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ABILITY -NOT BULLETS...
You Should Attend
Indoor Games Today
When most countries, are at war, it does us
good" to know that here in Chapel Hill 420 out
standing athletes from New Jersey to Georgia
can come together and compete with ability and
not bullets. Such is the story of the 13th annual
Southern conference indoor games being held
here today, and such is the story of track a
sport recognized by most coaches as tops for ath
letic development. ' - (
Most of the stars here are competing against
one another for the last time. It will be their fin
al college performance, and they will want to
make it their best. They have worked hard get
ting in shape for this test and another test that
like all American youth they will have to
face.
If such an event were held in Madison Square
Garden a capacity crowd would be on hand. In
the past good crowds have attended the games
here, but this year there has not been as much
interest. The tire shortage, the war, the uncer
tain future all have been felt. But students can
still attend and should; the cost is 50 cents and
the returns are worth many times that.
It is only human that athletes perform their
best before a capacity crowd. If only a handful
turn out for the games those participating will
not be able to do their best; this will hurt future
games. Through the efforts of our own ft. A.
(Bob) Fetzer, who is the Dean of Southern
Track, they have been held here since their be
ginning. For days before the games and after
wards papers throughout the nation carry stories
with Chapel Hill datelines. The publicity Chapel
Hill receive along these lines could not be bought,
but the returns mean much.
Among those 420 athletes will be many of our
classmates. All in all today's indoor games rep
v resent a great many things. Certainly the time
and money involved is repaid to the individual,
and the University can well be proud that in an
other way it has helped to train the future sol
diers of America. See you there.
BUY DEFENSE BONDS
CAMPUS CIVILIAN DEFENSE . . .
Criticism aimed at the OSCD during the last
month, coming from students and faculty alike,
has hit the office on the count of inactivity.
This is what has been done:
An all-encompassing Information Center has
been established in the library. Air raid wardens
have been appointed for dorms, fraternities, and
sororities. Training is beginning. Ham radio fa
cilities have been organized and training classes
started. Dormitory forums, headed by profes
sors, are meeting at the rate of a dozen each
week, and bulletin boards have been instituted in
an ever increasing number of dorms. Student
panels on the war and war issues begin through
out the state next Thursday with the first stu
dent delegation visiting Henderson. A consumers
research division has been established; weekly
reports, on prices, rationing, and the "best buys"
will start in the Tar Heel within a few days. A
pamphlet for distribution throughout the na
tion's universities, explaining student civilian de
fense offices and their organization, isv in prep
aration now. Radio programs, broadcasting mo
rale and defense information from the campus
to the state, are a regular feature of the Cald
well hall studios.
Plus this concrete work there has been a moun
tain of organizing activity, setting up an office
that includes one third of the students in the
University. Extensive programs lie ahead ; OSCD
awa'ts onlv training equipment and information
from Washington. The wide-spread work of the
national council has entailed some disunity of
activity, and necessary materials from the Cani
tol have been lacking. Daily, now. material from
Washington arrives in Chapel Hill, and students '
SACRIFICE FOR WHAT . . .
Yesterday and the day before, the campus
seethed with reaction to the Student Legisla
ture's act to limit campus dance expenditures.
Some, strong supporters of the move to cut down
on all unnecessary, expenses, loudly approved the
action. Others were just as loud in denouncing
the cut. Still, by far the largest majority of the
student body was asking one question- just
what good will the sacrifice do? They were be
ginning to realize, despite President Roosevelt's
lullaby, that this nation is losing the war. They
were admitting that dances were luxuries, that
with a little originality they could still have a
good weekend, that dance expenses should be
cut down. Still, they wanted to know where the
money saved would go.
It will go where they want it to go. The Stu
dent Legislature has continually declared that
it has no desire to tell the students to whom the
money belongs where it should be spent. The
money belongs to the students and so does the
opportunity to divert that money to where it
will do the most good.
It is absurd for some students to argue that
if it is voted to refund the money, its owners
will waste it on beer and extra picture shows
without putting any of it to advantage. Prob
ably nine tenths of the Carolina students have
been begged by their parents to cut down on
their spending. We believe that any student in
telligent enough to be in college is also intelli
gent and conscientious enough to respect the
pleas of .his family.
If students find that they can afford to do
nate the money saved from the dances toward
a campus cause, they will have no trouble in
finding one. It could go to start a memorial for
the students from this University who serve and
die in the war. It could be something infinitely
more useful than a statue or a marble shaft a
number of scholarships to give aid to qualified
Carolina students during the pinch of years to
come. The money could go to the self-help fund.
It could go to the Red Cross to help those friends
and kin already fighting and being wounded for
the nation's cause. The money could go to the
CVTC or to the Student Civilian Defense pro
gram. The sacrifice will do two more things. When
Dr. Frank and Controller Billy Carmichael go
over to Raleigh next fall the fact that Carolina
students thought enough of the University and
the war to give up the luxury of dances will be
an important factor in persuading the State
Legislature to grant a better than bone allot
ment. Finally, if not only the Student Legislature
but all student government organizations con
tinue to take action which is as intelligent and
conscientious as that taken last Wednesday
night, Carolina student government has a bet
ter than even chance of surviving the war.
The Carolina campus has now taken back its
lead in the war effort. The fingers can wag no
longer.
BUY DEFENSE BONDS
IN PASSING...
Twenty-six states and the District of Colum
bia are represented in the student body of Texas
Christian University.
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Carl Sandburg is the most popular of living
American poets, according to a survey of Uni
versity of Kentucky English students.
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More than 91 per cent of the 873 new full-time
students who entered Wayne University in Sep
tember were given "Class A" ratings in physical
examinations recently completed.
may expect mobilization for training within a
short time.
Criticism . of OSCD is unwarranted. Critics,
still unconvinced, may push the program along
bv volunteering their own service. Office on
second floor Memorial hall open all afternoon.
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McGAUGHEY DENIES CREDIT
FOR BAGDAD DADDY CHANGES
Friday Morning
To The Editor:
Today's Tar Heel carried a review
" of Sound and Fury's "Bagdad Dad
dy," signed by Sylvan Meyer, which
created in the minds of the members
of the student body several entirely
false impressions.
This letter is to be no defense of
the first performance, nor an argu
ment against Mr. Meyer's opinion
of it. I believe that he did try to be
fair in his judgment, but he was not
well enough acquainted with the cir
cumstances to draw the conclusions
that he did. Admittedly the first
night performance of "Bagdad Dad
dy" left a lot to be desired, "but Mr.
Meyer was wrong in pointing the
finger of guilt at the director, Bob
Richards. Meyer was wrong on the
second count when he placed a glow
ing halo around my head by saying
in effect that by the second nightjs
performance I had "saved the show."
Now as much as I would like to be
considered a miracle man, I am afraid
that I cannot rightfully claim the
halo that belongs to Richards and
the 'cast.
What Meyer took for bad direction
Wednesday night was really a bad
case of the first night jitters for the
cast ; and the changes that were made
in the script the second night were
under Richard's direction, not mine.
Actually what happened the sec
ond day was that Richards practical
ly collapsed from sheer exhaustion
and overwork on the show, and in
order to give him a little rest before
the second performance I stepped in
merely to explain - to the cast the
changes he had decided upon the
night before in an all-night confer
ence with his staff. Had I not been
on hand, any one in the cast with a
knowledge of the situation would
have been able to perform the same
task with equal results.
If a full appreciation of the prob
lems that Richards faced and over
came in staging the show is to be
hail, it must be remembered that in
former Sound and Fury shows, the
principal speaking parts were in
nearly every case taken by people
with a good deal of previous stage
experience. In "Bagdad Daddy" for
most of the principal actors the per
formance marked their first appear
ance on the stage before an audience.
Is it any wonder then that they
should be jittery the first night?
That they were able to go on at all
is a tribute to Richards' ability to
give them confidence. But the fact
that they were willing to go on the
next night with a script that had
been unmercifully cut and changed
only a few hours beforehand, and
to produce a completely revised and
sparkling show, is the real proof
of their loyalty and respect for him.
It is unfortunate that Meyer was
not in a position to know the whole
story about the show, but as he wasn't
it seems only fair to Bob that the
above facts go on record.
' Yours truly,
Carroll McGaughey
Letters To The Editor
To The Editor:
In reply to Mr. Franco Calma's
article in Thursday's Tar Heel de
fending those who advocate hatred
toward and extermination of the Ger
man people, as if they and not inter
national fascism were our enemy, I
would like to refer to an editorial in
the New York Times Tuesday, Feb
ruary 24, called A Lesson In Diplom
acy. The lesson is for those short
sighted persons who give vent to
sweeping expressions of hatred a
gainst the whole German people and
who play into the hand of the Nazi
propagandists. On November 9,
Goebbels in a speech calculated to
frighten the German people into con
tinuing the war said, "If they (the
Allies) succeed in overcoming us,
Germany will be destroyed, extermi
nated, and extinguished."
This was well answered in Stalin's
speech when he said, "It would be
ridiculous to identify Hitler's elique
with the German people and the Ger
man state. History teaches that Hit
lers come and go, but the German
people and the German state remain."
The Times comments that we must
give the German people themselves
reason to hope that if they do reject
their present leadership they can ob
tain a peace under which they will
be permitted to live in honor and
freedom. "Stalin's lesson in diplom
acy is one from which British and
American leaders should profit.", I
feel that Dr. Loudon might profit
from a more anti-fascist and less anti-German
attitude.
Carey DeWitt Eldridge
let us ask him to rearrange his sense
of values somewhat, or else reserve
himself to the field of his political
interests. It is extremely unfortun
ate that Mr. Harris' article should
ever have been written to give lib
eralism the black name of conscious
Philistinism. ,
Cameron Murchison
To The Editor:
Have you read "The Academic
Myth" which appeared in the latest
Magazine issue? If not, do so; for
you will find it the surprising work
of a notable campus figure, here guil
ty of flagrant taste and poor judg
ment. He unfortunately reveals him
self as a rather sophomoric young
man who has let his zeal for reform
run away with his good sense. The
point is this : that he has apparently
forgotten the fact that the war is
being fought to preserve the very
cultural values which he describes
as lacking in "flesh and blood," as
being unrelated to the war effort.
The "decrepit volume of Keats and
the romantics" will endure long after
the war is over.
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Let us remind him too that men
like Richmond P. Bond and Raymond
Adams are doing a genuine job of
keeping alive basic values of the past
in the student's mind, things which
will have meaning and purposiveness
far more" lasting than iconoclastic,
unreasoning "war-related" educa
tion. , '
Although this young man's story
contains much that is worthwhile,
To The Editor:
I remember the Carolina Mag three
years ago when it was the campus
orphan. People who contributed to
the Mag in those days were looked
upon with the same sort of suspicion
that we now have for Playmakers. I
have watched the Mag climb up from
such a sorry plight to its present
status a magazine combining inter
est, photography, humor and literary
talent into a single edition. To me,
the Mag has kept pace with the cam
pus life; it has adjusted to the rapid
- tempo of our present day. We stu
dents owe Henry Moll a debt of grati
tude for his determination to make
the Carolina Mag the student's mag
azine. O
We gave Henry and his Mag staff
that show of gratitude the other day
when we voted to keep Tar and
Feathers in preference to the Mag.
We patted him on the back and said,
"Keep it up, Henry, and work harder
and faster. We appreciate what you
have done."
, Of course, if we really prefer a
few pages of cartoons and suggestive
jokes to the Mag we have a right
to say so. When my mother comes to
the campus to visit, I can see myself
showing her the Old Well, Graham
Memorial and saying, "Here, mother,
is our only campus magazine. Just
browse through it and notice the wit
that prevails here on our campus.
Oh yes, we college students put our
spare time to a good advantage."
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Well, Mr. Mag Editor, you see
what you are working against. It
is so very true to life, however.
Beethoven composed immortal music
and yet died in poverty and unac
claimed. Robert Fulton was in dan
ger of being murdered for perfect
ing the steam boat. The English
people turned upon Joan of Arc and
burned her at the stake.
Before you go down under the
swarm of irresponsible trampling
feet, let me thank you for a hard
earnest, sincere effort in the right
direction.
Sincerely,
Dan S. Martin.
To The Editor:
Henceforth, when you address edi
torials "to the students," would you
kindly eliminate me from the illiter
ate who flocked to the CPU poll and
on bended knee . . .
Bj Ben McKinnon
The library i3 literally plastered
with "keep quiet" signs. Upstairs at
the civilian defense information desk, "
many signs warn students against
talking too freely and revealing in
formation to the enemy. But down
stairs in the main lobby is a stand
with newspaper clippings on one side
and four posters on the other side.
The most outstanding of these posters
is the one to the far right which an
nounces in flaming red letters, "The
Enemy is listening. He wants to
know what you know keep it to
yourself. The poster next to this one
is a map showing the naval power
of the U. S. and revealing in exact
figures just how many auxiliary
ships, submarines, destroyers, cruis
ers, aircraft carriers, and battleships
that we really have. The map below
it shows the same thing about the
British navy. The third map shows
the man power reserves of the war
ring nations, the amount out of every
hundred men in our labor force who
will be selected by the army and the
shift in man power, 1940-1942. Yes,
sir! The library is really practicing
what it is preaching ! !
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The annual freshman-sophomore
banquet held at Flora McDonald Col
lege in Red Springs last Saturday
nightwas quite an affair. The usual
strict dating rules of the college were
abandoned , for the evening and
couples were allowed to stroll around
the campus after the program was
concluded. The happy couples were
even allowed to sit in cars parked on
the campus with only one condition
affecting their little intimate chats
interior lights in the cars had to
be kept on !
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Monday night the radio club held
it's regular weekly meeting. Among
those present were Ann Anthony and
Larry Dale; For some unknown rea
son, Mr. Dale had apparently fallen
behind in his payment of dues. Miss
Anthony took it upon herself to col
lect them. She began to ply Mr. Dale
with such questions as, "Why can't
you pay up now" and "Come on and
pay up." Some guy in the back row
quipped, "Now I know what the 'fem
inine touch' is!"
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You'll have to hand it to them, the
Sound and Fury ticket salesmen were
persistent fellows. Lovely Mrs. Welch
relates that one of the canvassers
came up to her information post in
South building and offered her tick
ets. "I can't buy any right now,"
Mrs. Welch replied, "Come back lat
er." He did five minutes later!
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From our "daily" file: Two weeks
ago, the New Bern Sun-Journal ran
a picture of the sponsors for the raid
winters dances at N. C. State. Be
neath the picture of these 5 beautiful
girls was this cryptic caption, "Their
submarine blasted out from under
them during an attack on an Atlantic
convoy, these German sailors, above,
managed to escape from the wrecked
craft and start swimming toward the
British destroyer which scored the
hit. The picture was just received.
The submarine was reportedly one of
three sunk by the Allies during a
recent five-day battle between the
convoy and the enemy. The airplane
photo, right, shows a British des
troyer standing by to rescue the crew
of another U-boat put out of action
in a different engagement." My,
My, you State boys are rough with
the girls !
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The As Long As You Read 'Em,
I'll Write 'Em Department. Our
best friend, the little moron, climbed
in the streetcar the other morning,
strolled about middleway, and found
a seat. The motorman rushed back
and said, "Look here.. You can't
ride this bus without paying." "But,"
gushed the little moron,. "My name
is Crime and Crime never pays!"
voted for the abolishment of our
campus Mag.
Naturally enough, we all want the
humor element presented in a student
publication (a purpose that the Mag
has been achieving of late), but even
so, the vastly more important campus
material should be represented.
Can anyone deny that this type of
a magazine is much more necessary
and useful to a University or that
another school exists which does not
have a campus magazine in prefer
ence to a "strictly humor alone" pub
lication. We get newspapers on Sunday. We
like the funnies. We've seen papers
without funnies, but never funnies
without newspapers.
Yours truly,
Manny Krulwich
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