THE DAILY TAR HEEL
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1942
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PRIVILEGE TO HEAR...
International Relations Club will present Dr.
Alexander Loudon, Dutch Minister, this after
noon. The address will be IRC's first afternoon
event. The reason is a noble ne, and the organi
zation deserves exceptional commendation for its
arrangements.
This is what IRC's members did: after weeks
of effort for the Dutch envoy's appearance here,
Dr. Loudon accepted, stating that he would
speak Wednesday night, February 18. They im
mediately released this news to the Daily Tar
Heel. But news came shortly after that George
Glamack was on his way back for a basketball
spectacle. Glamack's team would play Wednesday
night, February 18.
IRC dispatched a telegram without hesitation
to Dr. Loudon, one of the most important men
in Washington. The club's message pointed out
that they didn't want Carolina students to make
a choice between a program of great, momentous
importance and an event of special entertain
ment. IRC asked the minister to switch his ad
dress to this afternoon at 4:15. Dr. Loudon ac
cepted. For that unselfish, farsighted gesture of .the
IRC alone, we would ask you not to miss Dr. Lou
don's speech this afternoon. But, broadly speak
ing, a more significant reason exists. Dr. Loudon
is the only man now in the United States besides
the Dutch Foreign Minister the East Indies
emissary has left for the Far East who can
give the country an inside view of the strangely
magnificent Dutch fight against the Japanese.
And that man is here in Chapel Hill today,
with the promised purpose of clearing up and
amplifying the Dutch war situation to North
Carolina's university students.
Dr. Loudon, with his charming wife, will re
main ori the Carolina campus throughout the day,
surveying the school, attending. the IRC luncheon
and banquet, delivering his address from Memor
ial hall's speaker stand, granting interviews and
talking with students in open forum and small
discussions. The minister is doing all this in the
midst of a heavy war schedule of conferences
with President Roosevelt, State Department of
ficials, Dutch military representativesand for
eign ministers and ambassadors.
SOYOU DON'T CARE...
A front page story and two pictures on the
front page of today's Daily Tar Heel give a com
plete account of the series of coat thefts that
have taken place on the campus since Christmas.
As we promised, we are running a picture of the
guilty party.
This paper is happy that one of the coat thieves
has been caught; yet we would like to urge the
students not to get lax again.There are still those
among us who have no respect for the rights and
privileges of others. Books and overcoats will
continue to be stolen. Society will always be both
ered with thieves. But if we'will stay on the alert, .
and do everything possible to discourage any
more thefts, they will be reduced to a minimum.
Full credit for catching the coat thief goes to
the local police department. For a week Hubert
Yeargan, a local policeman, stayed in the base
ment of Graham Memorial watching the coat
rack. When the guilty party tried to steal Year
gan's coat he was caught. Now that the police
department has done its bit, we urge that the
local court hand down the maximum penalty.
Along the same lines we are glad that the thief
was not a student. This gives us reason to be
lieve that perhaps the Honor Code and Honor
System has a more far-reaching effect on mem
bers of the student body than we have been led
to believe in the past.
SUGAR RATIONING...
The day of priorities has long since arrived
but it is still a popular fad in Congress now that
the pension bill has been sneaked through. Pen
cil erasers are still considered minor incidentals,
but soon now a bored Congressman will be suck
ing his pencil and spy that idle bit of rubber. Of
course the Congressman can't see that the pen
cil eraser is accomplishing anything because he
never uses one on his bills. Several Congressmen,
who never use sugar in their coffee anyway, put
their heads together'one evening after a dinner
which was concocted by a former cook of a Mars
plant, and they decided that the nation's dental
bill was too high. Besides, if a rationing bill were
passed, the starving gluttons of America would
realize that something is astir, and they would
undoubtedly think that, their representatives are
on the ball. So stumbled the thoughts of our
election minded Congressional politicos.
It is here with all its horrible realities. We Don
Juans will no longer be permitted, to bestow upon
our loved ones five pound boxes of Valentine can
dy. With our allotted three-fourths of a pound
a week some will attempt to flavor several cups
of java while others will become disgusted and
dash their grains into the waste can. Of course
no one understands exactly how their ration
cards will be punched for the sugar coating on
the daily pack of gum or the sugar in cokes which
are gotten from machines, but Congress has some
plan afoot, no doubt. Naive Leon of the price
front stated recently that a ceiling would be plac
ed on retail sugar if the pleas of housewives had
no effect. Soon each morning we will dive for our
sack of sugar under the bed and tie the spice
around our necks. It will be somewhat embarrass
ing reaching into our shirts and such at meals
for the latest priority.
OUR MISTAKE . . .
Again we've made a gross mistake. A short In
Passing item that appeared in Sunday's paper
stated that political parties on the campus are
more interested in potential vote-getting rather
than the men who the future staffs feel would
make the better editors. This is definitely not
our belief; rather it is an item that passed
through on a busy week-end.
We are against staff nominations. We feel
there is more politics in a staff nomination than
there is in a campus election. The man will get
the staff nomination who sees members of his
staff first. A small group can be won to one side
easier than a large group."
We feel that the Student Party made a wise
move in nominating publication candidates bef pre
staff nominations. This not only gives a man
working on a publications i cnance to work, but.
he is not bothered with trying to make friends
with everyone: Staff nominations are on the way
out. Which leads us to believe that Carolina stu
dents will now, more than ever before, have a
free hand in voting for the candidates they think
are best fitted for campus posts.
To The Student Body:
The Student Council has been
charged by Mr. Harry Symmes with
seeming to resent "any criticism
which comes in the best interests of
the campus as a whole." If this is
the way the Council has appeared to
Harry, I am sorry that he has been
so deceived.
He is mistaken about the Council,
and I wonder if he has any reason
or evidence for stating that the
Council seems to be resentful of all
criticism directed toward it. The
Council is open to criticism at all
times, and I hope that we will always
be able to take criticism with good
grace even though the criticism
may be as unfair and without factual
basis as Mr. Symmes' editorial seems
to me to be.
The Student Council was unani
mous in its disagreement with Mr.
Symmes in his interpretation of the
Honor Code. If this is the evidence
Mr. Symmes means when he points
the Council out as a body resenting
any criticism made in the interest of
the campus, the Council is sorry for
his interpretation. But it will not
and cannot change its decisions and
ways of thinking to please Mr.
Symmes.
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Here, briefly stated, is the differ
ence in the Council's interpretation
of the Honor Code and Harry's inter
pretation. If Harry is right and the
Council is wrong as -is always pos
sible, it is our mistake and we are
sorry. But we feel that .in the future
Harry should accredit us with the
same sincerity in our interpretation
that we accord him in his.
Harry feels that hazing is a viola
tion of the Honor Code. The Council
does not. The Honor Code states that
' a person is on his honor not to lie,
cheat,' or steal, and also that he will
report anyone who violates this code.
That is all the Honor Code says;
that is all it has ever implied to a
Student Council since I have been
on it. If Mr. Symmes interprets
hazing as lying, cheating, or steal
ing, then he is right in feeling that
the Council should call hazing a viola
tion of the Honor Code, and anyone
who does not report such offenses
iS also violating the Honor Code.
Unfortunately, the Council cannot
see hazing as lying, cheating, or
stealing and cannot, therefore, do
anything less than call down the'
Editor of the Daily Tar Heel and Mr.
Symmes when they state that failures
to report hazing violates the Honor
System.
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The Council has never said, let
it be understood, that it would not
handle any cases brought to its at
tention by any individuals where haz
ing was the charge. Hazing can be
carried to such an extent that it vio
lates the Campus Code, which re
quires all Carolina men to be gentle
men. There i3 not, however, a re
quirement with the Campus Code
that every Carolina man is on his
honor to report an ungentlemanly
act on the part of any Carolina man,.
This is the only point that the Coun
cil has made during the entire dis
pute between the Tar Heel editorials
and the Interf raternity Council. Such
a position seems to us to be entirely
sound and the only one consistent
with the laws under which the Coun
cil operates. There has been no cons
cious shirking of responsibility or la
bor as Mr. Symmes charges. The
Council has stated in the Tar Heel
that it would attempt to dispense
justice in any hazing case to its at
tention, and I pledge you that it will.
If the Council is wrong in its only
statement-r:"tbe failure of a Carolina
student to report hazing is not a vio
lation of our Honor Code", then
again for the Council I say we are
sorry. But we do feel that we can
in honor interpret the Honor Code
otherwise.
Sincerely,
Truman Hobbs
A. J. Olson, University of Minnesota regent,
has been elected president of the National As
sociation of Governing Boards of State Universities.
IN PASSING . .
The University religious council's lecture
series, entering its second night in Gerrard hall,
will not attract the . psuedo-intellectuals. It's
down-to-earth and practical ; that's why Carolina
, students are missing something if they trade this
evening's discussion for two hours of watching
Loretta Young, or bulling over their beers.
When Dr. Branscomb's lectures were announc
ed, the council promised a modern approach to re
ligious problems. The skeptics didn't think it pos
sible, but the Duke scholar has done it. Here is
the picture of religion in the light of a new era,
and the fellow that passes by Gerrard hall to
.night at 7:30 is tossing aside a valuable experience.
To The Editor:
We noticed several times during
the last few days that Negro children
were treated in a rather amazing
way to amuse the so-called Carolina
Gentleman. So for instance pails
of water were poured on them from
the windows of Ruffin dormitory,
they were made to fight in the mud
over a penny, they were made to
dance in front of Sutton's drug-store,
and all this for the reward of a few
coins.
We sincerely believe that this is
disgusting. What do you think would
the campus say if white children
were ever treated in the same way?
Sincerely yours
Franco Calma
Andre Szper
Paul Kattenburg
PVfcUC ENEAM ONETHE HOlP-UP TwUg
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gyre and gimble
by hayden carruth and harley moore
THE RAINS DROPPED IN
. . . AND STAYED AWHILE
This poem is a child of storm,
A terrifying tale to tell,
A ballad of a suff 'ring form
Who fought the tortux.es born in
hell.
One day (our hero's story goes)
The rains were brought from out
the west.
For days I struggled in the throes
0 hard J. Pluvius's best.
The lawns were mire, the paths were
mud; -No
respite from the ceaseless beat;
The gutters drowned in seething
flood;
Three lives were-lost in Franklin
Street. -
One day, no letup in the sky,
1 boldly dared the surging sea.
I bade my roommate last goodbye
To struggle to the library.
My fine ambitions were not prudent,
But still I plunged on through the
rain. -
And soon I was a wetter student
Than I shall ever be again.
Soon I met a wily beast
(A thing that ever hovers near us)
Up rose the bug with thoughts of
feast,
It was a filterable virus.
And never in King Arthur's day,
Nor in the courts of Petrograd
Has such a royal fight held sway,
Nor hero's fate been met so sad.
The lawn was left a trampled mass
As bug and human struggled there ;
Neither could the other pass,
And neither would the other spare.
Dooday de faydal baddle's done;
I lie here sick ad sunk id bed;
De germy blidzkrieg squarely won
Ad code idfests my fevered dead.;
So in the winter quarter
When the landscape's mostly water
All you people really oughta
Stay at home;
For a strong but germy nation
Seems to like precipitation
And will seize you with elation;'
Stay at home.
When your collar's damp and wrin
kled, And your notebook's soaked and crin
kled, And your back's been lightly sprin
kled With the rain,
YouH find it high and drier
If you'll stay beside the fire,
And let all the bugs conspire
In the rain. - 7
masic maker .. .
By Brad MeCnen
(While tee tcent north this past
weekend to hear Tony Pastor and
Mai Halle 1 1, colleague Walt Da in toft
was good-gate enough to get Charlie
Spivak to do a guest column.)
By Charlie Spivak
Your editor has asked for a brief
respite from his column-writing ac
tivities for one day, and since I
was sitting at the typewriter in the
editorial office of the Daily Tar Heel
at the moment, we (editorial "we")
were duly elected to substitute.
" "Choose your own subject" the editor
yelled as he dashed out of the office,
"I've got to meet my date."
Well, since I must start somewhere,
. I suppose I should begin by answer
ing the questions which are most fre
quently asked me in pr travels. In
that category falls one query which
invariably puts me really on the spot,
namely; "Who are your favorite
trumpet-players?" There are hun
dreds of really fine trumpet men
playing in various bands today.- Some
of them are famous but some excel
lent men, whom I have heard, are
still unknown. Their fame will come
at some time in the future. At the
risk of sticking my neck out again,
I would like to name a very few real
ly fine trumpet players who for their
musical achievements rate high with
me. Among my contemporaries I sa
lute, in alphabetical order Louis
Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, and
Harry James. I also want to men
tion here that one of the greatest
musical thrills I have ever had was
listening to the fine trumpeting of the
late Bix Beiderbeck.
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Another question that I am con
stantly asked is worded something
like this; "In your varied types of
engagements, which do you prefer
playing colleges, dance-halls, hotels,
theatres or what?" In answer I
want to say that we get real pleasure
out of playing to any audience which
receives our efforts enthusiastically.
It is the constantly changing type
of work which takes us from one city
to another, playing to all the differ
ent types of audiences that makes our
lives interesting. Any engagement
we play, if too prolonged, would be
come boring to us, and bring about
monotony. That is ,why we spend
some of our time in hotels, some in
theatres, and the rest on tour.
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And the last question which I am
constantly answering: "Has the war
and sthe draft affected you much
yet?" Naturally everyone's life is
affected now by the war to some de
gree. In our band, we have already
sent one man to the armed forces.
We are also devoting certain days
on our schedule for enteraining the
boys at military camps gratis. In
closing I just want to add that I know
I speak for everyone in the band when
I say that from myself down, we are
all ready, individually or collectively,
to serve the government in whatever
capacity they feel we are needed
whenever they want us. In the mean
time, I am glad we can go on playing
for two-steps and making people
happy instead of playing for goose
steps and making people Jappy.
P. S. The cats at Carolina are a
swell audience.
Dr. Bertha E. Stokes, Tulane Uni
versity graduate, is the first woman
county health officer in the history
of Alabama.
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