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SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1942 FAGETWO ...! S r33l I a . A Msrmm rss ff H i MM ft $ 1 hi i f JMMt m M U II ffl I Si H M A tl II l l II I 21 I 11 II 1 1,1 gf It . II II I I I II H II It M - If iM f -W,,! II u ho miiion Moir nhcw . me ya I II II ILAT IWV VLAWWWII - 11 NWii i 11 Nx- w I ' I o OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE NORTH CAROLINA Published daily except Mondays, Examination periods and the Thanks giving, Christmas and Spring hob days. Entered as second class matter at the post o3ce at Chapel Hill, N. C csder act of March 3, 1879. . 1941 Member 1942 Associated (Me&de Press wmmntio pom national aovmtwno mr National Advertising Service, Inc. Collet Publishers Rtpresentath AZO Maoimn Ave. Niw Yonit N. Y. cKAe CAROLINA PUBLICATIONS UNION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF . Editor OBVUXB Campbell Stlvan Metes William Schwabtz Henst Zattoun Bucxr Hjlkwaed Managing Editor Jiustness Manager . - .Acting Circulation Manager Associate Editor Subscription Rates $1X0 One Quarter $3.00 One Teal AU signed article and columns art opinions of the writers themselves and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Daily Tab Heel. For This Issue: News: WESTY FENHAGEN Sports: BILL WOESTENDIEK Editorial Boakd: Mac Norwood, Henry Moll. Columnists: Marion Lippincott, Walter Dam toft, Harley Moore, Elsie Lyon, Brad McCuen, Tom Hammond. News Editoes: Bob Hoke, Paul Komisaruk, Hayden Carruth. Assistant News: A D. Carrie, Walter Klein, Westy Fenhagen, Bob Levin. Reporters: Jimmy Wallace, Billy Webb, Larry Dale, Charles Kessler, Burke Shipley, Elton Edwards, Gene Smith, Morton. Cantor, Nancy Smith, Jnle Phoenix, Janice Feitelberg, Jim Loeb, Lou Alice Taylor. Photogkapheb: Hugh Morton. Assistant Photographers: Tyler Nourse, Bill Taylor. Sports Editor: Harry Hollingswortn. Night Sports Editors: Earle Hellen, Mark Garner, Bill Woestendiek. Sports Reporters: Ben Snyder, Stud Gleicher, Thad Tate, Phyllis Yates. Advertising Managers: Jack Dube, Bill Stanback, Ditri Buice. Durham Representatives: Marvin Rosen, Bob Bettman. Local Advertising Staff: Jimmy Norris, Buddy Cummin gs, Richard Wiseberg, Charlie Weill, Betty Booker, Bill Collie, Jack Warner, Stan Legum, Dick Kerner. Office Staff: Bob Crews, Eleanor Soule, Jeannie Hermann, Bob Covington. Typist: Ardis Kipp. ' tt . Circulation Office Managers: Rachel Dalton, Harry Lewis, Larry Goldrich, Bob Godwin. Opinions n it - v oar u o Columns - Letters Features THE WARWON'T WIN ITSELF... EN COPRE SANO . . . THIS IS WAR! These three words don't mean very much. Think back in your mind as you read them. You've seen them so many times in the past four months that they are almost without meaning. In the case of many of us, war never had meaning. It is difficult to explain war by mere words. And it is even more difficult to imagine we Americans as a defeated nation. Conceive, if you can, an America without its cherished freedoms. Freedoms which are so much a part of our everyday life that we take them for granted. Life as a conquered people would be a hazy dream of better days, a search for something to eat and a prayer for relief from our suffering. But this can't happen here, oh no not here in America. They wouldn't attack us, not us. But strange enough, we have been attacked and the danger is upon us. The seriousness of the situation grows by the minute, but don't worry, nothing can happen to us, we're Ameri cans. The attitude of the American public seems to be: Let the war take care of itself and we'll take care of ourselves. As a matter of fact, it has been found that war is an ideal time to take care of yourself. And all the boys are climbing on the gravy train. Workers, capitalists, industries and politicians, I didn't grace them by calling them statesmen, are all getting into this war effort with both hands palm upward. With their eyes on the coming elections in stead of the state of the nation, congress re fused to pass the bill eliminating the closed shop and 40-hour week. While there is a desperate urgency for pro duction speed-up and the letting of more war contracts, congressmen take up the time of de fense "officials with constituent pleasing public utility schemes. Despite a shortage of labor, WPA projects for beautifying and improving certain state and city properties are still being carried on. WPA doesn't have the labor nor is there any need for the im provement, but the money still goes from war contracts into parks, monuments and statuary. Funds are being asked to continue CCC activi ties. The pampered young men in the CCC might .well be in the armed services or in war produc tion where they are needed. Production is still hampered by strikes, de spite promises that they would cease. Speed-up is tied in knots by the red tape of labor unions. In the ship yards paint spraying guns can't be used. Instead, days are added to the launching time while union painters apply the coats by hand. Two helpers stand around while a third person works. Steel workers in ship yards have to bide their time while carpenters are found who can erect the Scaffolding from which they will, work. Business is getting its share of the war prof its and labor is not going to be left out. Govern ment bureaus created to meet a longpast depres sion still continue to grab for themselves money which is needed for armaments. And when the fight against the Axis begins to go badly politicians and business will begin to bellow and place blame. The laborer will tell how much he has been doing and probably men tion that if the soldiers had done half as much they would have won the war in a couple of months. But if things go on the way they are, no one will have to worry. Without equipment and with out armaments, the best soldiers in the world couldn't beat back the Nazis in Russia nor keep invaders from our coast. University of Wash ington Daily. Most faculty-discussed plank of the Emergen cy Committee was that one inserted after there had been some student discussion on the campus concerning last quarter's CVTC, and also the in flux of the Naval Cadets in May. At the time it was inserted, the CVTC still had the extra ex ercise requirement to fulfill. Since then the CVTC has been exempted from the requirement, tout we believe if wise for the Emergency Com mittee to have included it as another point for candidates to have taken a pro or con stand up on. For one, it killed at the root the mild question as to the benefits of physical education. All but one of the candidates that included the point in their platform professed their belief in the pres ent system, and some even asked for the requir ed number of hours to be raised We are already familiar with the arguments of the boys who resent interrupting their activi ties to trot down to the gym twice a week. In the face of the Naval Cadet's full time program of physical education we believe, that as it is, the students are being required very little to indulge in physical activity twice a week for one hour. Especially at a time of a national war-effort, it seems foolish to us to quibble about the mini mum required hours. If anything, we would be in favor of five hours a week of physical education for the duration if the men down in the physical education depart ment could see their way possible. In this mat ter, we know that they have probably already considered the problem and that they are more qualified to answer it than we are able to. NYA'S CONTRIBUTION . . . Last November, Congress cut NYA funds to meet rising defense costs and self-help students here underwent a period of anxiety as did other students throughout the nation. If your memory can reach into the past fall, the campus rose be hind the cause of the NYA students, and soon the necessary funds were raised. Now a new menace arises. Senator McKellar has introduced a bill to Congress proposing the abolition of the National Youth Administration in its entirety. There were 285 NYA students at the University last quarter, and the elimination of NYA stu dents throughout the country isjikely to impede the US Naval Reserves program to enlist 80,000 college freshmen and sophomores a year. t A careful estimate of University expenses for one year for a state resident shows that the NYA student has a bill of $540, and he makes about '$160 from his job which is designated by University officials. The average NYA student's parents have an annual income of $1,430. With out NYA funds, the students could not possibly remain in school. The Naval Reserves new V-l program makes no financial provisions for the students enrolled in it, most of whom intend to see action in the navy, but they have to take courses similar to the work taken in naval training centers. A com paratively large number of NYA students are the foundation of the reserves program, and the NYA students comprise a significant portion of the nation's college men. The scholastic average for the., group last quarter was C plus, 113 made the Honor Roll, and 17 had all'-A records. The most potent argu ment for the continuation of the NYA program is the fact that the students being assisted will undoubtedly " benefit the country many times over the cost of their education. Their scholastic average is evidence of future usefulness. If NYA students were forced to leave school, the country would lose a large number of potential navy of ficers. The question confronting Congress is this : across the desk . . . Letter ll'l'L Lewis Condemns Writer Of '34,000 Lost at Bataan' Well, it is a lot of congratulations and condol ences that we turn from the political arena toward the books and sun bath ing for the remainder of the quarter. It was a lotta fun whether the can didates won or lost. Perhaps the de feated candidates will adopt a fatal istic philosophy and perhaps they will take a leaf from Ferebee Tay lor's and Louis Harris' book. There's a great deal of work to be done a round here so it may be that you can form an OSCD of your own. O Memorial hall overflowed election eve for the CPU's first speech of the spring quarter. There were many who expressed disappointment at Mr. Henderson's speech and then there were those who felt it to be the first speech of the year during which you had to think to be able to understand what was being said. Regardless of what opinions are being batted about the campus, Leon Henderson's address goes down as one of the meat iest of the year. Rumor has it that UP politicians have been in cahoots with the big wigs of Caldwell hall. That land slide was more than a mere accident; To the Editor: When Axis propaganda invades the very pages of the Daily Tar Heel it is time that some definite action be taken. Throughout all of last year when the Tar Heel had a definite isolationist editorial policy, there was not one editorial which even ap proached, either in outright lies or in utter stupidity, the complete brash ness of Tuesday's editorial, 34,000 Lost at Bataan. Without even blushing this edi torial declares that the President has "soothed" us. After stating that many have looked at this war as an "interesting little national ad venture," which is all too true, the writer goes on to prove that he is not only one of the worst of these but is also a victim and a dissemina tor of the fact that they have no equipment are accomplishing mira cles. This excuse outdoes Hitler's excuses to his people." After this un adulterated lie, he asks why they haven't equipment and why were men it was political science to the n'th placed in war zones without it. Well, ( degree. . Graham Memorial Thursday night looked somewhat like a combination of the United States Congress and theStock Exchange in its better days. Only Boss Cochrane knows why the peanuts; they certainly were the last touch to the dignity that pre vailed. O Heard in the Dormstores; "What happened to the Baby-Esquire " A wakening from our usual apathy, we heard for the first time the Baby Esquire versus two mags controver sy discussed around the polls Thurs day with - sides being taken both ways, some desiring two mags next year, some favoring a Baby-Esquire Combination of the two. Into the pot of the combination versus two mags, has also been added the humor mag runoff next week between Gleicher and McKinnon. Next move will prob ably be by the campus which, if indi cations are right, will either solidify in opinion behind the two present mags, or a Baby-Esquire combina tion. If opinion asks the status-quo to be preserved, then we will have two separate editors next year. If Baby Esquire comes out on top, then next year's Mag editor Sylvan Meyer and . the winner of the Tar an' Feathers runoff will probably ask the legisla ture, the PU board, or the students to select one of the two as main Editor and the other as his paid As sistant Editor, all in the interests of a combination magazine. Write your congressman now! N Labor's big boss will be presented from the platform of Memorial hall by the Carolina Political Union this Thursday night! William H. Davis isn't just labor's big boss, he's Dr. Frank's boss as well. For the many who neither under stand labor's problems nor the prob lems of the administration in Wash ington as regards labor, this is a real opportunity to get the informa tion you want from the First Lord of Labor. The question period should be pretty lively. All in all, we predict a full house for one of the best pre sentations of the year. NOTES ON THE WORKSHOP'S SPRING FESTIVAL SPEAKERS : Paul Green, Carolina's own Pulitzer Prize Playwinner will act as inter locutor in the Workshop's opening night Panel Discussion of the Spring Festival. He will be the man to snap the 'questions to our country's lead ing artists on the controversial topic, "The Artist in Wartime." The "Quiz Kids" are J ames Boyd, romantic nov elist and radio pioneer; Clare Leigh ton, Lady Friend of Sir Stafford Cripps of England and India, and is England's leading woodcut artist; Lee Simonson, Scene designer, foun der, and one of the Director's of New York's master Theatre Guild; and Dr. Clarence Adler, concert pianist and teacher of many "greats" who is responsible for the Workshop Chair man's son, Dick Adler, who agrees with many that it must have been an accident. ... people have been living in the Philip pines for a long time, and the great bulk of both the Philippine people and the Philippine army were placed c in dubious battle . By Jack Dube FLASH: A dutch warship dis guised as an island escapes from the blockade around Java . . . this makes the old one about who you would rather be marooned with on a desert island fraught with meaning. ... HILL-HIGHLITES: Jack Break stone called up WC for a date last weekend (forgetting about their va cation) and had a five-minute talk (long-distance) with the janitor on the relative merits of coeds and WC ians. ... A Carolina man was hold ing up some stewdent in front of the Washington-Dook Tavern last week end when one of his profs passed by in a car. "Ours or theirs," said the prof. "Theirs," said the Carolina Gentleman. "Good," said the ideal prof, "and drove on. ... Tony An thony is starting a movement to abolish the woman's council . . . not a bad plan in lite of the circum stances. . . . The DTH Election party was no party for quite a few of the boys . . . many a candidate (harassed by the thought of an 8:30) went to bed before all the votes were in . and woke up screaming. . . . Connie Grigsbee and associates have made a-beach resort out of the lawn in front of Smith ... it sure ain't like the old days. . . . Tiny Hutton can't . understand it, he applied for a job with Air Corps to fly a pursuit ship and they refused him. Then there is the guy who tears thru the mass of humanity at the "Y" at ten thirty, squirms his way up to the counter, orders and gets '. . . a glass of water. ... SHADES OF SARAH BERN HARDT: Will the girl who lost the Tangee Theatrical Red lipstick in No. 2 please call at our office and re ceive the same. .. . v O x, -DANSATIONS : Everybody goes to the dances now hoping to get a peek at the fellow in the "Zoot-Suit" who appeared at the Frosh-Soph dan set last week-end . The Rangoon Rassle should send a bid to Sir, Staf ford Cripps . . . teach him to jitter bug those Indian troubles away; . . . O ' OUT OF THE MOUTHS: Irvine Smith: "They can't have a revolution after the war in this country ... it's against the law" . . . thud. . .". A famous Latin Scholar: "How about doing away with eight-thirty classes on Saturday in order to conserve man-hours . . . superpoint . . . Elbert' Hutton (Again?) says he has his tents made by Omar. . . . It's the talk of the class . . . Bucky Harward fell asleep ... in Editorial writing. ... juul UKACKS: Meet Woollen 208. ... you in - Does the NYA program benefit the government to the extent the expenses would if . invested in some, other way? A large number of NYA stu dents have and will become naval officers, and the leaders of tomorrow will be, in part, pro ducts of the NYA. PTED STATES otFENSE Donoo there by none other than God or the stork, whichever way you like to put it. There have been no men recent ly "placed" in the Philippines. Anyone who has read a newspaper during the last nine years and especi ally the last three years knows that the President has continually warned us of our danger. He has fought with amazing courage against blind isola tionists who called him everything from "Dictator" to an international war-monger whose life ambition was to plunge us into "England's war." Every effort he made was met with a barrage of blind lies, hate, and in defatigable asininity. It was in his first administration that Roosevelt pleaded for the fort ification of such islands as Guam. Yet this writer has the unbelieveable brass to blame our defeats on him. Our dangerous position today is due almost solely to the isolationists, lie spreaders, Roosevelt haters, and a general collection of fools just like the writer of this editorial himself. He continues; "Governmental offic ials are comparing Bataan to the Alamo. Every man, woman, and child fought to the death in the Ala mo; Thirty-four thousand men sur rendered to the enemy" on Bataan with the comparative safety of Cor rigidor only five miles away." One little thing we forgot was to build a bridge to Corrigidor so that our men could cross. Of course the bridge would be a draw-bridge com plete with portcullis so that we could raise it when the Japs started to cross it. Then we also forgot to invent a substitute for food 34,000 people can't live on the Tar Heel's imagi nation. Then there's some foolish old military theory about not running away from the enemy without resist ing. This, however, is mere ambrosia compared with "Hundreds of mer chantmen are being sunk on our front door steps and the only reply that the government gives us is to buy more bonds so we can build more ships. We have only heard of a very few subs being sunk off our shores. What's the navy doing?" There can be no doubt that the "we" (which I am responsible for italicizing) is the editorial "we." I'll tell our writer one thing the navy isn't doing and never will even to satisfy him: they are not releasing statements every time they sink a sub. No decent navy ever does re lease such reports. They do, how ever, release totals for two or three months which can be found in the files of the periodical department in the library by those who were too busy criticizing our war-effort to see what we ,were actually doing. The writer then says we're tired of being told to wake up. Yet he is snoring so raucously that he can't hear his own alarm clock, "It is as much our duty to criticize the faults of the government as it is the soldier's duty to fight." So far we've had from this editorial no criticisms of the faults but only of the good qualities of our government as well as an editorialist's shameless display of his abject ignorance and poverty of thought process. Finally, I should like to ask: who took this writer's lollypop away from him? He's indignant about privi leges which have never been taken away from him though in his case they should be. "We are going to bed and cry for relief from our an tagonists; we are going to try in vain to shut our eyes and forget our duties, but the radio, the news paper, . . . the government, and even our roommates are going to wield the whip of duty across our backs." Crack! Yours truly, Fred Lewis. it happens here . . . . 2 ;30 Benefit tennis matches and fashion show will be held at tennis courts. 5:00 Shaw Choral Society sings in Hill Music halL 8:30 Playmakers present last performance of "George Washing ton Slept Here." Charles Ruf us Morey, Marquand professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University will be a member of the summer session faculty on the Los Angeles campus of the University of California.
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