to substitute for U-233. The would-be monopolists would have to wage a "preventive war" against every country experimenting with atomic energy. This is obviously based on the premise that there will be a third World War. I consider it probable unless an international government is set up with a monop oly of atomic research and power a world federation. American public opinion, your an cestors revolted against the Brit ish to enable you to express your will on crucial issues; here is your chance to help save the world. Humanity, relax in the self-satisfying thought that something icill happen to counteract this threat to your existence and sign your death warrant. By Allan Panmll The road is long; yet the cogs are strong. The wheel rolls on. . Your Man Friday was amused on seeing: v A pompous senior ambling from the post office, glancing furtively around, and then delicately snif fing the dainty pink envelope clutched in his hand. A - government supported' Pre- Flight buying a ' milkshake and kindly feeding it to one of the many Chapel Hill dogs. The anxiously grinning service men listening to the broadcasts of a possible early peace with Japan. Two freshmen feeding a squirrel popcorn under Davie Poplar. Several ROTCmen dazedly wan dering from the Marine dorms on the Sunday morning after. A lone coed having a beer with Jeff, and telling him how unhappy her love life was. To an innocent bystander it seems that: The dome of South building could well use a good cleaning. Even the pidgeons are beginning to shun it! If the French Pre-Flights can fly as well as they can sing, Paris will be in good hands. The Pi Phis are due credit for their redecoration plans. Oceans of blister lotion, and good luck, gals. Pat, of the Porthole Pats, is still at it. However, instead of hearts, he's now breaking rocks near Hen derson ville. More blister lotion!! Dr. Lefler is soon going to need a canine roll to call in his 11 o'clock history class. On Saturdays the dogs outnumber the other students ! Something could be done to make the Spanish placement exam a bet ter measure of ability. Too large a percentage of those who take it . are put in an advanced course, and .soon have to drop it and go to a more elementary course, or else flunk it flat!! This needless loss of the student's time and money, has even been noted aad complained of by two professors of the Spanish department. I wonder if that is' recommendation enough to stir the ' stumps of whoever is responsible ? The newly rejuvenated Monogram Club has been sadly neglected by those members on campus, in the absence of Jack Davies, its presi dent. What will Jack and the rest think when they get back, boys? Coffee and doughnuts bring on such odd chatter: "Why is everyone crowding around the radio so? Anyone would the war was almost think that over!!" "Sure the end door was open, but our dear housemother opened it and was just waiting for someone to use it. You're damn right I got caught!" "I got my laundry back yester day, including a pair of boy's shorts! How will I ever explain them to mother when I get home?" "I don't like Wallace either, but that's the first time I've heard him compared to a Jap!" "I don't know when I'm going home. According to that exam ; schedule,- 111 be taking my chemis- try exam on Sunday!!" "The kids here at Carolina sure have a good time, don't they?" "You mean the one about a wheel or somethin'? Yea, I read it, and I sure hope that guy never gets mad at me; he sounds rough!" (Plug, dear readers, plug!) Midnight musings: Now that this war seems-to be just about finished, I wonder if Ross and Fulton will be going after " all? It looks like London will get the same large charge that Frisco got. Hunt is going over soon, and I guess we'll all be waiting to hear big things of our local yokel. If his umbrella has the same effect on the Limeys that Chamberlain's, did, undoubtedly his parliamentary "procedure" will be severely punc tured! What a relief it was to hear that the Yack will be out! Although that voice of the vet erans has been temporarily muffled as far as campus 'affairs are con cerned, I surely hope it's only tem porarily before it can be heard long, loud, and to good advantage! Sure was good news that the latest batch of Steele Dormers have lifted themselves from under the synthetic heel of Wallace, the self appointed monarch of all incoming freshmen. ' What's the trouble, James, slipping? - I wonder whatever happened to Johnny, the campus cop ? He was one evermore good Joe! What the hell is our enterprising laundry trying to do? Report has READING THE EXCHANGES By Frederick Smetana Please print -something we can reprint. We're DESPERATE! We can't find a thing tonight. PLEASE help us out. Ed. ANOTHER USE FOR THE TAR HEEL The Tar Heel has a purpose, ac cording to a coed in Carr Dorm. .She rushes down to get her copy, and when her enthusiasm is com mented upon, she answers that she , uses it on the floor under her washing to keep the floor dry. Some day perhaps the editor will publish a special wash edition, without that bothersome old print er's ink on, it. HOW DO YOU KNOW? After Dr. Markham had finished explaining some properties of an element, a bewildered student came up with the question, "But how do you know they will do that?" Dr. Markham pondered a while and replied, "I know you had a grandmother. I didn't know her, but I know you had one." Which of course, cleared tbe mind of a muddled student. A chemistry prof, for instance, stirred the senior level of a fresh man level required course with a bit of poetry from Dorothy Parker. Explaining what a catalyst is he compared it to Miss Parker's words, "Candy's dandy, "Liquor's quicker." Summer Texaji. A kiss is a pronoun she stands for it. A kiss is a verb it denotes ac tion. A kiss is a conjunction it con nects. A kiss is an adjective it denotes expression and a sensation of joy. A kiss is not an adverb you know where or why. A kiss is singular but is used plurally. The Technique. HEADLINES (Continued from first page) . . . Navy's $192,000 Infirmary Opens cision To Lease House Facilities for Soon, As Latest Addition to the Navy's Naval Reservists . . . NROTC To Oc Vast Building Program . . . Draft Stu- cupy Old East, Old West as Barracks dent Enlistments Wartime .University, After Call To Active Duty . . . UNC Cause 12 Percent Drop in Enrollment Middies Will Follow Naval Academy . . . War College Opens to 70 Students Scheme . . . Tar Heel To Cease Daily . . . Navy Takes Over Carr Dorm . . . Publication Tomorrow as PU Board Announces That UNC Had Been Ap- Plans New Weekly To Start in July . . . proved By WMC for a Basic Navy Tar Heel Turns Semi-Weekly as Board Training Program School . . . U. S. Plans Extra Issue Faculty Rejects Public Health Service Has Just Des- Adoption of Trimester Plan . . . The ignaed the School of Public Health of Campus War Loan Drive Exceeds Its the University as Training Center for Quota by More than $18,000 . . . Ad Health Educators Urgently Needed miral Jacobs States Terrific Battle To During the War . . . Post War Recon- Be Fought Before We Get To Tokyo struction Period Announced by Brown . . . Civilian Ranks Get Thinner As . . . Dr. Graham Squelches Rumors Students Report for Induction . . . Re That University May Abandon Cam- cent Draft Board Order Sends 125 To pus to Government . . : Major Tight I'ort Bragg . . . Sailors from Fleets Arrives to Take Command of Meteor- Fill Ranks of V-12 Units . . . Carolina ology School of the Army ... WPB Adopts Trimester . . . Fraternities To Regulation Rules Out Non-Military Gef Houses Back from Navy . . . Ma Air Training at UNC Airport in War- lines from 6 Other Colleges to Trans time.'.. Carolina to Turn Over Dorms fer to Carolina . . . Bond Qta T. it that a man has been contacted to Navy . . . Steele Dorm Is Left As ped as Sales Reach $40,000 . . . South in Charlotte to come here and buy the Only Civilian Men's Dormitory, era Colleges To Send' Student Dele- When Guy B. Phillips, becretary to gates Here To Consider Problems of the War College, Announced that April 25 Parley . . . Representatives Navy V-12 Students Will Be Housed Will Send Two To S. F. Conference in Old East, Old West, BVP and .. .Roosevelt Is Dead !!!... Hunt, Clif Whitehead Beginning July 1. . . UNC ford leave for World Conference To and Fraternities Make Tentative De- day . . . some laundering machinery. More power to the buyer in that the stuff hard to get, but please, sweet is laundry, see if you can't use those machines to get us our shirts and See COGS, page 6.
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