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WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1492 PAGE TWO (hue Daiio Tar (Si V OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CAROLINA PUBLICATIONS UNION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Published daily except Mondays, Examination periods and the Thanks riving, Christmas and Spring holi days. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. 0, under act of March 3, 1879. 1941 Member 1942 Associated CbHe6icite Press MPH1MMTVO FOIt NATIONAL ADVtWTIWNO WY - National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative A 20 Madison Ave. New York. N. Y. Cmcafo bottom Lot Aaatus Su fMactac Subscription Rates 1 1.50 One Quarter $3.00 One Yeai AU signed articles and columns an opinions of the writers themselves,, snd do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Daily Tab Hex. For This Issue: News: WALTER KLEIN Sports: EARLE HELLEN Obyillh Campbell Sylvan Metes Editor William Schwartz Henby Zaytodn Bucky Habwakd Managing Editor EBusiness Manager Acting Circulation Manager : Associate Editor Editorial Board: Mac Norwood, Henry Moll. - Columnists: Marion Lippincott, Walter Damtoft, Harley Moore, Elsie Lyon, Brad McCuen, Tom Hammond. News Editors: Bob Hoke, Paul Komisaruk, Hayden Carruth Assistant News: A. D. Currie, 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, Jule Phoenix, Janice Feitelberg, Jim Loeb, Lou Alice Taylor. Photographer: Hugh Morton. Assistant Photographers: Tyler Nourse, Bill Taylor. Sports Editor: Harry HoUingsworth. Night Sports Editors : Earle Hellen, Mark Garner, Bill Woestendiek. Sports Reporters : Ben Snyder, Stud Gleicher, Thac Tate, Phyllis Yates. Advertising Managers: Jack Dube, Bill Stanback, Difcri Buice. Durham Representatives: Marvin Rosen, Bob Bettman. Local Advertising Staff: Jimmy Norris, Buddy Cummings, Richard Wiseberg, Charlie Weill, Betty Booker, Bill Collie, Jack Warner, Stan Legum, Dick Keraer. Office Staff: Bob Crews, Eleanor Soule, Jeannie Hermann, Bob Covington. Typist: Ardis Kipp. Circulation Office Managers: Rachel Dalton, Harry Lewis, Larry Goldrich, Bob Godwin. THE WEARY WISHER '. . . By Hayden Carruth , A BANG-UP WAV 70 PSOVE YOU'RE A FJK!?H'D Dr'Y'p NATIONAL SAFETY COi Si IT'S YOUR CHANCE... AMONG THE DAMNED... On last Saturday and Monday, the Navy went 1 to the trouble of sending Lieutenant King and With the current school year drawing to a an aide to Carolina to give any information de- close, we have directed our eyes toward some of sired, to students contemplating enlistment in the programs that were inaugurated, this year the new Navy V-l program. During these two with the intention of seeing just how much they days, at best, 150 students went to hear what-, have accomplished. The one that caught our Lieutenant King had to say. glance first, was one that had received probably We have since wondered what the answer to more publicity than any other organization on this lack of interest can be laid to. Almost ev- the campus. Yes, it was the OSCD. ery student says he is anxious to help the .gov- Looking at the OSCD, we remembered a two- ernment but wants to finish school. Lieutenant day registration period when hundreds of stu- King had an answer to that. Almost every stu dent has at some time or other expressed the desire to get a chance to get officer training. Lieutenant King had the answer to that. We are not drumming up trade for the Navy, for what we say about Lieutenant King holds I just as true for Major Snyder who was here in the interest of the Army Flying and Ground Forces. Just what do you as a student expect? Do these men have to come individually to your room with iron bound promises of a commission to interest you? dents were enrolled in its ranks. We remember being given a blank with sonje thirty, subjects on it and being told to check the one j that we wished training in. We remember working at a desk, as a non-director of the OSCD, enlisting some of these hundreds of students, who, by all outward signs, indicated that they were anxious to learn something to do for civilian defense. Now we wonder just what they have learned or have been offered after that "hectic and publicity-ridden campaign., We have heard of no auxiliary police training, no first aid training, no anti-incendiary training, in fact we have heard nothing of any training except perhaps air-raid . Sooner or later every male among you will warden training and we question the worth of have to go into some sort of service if you are that for the wardens were given no instructions physically able. This war calls for a huge army 0r training as to what to do in a real air-raid. and navy reserve. You will make up part of it. But how do you want to serve in it. Do you want to take advantage of your college training to help you win an officer's rating or would you rather sit back and wait on the draft board. We imagine you prefer the former. Just what was the reason for drumming up the OSCD. , ' After returning home from spring holidays, we were a little ashamed of just how little had been accomplished here. There, mothers were in dustriously learning first aid, not the society Then take an interest in these officers who training burlesqued in many papers and maga- come here to explain the plans that will allow zines, but plain, simple, essential first aid train- you to finish college and get a chance at a com- ing. Best girls were working four and five hours mission. Take a little interest in getting in the a week learning the mechanics of an automobile branch of service that will enable you to best in order to do ambulance and emergency driving, serve your country. They weren't just being shown a disassembled Don't ask your room-mate how the Army de- motor They were actually tearing it down and ferment plan works, or just how V-l functions, rebuilding it step by step themselves under a He doesn't know. These men the Army and Navy mechanic's eye. We saw fathers learning ef fee send to Carolina are experts and can give you tlv anti-bomb training by qualified experts, accurate information and answer your questions. Perhaps it is not possible to offer such things Sure they're here to get you to enlist in their to students at Chapel Hill. Maybe Chapel Hill is particular branch but they've got something too small to rate experts to teach them. If so, worth your consideration to offer and they Will why.isn t the 0SCD abolished instead of hanging tell you the truth about it. You merely have to f ir.e in a sort of false S101 and bein Pinted at stack one plan against the other and go in the -as what Carolina is doing for the war effort. If one that suits you best. the whole natl0n 18 dom as much' God Plty ltl Or don't you give a damn. O JUST CURIOUS... The most obnoxious propaganda we have seen around Chapel Hill in many a day appeared yes terday morning plastered on trees and buildings Apparently Ben McKinnon is putting student and scribbled on class-room blackboards. Such government and the campus to a lot of trouble phrases as "Abolish Student Government" and just to satisfy his own curiosity. "Student Government Condemned" appeared ev- v00fDiaw hr,j th wf?nr. of erywhere. Mr. Roland Parker was described in' over 400 signatures to Bert Bennett, president of the student body, McKinnon xonfessed that he knew the necessary 1750 students would not vote, that he just "wanted to see how the vote would come out." Now, we don't question his conviction, that two separate magazines should be maintained, al though we are directly opposed to his opinion. We don't question his right or the right of any student to effect a referendum on a bill passed by the Student Legislature. But we do question his present attitude toward the student body vote. As long as McKinnon believes that the student body is interested enough in the issue to turn out and vote, we have no criticism to make. But ' when he announces that he knows a majority will not come to the polls and then makes it neces sary for members of the Council to spend some 40 to 50 man hours holding the polls and count ing the ballots to satisfy his own curiosity , we get somewhat riled. ambiguous terms as favoring such a move. He happens to believe in exactly the opposite. If the Di Senate must resort to such catch phrases and misleading statements to get an audience, then it has ceased to serve any purpose. It is perfectly all right to discuss the reasons why student government might be abolished, but to create the impression on the campus that it is in imminent danger of being abolished merely to get a crowd is an unpardonable propaganda trick. Heil Di. IN PASSING... letters to... To the Editor: In an editorial in Sunday's Tar Heel the campus was urged to accept the legislature's action on the com bination magazine. I would like to question this statement. Is it the legislature's position to tell the stu dents what they think is best for them? Or is it up to the legislature, as a supposedly representative body, to ascertain what the general opin ion is on any issue and act accord ingly? There are a lot of students, in fact I dare say a possible majority if they will take the trouble to vote, who prefer the two separate maga zines to a combination magazine. The literary magazine has built a repu tation for itself and has a follower ing on the campus. There are many people who enjoy the creative and the experimental type of literature that it features. The same can be said for the humor magazine. There are many who look forward' to the cartoons and the type of humor that can always be found in, it. And then there are a lot of students who equally enjoy both of them. None of these favor a combination maga zine. So why destroy a good thing while we still have it? The combi nation' magazine can only combine the worse features of the former magazines ; the humor will not be as good and the literary part will not be as good as that found in the two separate magazines. Therefore, would it not be better to keep the two separate magazines as they have been in the past, although they would have to be smaller for the time be ing, rather than to combine them in to one magazine which we would find, in general, to be unsatisfac tory? Yours sincerely, Joe W. Kennedy To the Editor: I have seen the light. In the past I have been a disciple of Satan Henry Moll and have sup ported the "combination" idea with all my vigor.! But I have seen the light. I have . got religine. I would now like to support the contention that two mag azines are' better than one. I don't care a damn whether or not we can afford to keep up the quality of two magazines because of the national emergency and necessary financial cuts. I still want my two magazines. Also, I would like to suggest a rather sensible idea which no one seems to have thought up yet. I would like to propose twp Yackety Yacks for next year because the Ac tivities Section (which is serious) just will not mix with the Class Pictures (which are funny as hell). In addition, I would like to suggest two editions of the Daily Tar Heel next year because I am convinced that serious news stories cannot mix with funny features. Or better yet, perhaps we should have two editorial pages because certainly the editorials and the serious columns have no place along side of "In Dubious Bat tle," "Across the Desk" or even "Gyre and Gimble." If possible, I might also suggest that E. Carrington give us two class "B" movies instead of Hedy Lamarr and her "Class A" stuff, because I know this is what the students pre fer. I realize this is destroying a prece dent but nevertheless, the more pub lications we have, the more editors we will keep happy, and, what is more important, the more money we will spend. Goody, goody. Therefore, I advocate two Tar Heels, two Yackety-Yacks, and two magazines for next year. Harley Moore. The Navy needs about 50 girls for Coeds at the University of Vermont sewed white uniforms for ski troops in the universi- technical and scientific aides. They'll ty's ROTC unit ' tae amost anv011e wn0 as na( one or two years of chemistry or physics. . The openings are in arsenals and ord- Colgate University students picked Veronica nance plants at DoverN.J.; Wat Lake, screen actress, as honorary queen of their r"" m.; clcilLu,' Ohtol winter party, describing her as "an ocean of emo- st Louis, Mo.; and Birmingham, tion, not a lake." Ala. The salary is about $1600. Results of the latest Gallup poll, released Sunday morning throughout the nation, indicate that the majority of the American voters are willing to accept a two per cent federal sales, tax, but will reject one of three or five per cent. George Gallup, direc tor of the American Institute of Pub lic Opinion, has annexed an aura of infallibility about his enterprise, and many there are who hold his findings truth, while others, perhaps sadists, wait for the time, when he will pull a Literary Digest. In any case, even On its face, the present poll presents its own inac curacies. Of the total tapped, only about six per cent acknowledged ig norance of the subject or had no opinion. 'Also Gallup's release shows that a great number of the poor voters favored the tax. Poor voters are usually the uneducated, through no fault of their own, and therefore would be that element of the popu- , latiori least likely to be conversant with the complexities of public fi nance, and least likely to be aware of the inequalities and injustices that may be wreaked by the sales tax system. Obviously these people did not know what they were vot ing for. , I would be the last to claim under standing of public finance; I am too little versed with the science so ad mirably cultivated by our own Dr. HeerJ I can, however, represent a few facts that may .be culled from any elementary economics book. The sales tax is not equally appor tioned among income levels through out the nation. It is a well known fact that the poor man makes many more and smaller purchases than the wealthy. Therefore, although the tax might theoretically be two per cent on the dollar, the tax on ten $.10 purchases would be $.10, or ten per cent on the dollar. Throughout the course of a normal year this in equality would mount to sums stag gering for the poor man, nipping his already close-cropped budget at the outset. , The rich man, on the other hand, stocks his bountiful larder with large purchases, and usually lets his ex penses accumulate until the month ly bills roll in. He pays two per cent on his purchases much more often than the individual in the low income bracket. O The second outstanding fault of the sales tax plan is the impossibility of efficient and just administration. The collection of the tax is necessari ly left to the individual merchant. In metropolitan areas where most es tablishments are large enterprises, scientifically managed and largely departmentalized, the management- must keep careful .accounts for his own interest, and the state can check up on total sales and total taxes with out much difficulty. In rural locali ties, on the other hand, small busi ness does most of the retail trade. Books are inaccurate, unscientif ical- ly kept, and often non-existent. Un scrupulous dealers utilize shady tac tics to make the best of the sales tax, sometimes refusing to let purchases accumulate on a bill and charging tax on all' sales, no matter the a moiint. Chapel Hill provides ample proof of this practice. O These are two of the defects of the sales tax proposal, now exercised un , justly in several states and many mu nicipalities. To put such a scheme on a nation-wide basis would be crim inal. The war provides no excuse; revenue may be raised by proportion ate taxation up to more than the re quired amounts. The sales tax flared in Washington circles on the stimulus of Wall street, and the infamous NAM has project ed one of its most high powered, searching pressure campaigns in Congressional quarters. Bread and Butter, official organ of Consumers' Union, has long exposed such prac tices, but, too little read, it smothers under the crooning tale of manage ment. Dr. R. H..Tawney, noted British economist who spoke here Sunday night, showed that England has suc cessfully built up internal material and human resources to outdo Ger many in this war, but nevertheless maintained a high level of morale by refusing to unjustly undermine standards. This must be done here. Granted that heavy taxation is nec essary to the successful pursuance of the war, but, like the income tax and the excess profits tax, let it hit all those within its scope proportion ately. O It certainly is too bad that the round of politicians, f actionites, and statesmen who cavort on the IRC and CPU platforms have been sc sadly mired by Dr. Tawney. He proved the best of the year, though met by but a handful of those who should have been there. Why can't the rest, when they arrive in Chapel Hill, tote with them some informa tion to impart, a fluidity of speech that bespeaks intelligence and edu cation, and a manner that foils the natural apathy of Chapel Hill? H7 (g&ipasm to A CP's Jay RiebUr Report irom Wtihi&fftoa W AR . Reports filtering into the Capital from "the field" indicate that farm- ers generally are reacting favorably to 'the student farm-work plan of McNutt's Manpower Commission. The newly-created Commission is go ing to enlist college and, high school students to work on farms in areas where shortage of help threatens. Of course, the Department of Ag riculture here had already advised its field personnel to use students And -many students and farmers have been planning ahead of any Washington agency. For example, in Eastern truck gardening areas students and farmers have been working together more than two months. O Alien students in American col leges "absolutely do not" have to reg ister for selective service. All they must do is prove to local draft boards that their non-resident status is bona fide. Selective Service officials have been compelled to reiterate the ex emption of "non-resident aliens" be cause of rumors floating about that alien students are subject to mili tary service. The majority of these students are citizens of sister American repub lics, here on scholarships granted by their home governments or Uncle Sam. There is, however, nothing to pro hibit their volunteering for military service. That. ton. i v, -l the local draft board which turns over their qualifications and person al histories to the War Department for final OK. O Officials here are skittish when asked about the probable require ments for commissions in either the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps or its counterpart in the Navy (Bills establishing both organizations have passed the House.) It's a good bet, though, that a college degree will help, just as it does in the case of men. Fort Des Moines, Iowa, is being considered by the War Department as a West Point for women. Some 5,000 of them would be trained there in various war occupations. The Navy auxiliary unit would be open to any woman over 20. Grade for grade, women would receive the same pay as seamen. Duties would include decoding, airplane spotting and confidential secretarial work. JOBS ... The weatherman is likely to be a weatherwoman for the duration. Civil Service is looking for college women to fill vacancies at weather stations west of the Mississippi. ' If you're interested, go to the weath er station where you would like a job and ask for blanks. (Incidentally, some stations are still averse to hir ing women which is something you may want to know in advance.) At least two years of college work is required, with emphasis on mathe matics and physics.1 The salary is $135 a month $120 or $105 if you are willing to take less. You'll have to take a written examination. FOR MOTHER'S nAV SEND A WHITMAN'S SAMPLER NO ADVANCE IN PRICES EUBANKS DRUG CO. 1892 1942
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