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TUESDAY. OCTOBER 16. 1945 Page Two THE TAR HEEL OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE PUBLICATIONS UNION SERVING CIVILIAN AND MILITARY STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL ROBERT MORRISON ...... HOWARD MERRY - JACK LACKEY . JACK SHELTON IRWIN SMALLWOOD CARROLL POPLIN BETTIE GAITHER- HARRISON TENNEY 4 News Staff: - . Jane Baucom, Jean Blan Sibyl Goerch, Augrusta Pharr, Betty Green, Elizabeth Pinckney. Eleanor Craig, Marty Taylor, Nancy Hoffman, Tom Corpening, Jo Pugh, Dot Churchill, Frances Halsey, Jean Ferrier, Janet Johnston, Fay Maples, Thelma Cohen, Koy Thomp son Mary Hill Gaston, Jocelyn Landvoight. Fred Clapp. Betty Washburn, Al Lowenstein, Albert Hnffstichler, Barbara Spain, Gloria bobbins, Jane MacCalman, Arnold Dolin, Jean Thompson, Madeline Cooley, Charlie. Kifman, Morty Seif, Sam Snmmerlin, Mel Cohen. Bill Kornegay, Emily Chanpell. Bill Soe3ions, Richard L. Koral, Carolyn Rich, Lindy Behsman. ! ' ' Biuine Staff: Billy Selig, Charles Bennett, Ann Thornton, Mary Pierce Johnson, Natalie Selig. Suzanne Barclay, Alma Young, Mary Louise Martin. Circulation Staff: ' Tom Corpening, Eugene Ryon. CAROLINA VS. GROUPS Today we walked through the old Pre-Flight area, the Uni versity's lower quadrangle. Being civilians, we found it was almost like another school, which hadn't opened. But the thought naturally came that soon those rooms would be filled, or par tially filled, with students who had come there of their own choosing, students who would want to be a part of the student body and who would want to feel that they were a part o the student body. What effect will this have upon Carolina? We feel that this has the potentialities of becoming a definite prob lem. The war and the advent of the service units on the campus has done one big thing to hurt Carolina : the dividing of the student body into groups and factions. This has probably been unavoidable, but it is nevertheless exceedingly bad on school spirit and campus morale. It "does something" to the student body that isn't good. Having come to Carolina during the war years, we have found lacking that old Carolina' spirit that alumni and older stu dents had told about. Practically the only time a student can get a real feeling that he is part of a tudent body is during the half at the Duke-Carolina game when the band plays "Hark the Sound," and the half -drunk stands arise to sing. Of course, an exceptional few can get the Carolina spirit elsewhere and at other times, but the fact remains that at the present this is a campus of definitely separated groups. Now the question is: Will the coming of more and more civi lian students and the filling up of the lower quadrangle tend to pull the campus together or will it form just another group working for itself? From the -way the situation looks now, it will be the latter. Unless each and every group and faction stops the old policy of working for its own personal wants at the expense of the rest of the campus and begins the older policy of working for the interests of all, the student activities at Carolina are sure to gradually "fold their tents and silently steal away." We've got to learn that what is good for one is good for all and that the college campus just like any community is interdependent. Each one of us, individually and collectively, must stop think ing entirely of ourselves, our own groups. ' We must follow Ben Franklin's advice or we shall "surely hang separately" and stu dent activities at Carolina will be doomed. UNC THANKS YOU, DR. COKER We thought our readers might like to know how it all came to be, so that they could add it to their collection of famous "So That's How It Started" items. y The following is quoted from Kemp Plummer Battle's History of the University of North Carolina. The Tar Heel goes on record as favoring the con - tinued use of that which is under discussion. "At the close of my description of places of interest in and around Chapel Hill should be mentioned the lovely Arboretum, the work of Dr. William C. Coker. He has converted a barren, pipe-clay, wornout old field, the first cleared lands within the limits of Chapel Hill, into a garden of flowers and shrubs and winding paths. By a generous donation of Mrs. Margaret Shipp he has erected, parallel to Cameron Avenue, a Pergola, on which vines, are beginning to trail. When completed, it will be a favorite resort of belles and beaux." , , ABOUT YACKETY YACK Everyone seems tired of waiting for the Yackety Yack to make its appearance on the mad Chapel Hill scene. Since the year book is the one thing that holds and, upon command, divulges the frantic, happy college experiences, almost all students like to have them, keep them, look at them with pride and pleasure from time to time. And everyone is anxious and impatient to see the record of the past year that they have scrambled through. We're tired of waiting for our Yack. We realize in a hazy way what the staff has been up against in the way of material and labor shortages, but, along with everyone else, we want our annual. Yet we know of one person who can shut off the gripes and the impatient complaints. That person is one of the editors who has sat up in the Yack office and seen that less than 50 percent of the civilians on cam- pus and about one percent of the V-12's have come by to make appointments to have their pictures taken for this year's edi tion. He'll be there when the complaining starts when the Yack comes out, and he'll be there if there's any complaining about the next issue. He'll be asking where the student sup port was. ....... Editor Managing Editor News Editor Copy Editor Sports Editor Sports Editor Business Manager -Circulation Manager Life Can Be Beautiful Offers Aid By Dick We are appalled at the lack of knowledge among college students! Results of the recent Tar Heel poll on current affairs was unbeliev able. And we, as the true prophets of public enlightenment have taken it upon ourselves to employ our ex tensive influence for the rectification of this abhorring condition. We shall take two or three ques tions about which every college should have a working knowledge - and shall endeavor to discuss them on a highly intellectual plane. Question number 1 : WHO is the President of the" United States? .... Now wait! Don't stop reading this ; don't give up we realize we've started off with a "toughie;" nevertheless, we must consider it from every angle, leaving no stone unturned in our search for the an- ! swer. It appears that there are . three schools of thought, on fthe matter, the first; the second, and (natcherly) the third. This may sound unbelievable, but it's true. The first group, most often termed by foreign propagandists as "Re publicans" claim that there is real ly no President; they WILL admit that there was at one time a Presi dent of this nation, but firmly state that that office had been abolished when Mr. Hoover left the White House in 1933. The second group are commonly called "Democrats," and the popu lar opinion "among them is that there IS a President, and that any one denying this fact is being narrow-minded, prejudicial, and detri mental to the American way of life. There is a third group, a small but determined band of liberalists who hold neither to the Republican or Democratic views, believing that there never HAS been a President, that there SHOULD be one, and that there WILL be one if their can didate, Norman Whatizzname, should live to be 146 years old. There it is in a nutshell ... we have discussed the question from all possible angles and hope that you now have the answer firmly es tablished in your mind. Question number 2: WHY do we celebrate the Fourth of July? This question is not as obvious as it might first appear. After much ex tensive research, we feel that we are now the world's authorities on the subject. In the first place, there are those who celebrate the Fourth because Curves and Angles By Connie (To tell the students about coed doings and thoughts, Connie Hen- dren, Mag editor and prominent politico, takes typewriter in hand and comes forth with a column of "Curves and Angles.") f ' A certain jewelry firm sends its representative through town every now and then to . take orders for extra fraternity pins and other flotsam and jetsam, among their , stock in trade being large china beer mugs complete with name of school 1 and fraternity crests. Some coeds wanted to order the mugs with their sorority seals, but were told by the agent that he was not ' allowed to sell BEER mugs to so rorities. "But," he said with a hor rid leer and twirling his musta chioes, "we do sell sorority COCOA mugs," and whisked out of his satchel an exact replica of the fraternity ones complete with a woman's Greek crest. This must be the height of euphemism (keep the change). No doubt the very latest - in parties will be cocoa picnics, with chocolate in kegs and bottles, and the lads and lassies drinking the potent stuff out of their china mugs, all with the blessings of the fraternity jewelry company that disapproves of beer for girls. . ' And then there was the one about the hen that was laying in a supply of coal. This is inserted as filler of course, and probably you have already heard it, but it does take up a few lines and that's what we wanted was to take up a few lines of space where we didn't have anything, else to run. ; V The White Steed, current Play makers production, should draw large crowds. Playmakers shows in the past have been notable for good acting, interesting, plays, and effec tive stage settings. With exams drawing nearer, the library is doing a land-office business checking out books that should have been . read six weeks ago. To Ignorant and Wye it is their birthday, apparently a very logical reason- And, on the other hand, there are those who celebrate because it ISNT their birthday. Snafu EL Hecansmoocher, a man of many and varied talents, has confided that he celebrates the Fourth because it was on this day that his three-year-old son first showed signs of genius -when he playfully split open, the head of Snafu's mother-in-law with his ; little tomahawie, thus accomplish ing with one sweft blow what Sna fu had been vainly trying to do for ' almost "twenty years. ; The oddest of the celebrations is . carried on by a branch of an old Indian tribe, the Chargogagogman chagagogchabungagungamog. (This last is a tribal name meaning "You stay on your side, well stay on our side, and nobody will go in the middle," and you can check us on that one if you like). They, quaintly enough, celebrate the Fourth as an Independence Day, marking the an niversary of their liberation from the tyrranous rule of the pale-faced oppressors. This is the only cele bration of this type that we have been able to discover, but it de serves little recognition because of its use by such a minor group of the population. In our investigation we have determined, however, that the majority of the American peo ple celebrate this day because it is some sort of a holiday, the exact nature of which has never been ac curately determined. Our own per sonal opinion, however, is that this celebration is staged in commem oration of the final settlement of some sort of bituminous coal strike in western Pennsylvania. Now that we have shown how relatively simple it is to solve the seemingly difficult problems of the world by merely applying a liberal amount of common sense, it is un thinkable that there is any longer an excuse for the presence of un informed people on the Carolina campus. For anyone desiring a more detailed explanation of our meth ods, references and sources of in formation, however, we must admit we are getting tired of this endless stream of postcards which we have been receiving, and therefore would like to inform you that only eight page, wax-sealed, gold-edged, 8x10 letters will be accepted in return for our pamphlet "A Layman's Guide to a Fuller Education." Hendren Now, while the Carolina coed is looking forward to one of the gay est social seasons in quite a few years, she should thank her lucky stars that she has reached what practically amounts to a state of worship by the Carolina Gentle man. It hasn't always been like this, and if you need proof of that statement, gals, check through a few of the old Yacks and see how it used to stand. Coeds have definitely risen in general glamour rating. Any coeds featured a few years ago were the glasses and ground-grip-pers type, and the beauty sections were teeming with beautiful wim men from other schools. Even when it came to sponsoring dances the coeds were out in the cold. It was unfair, discrimination, that's what it was, and even if it did take a large sized war and the resultant trans portation problems to thin the ranks of imports, the coeds now See CURVES, page U. 0 German Scientist May Know Atom-Bomb By Richard G. Stern What looked like a harmless little fact appeared in Drew Pearson's col umn the other day. It told of the disappearance of a certain Werner Heisenberg who happened to be (should I have said is?) the top German authority on atomic energy. Government dfficials, state our friend Mr. Pearson, either didn't know or weren't telling where this distinguished Nazi is. About six months ago in a Paris journal another innocuous looking fact appeared, namely, that strange fires had appeared in the Spanish sky in the central part of General Franco's non-belligerent country. It was a short article; the only oth er thing it said, and this seemed to be the main interest, was that the residents in the district were mak ing a rather hasty exodus the "poor, scared, worried populace." The Germans had an underground VIEWS of the NEWS By Sara Tfflett (Beginning a column by well-informed, journalistic major, Sara Tiflett, to keep Tar Heel readers abreast with the important events of a world fighting a peace.) Today's labor problem is not a futile battle between coupon clip pers and underfed radicals. It is the here and the now of our economic reconversion. Its solution will ef fect tomorrow's grocery bill. Briefly, the facts are that most of the labor unions are asking for - a thirty per cent 'increase in wages. The automobile worker who, dur ing the war, got sixty dollars for forty-eight hours of work now gets forty-six dollars for forty hours of work. This means a twenty-five per cent cut in take-home pay at a time when the cost of living 'is still high. Because of this wage decrease and because of the fact that four and a half million war workers have left industry, twenty billion dollars less will be going into wages and sal aries next year. Labor claims that this decrease in consumers' buying power will curtail industrial expan sion. Labor claims further that indus try could absorb a thirty per cent increase in pay without raising prices. Department stores increased their profits from 1.5 per cent in Just Aiother Opinion Questions Dean 's Ruling By Roy Thursday afternoon, just forty eight hours after Lenoir Hall open ed its doors to civilians again, Dean Stacy announced that coeds who - have been eating in fraternity houses during the past few months will not be allowed to do so after the first of November. During the war years civilian students didn't eat too well in Chap el Hill. The food situation wasn't quite as bad as Tar Heel editors made it appear at times, but it was pretty bad. There were dirty tables, witty waiters, stale rolls and high prices. The cafe owners had prob lems, but they could at least eat at home. Administration leaders may have tried to do something about feeding students, but the Gra ham Memorial Grill was allowed to operate under inefficient manage ment for a long time until students took things into their own hands. Food at the Inn Cafeteria was reas onably clean and tasted good at times, but it cost a lot more than our General College catalog estimate of thirty-five dollars a month for board. As a means of easing the strain on already overloaded eating places, coeds were given permission to eat in fraternity houses. This was good for both groups. The coeds could keep on eating, and the frats could keep on cooking. Several of the houses have been feeding the girls since their houses were handed back by the Navy last March. They've got dining rooms feeding a large number of coeds along with their READING THE Jock McDougal had blown his lassie to a movie and even hailed a cab to take her home. As they were riding along, she, knowing his natural bent concerning money, remarked: "Oh, Jock, it does make me feel awfully wicked riding this way." At that Jock cheered up tremen dously. ' factory nineteen miles long, east of Berlin! Atomic principles, general and many specific, are universally known ! These are a collection of "harm less" facts. Peruse them well; they might be the last thing that you will ever peruse.. Stranger things have happened. The Gotterdamerung might be a complete one. "If we are defeated we will drag Europe, nay, the world down to defeat with us. Civ ilization will disappear with its greatest civilizers." A half forgot ten man bearing the ' somewhat ridiculous cognomen of Goebbels passionately uttered these words many times in the days between the decline and fall of the third German Reich. What more can we say? We have offered some facts which we have ' put together in the journalistic man 1939 to 12 per cent in 1944. Thus some of the difference could be made-up at the retail level. It is estimated that the total profit of all corporations "will be 17.5 bil lion dollars this year. A thirty per cent increase in wages would cost industry- three billion dollars. It would leave industry a fourteen billion dollar profit almost three times the 1939 profit. The probable reduction of the excess profit tax is another factor in labor's favor. Labor contends that out of jus tice wages must be increased and that there is no need for prices to rise with wages unless the govern ment is afraid to squeeze profit from industry. Industry's answer is that higher wages plus the cost of conversion from wartime to peace time production and the expense of training inexperienced workmen would force prices upward. It is probable that the two will com promise on a fifteen per cent in crease in wages. But it is 'doubtful that labor will be satisfied with this. The labor issue will of necessity be a key issue for all political as pirants in 1946 and 1948. And un less the public is aware of facts rather than fads, we will have to accept the boom-and-bust cycle and the law of nature that some econ omists claim it to be. Thompson members. They've hired extra waiters, cooks, and dish washers to take care of the girls. The coeds are paying about thirty-five to forty dollars a month for two meals a day that are better than they've been able to find downtown. They like to eat in fraternity houses. Tuesday at noon Lenoir Hall started feeding students again. Two days later the decree that rumor had been spreading over the cam pus for weeks was finally handed down. To the surprise of nobody in particular it came right along with the- opening of Lenoir. There are ways and ways of getting business. Perhaps there is, a reason for this action. Perhaps it is not as arbi trary as it looks, but there are those who, would like to know the reason. The coeds like things the way they are. Many of the fraternity din ing rooms will suffer a great deal from this ruling. If there is an evil which is connected with letting the girls eat where they please, the evil hasn't been made clear. It should be. There is still a student govern ment here at Carolina. It is more than an order-taking organization. We don't always do the right thing, but we like to make our own mis takes. This ruling, many believe, is way out of line. It there is a reason for the action, our student legislature could and should have an active part in issuing the decree. If there is no reason, let's keep the dining rooms open for the girls. EXCHANGES "Then, maybe, it was worth the money after all," said he. Cloud buster, Sept. 14. Don't envy the gal with wolves at her feet, Don't sit by yourself and groan, Bring out the charms you've hid den, my sweet, And go get some wolves of your own. ner of a Hearst paper. This is an "alarmist" article admittedly. But, we as an unwelcome change from the "herrings' of our bedfellow, have something rather large to be alarmed over. . We have the interests of Planet No. 3, Solar System 1, Milky Way Galaxy, at heart (or head). More specifically we have Ma and Pa and Cousin Jake and Uncle Sam and Johnny Bull and Betty Grable and Fala and US at heart. We're wor ried. We're worried about some thing we were thinking, not so long ago, was over and done with. We're worrying about a hydra who has sprouted a rather ugly and voracious looking head. We may be wrong we hope so. But the odds are strong enough (over 2,000,000 to one) for us not to take any chances. Now you tell me I
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