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THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1912 PAGE TWO OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CAROLINA PUBLICATIONS UNION Ozrnj-a Caxfssx. Stltak Una - NORTH CAROLINA Pnhlishfid OP THE UNIVERSITY OF . Editor days. daily except Mondays, periods sod the Thanks- Christmas and Spring: hcli- Bessy ZxiTorK Bucxr Hjlkwxed Jdanagvng Editor JJtuineeo Manager .Acting Circulation Manager Associate Editor Entered u seecnd class matter at the pest cfSce t Chapel HiTT, N. (X, under act cf Maxell 3, 1879. 1941 Mbrr 1942 Associated Cb!!e6ce Press National Advertising Service, Inc. AZO Maotscm Avt MWTMX.N.T. SCB3CKXFTX0X RATE3 f L50 One Quarter $3X0 One Yeai AZZ signed article and column art opinions of Vto writers themselves and da not necessarily reflect the pinion of the Dan.T Tax Hxzx For This It sue: News: HA YD EN CARRUTH Sports: EARLE HELLEN Editorial Boaks: Mac Norwood, Henry MolL Columnists: Marion Lippnscott, Waiter Damtoft, Harley Moore, Elsie Lyon, Brad McCuen, Tom Hammond. News Editoks: Bob Heke, Pan! Komisaruk, Hayden Carruth. Assistant News: A. D. Currie, Walter Klein, Westy Fcnhagen, Bob Levin. Ezpobttes: Jimmy Wallace, BiHy Webb, Larry Dale, Charles Kessler, Burke Shipley, Elton Edwards, Gene Smith, Morton Cantor, Nancy Smith, Jule Phoenix, Janice Fertelberg, Jim Loeb, Lou Alice Taylor. Photoqufhe2: Hugh lfcrton. Assistant Photographies: Tyler Nonrse, Bm Taylor. Spcsts Eums: Harry HaDiugswurth. Night Sposts Edttoes: Earie HeDen, Mark Garner, Bill Woestendaek. Spcsts Sefobtiss: Ben Snyder, Stud Gleicher, Thac Tate, Phyllis Yates. Advixilstn'Q Managers: Jack Dube, Bill Stanback, Ditri Bnice. Ousham RrPEESXNTAxms: Marvin Rosen, Bob Bettman. Local Adtestising Staff: Jimmy Norria, Buddy Cummin gs, Richard Wiseberg, Charlie WeilL Betty Booker, Bill Collie, Jack Warner, Stan Legmn, Dick Xeraer. Office Staff: Bob Crews, Eleanor Soule, Jeannie Hermann, Bob Covington. Typist: Ardis Kipp. Circulation Office Managers: Rachel Dal ton, Harry Lewis, Larry Goldrich, Bob Godwin. TO- O ALLIES... You must be used to the cut above by now. It is a cartoon of the two f eudin' gentlemen of last quarter who have lately turned allies. Reason: the birth of the New Magazine, which with the Legislature's sanction last week, put a final end to the feudin mags as they were both abolished in favor of the New Magazine. At this action, we were content because for four months, ever since the idea of one magazine was aired, we have been In favor of combination. For after careful investigation we found that the two current magazines would not be the same publications next year. Financial facts proved that they would be cheaper and smaller than the Carolina Mag and Tar an' Feathers that the cam pus has been reading. Investigating further, we found that the students could be served one-third more cartoons and photos if both the mags were REBUTTAL ... By Ben McKinnon From an editorial in yesterday's Tar Heel, have been cut these sentences which are a misrepresen tation of facts. "Apparently Ben McKinnon is putting student government and the campus to a lot of trouble just to satisfy his own curiosity. . "Yesterday when he handed the petition of over 400 signatures to Bert Bennett, president of the student body, McKinnon confessed that he knew the necessary 1750 students would not vote, that he just "wanted to see how the vote would come out." . "We question his present attitude toward the student body vote." If the editorial writer had read the front page on Tuesday's Tar Heel he would have seen that I was accurately quoted as having said, "As the situation stands, I was almost on the verge of dropping the whole idea realizing that it would be practically impossible to get the necessary one haif of the student body to vote on the issue. But so many students have told me that even if the petition did not go through, they really wanted to see how campus opinion stands on this important isue, that I have determined to see it through." This is exactly as I explained the situation to Bert. It is not I alone who wants to see how the vote will come out, as inferred by the editorial, but The other day we were ambling it is the Student body who wants to see how the down the basement hall of the Phi the weary wisher ... By Hayden Carruth Most prominent feature of yester day's DTH was the bold-faced front page editorial ingratiatingly headed "Apologies. Contained within was a straightforward letter by Roland Parker disavowing Daily Tar Heel statements that he had advocated abolition of student government, and a long-winded, sticky bit of apologe tic verbiage dished up by the editors. Beside the fact that the correction, as it was written, displayed poor journalistic taste, the story behind the offense i3 one of interest un diminished. Roger Mann, recently elected Di Senate speaker, as usual plunged headlong into his task with high am bitions and, as usual, cast aside much - of the ethical in his strivings. His task: putting the Di, most decadent campus organization, on a firm foot ing; his method: publicity, legiti mate or otherwise. Mann has been long schooled in the tactics of dramatic publicity; his presidency of the IRC prepared him for the task. Circumstances connived to abet his cause. The regular DTH managing editor was sojourning temporarily in the infirmary while' the rest of the staff muddled through with confusion. The scene was ad mirably set for cut-throatism. Reporter Klein, youthful and im pressionable (he who was so im pressed by an afternoon with Harris that the whole-campus Free Browder movement cracked about his head) has been Mann's aide de camp since . mid-fall quarter. He was admitted ly inducted into IRC membership for needed publicity breaks in DTH news columns. With the staff in chaos, Mann and protege plugged the Di, with Parker as victim. News stories claim ed that Parker would demand aboli tion of student government at a Di meeting. Posters, liberally splashed over the campus, definitely implied the same, although careful wording saved Mann whenthe crisis appear ed. Roland Parker's whole Work at the University, before and after his ac ceptance of a position in Dean Brad Shaw's office, has been the further ance and strengthening of student government here. The Di stories and posters were direct slander, criminal in an off-campus court. across the desk . . . vote will come out. This fact, it seems to me, has been definitely proved by the signatures of over 400 people 50 more names than were needed to a petition which remained up for the short combined into one. The fact that together next time f Friday through Monday. year's magazines would have eight more pages than the single New Magazine does not seem im portant because those extra pages must go light on engraving. So we believed and still do that maintaining two separate magazines would mean giving the campus two "B" products and that a single grade "A" publication would be more attractive to the student body. Today, tie students will decide whether the Legislature's decision was a wise move. The allies above, the Carolina Mag and the Tar an' Feathers have strangely joined together to battle the Legislature's New Magazine today by a referendum of the Legislature's action. But again, the "two magazines" for which the allies are fighting are not the .two magazines of this year. They are two magazines drastically re duced in amount of pages, cartoons, and photo graphs. ,"One magazine" would be a 36-page publication I get somewhat riled, myself, at editorials such as this. o Editor's note: We apologize for riling Mr. McKinnon on this one particula r point. We con cede that the information from which the edi torial was written was inaccurate and incom plete. THE MARCH OF CAROLINA . . . Jwo years ago, NROTC unit installed. One year - ago, course and graduation requirement speed-up. Six months ago, OSCD established. Five months ago, CVTC under way. Four months ago, informa tion center set up and dormitory "bull sessions" scheduled. Three months ago, state panels radiate to all centers, air raid and red cross classes start ed. Two and a half months ago, emergency com mittee prepares to insure good war government. Two months ago, first blackout. One and a half months ago, dance legislation cuts expenditures. with one-third more photos and cartoons and com- Three weeks ago, total blackout. Today, mass parable in blending of material to the first try CVTC drill. And in two weeks the Naval air school the sample "Baby-Esquire" of a few months ago. begins grinding out 1,000 pilots a month. Carolina It would have both the Tar an' Feathers and the on the march. Carolina Mag staffs working on it, and salaried Yes, although it may not have been as dramatic positions for both, McKinnon and Meyer -of the as the brief word picture intimates, the march of abolished humor and literary mags. Daily Tar Heel headlines has told development Today the "completely literary" and the "com- rung by rung of a sleepy college town to a busy pletely humor" magazine supporters, James Cox collegiate war center, a song as martial as if the and Eric Josephson from the Mag and "Ben Mc- tones of trumpets had sounded every note. This Kinnon from the Tar an' Feathers, ask us to go to is the story of the times, and each paragraph, the polls, and by referendum nullify the New Mag- even each word has its counterpart in every cen- azine and bring back two. ter of the nation, metropolis or country hamlet. However, we would like you to decide for your- And this is the story that will unfold tomorrow self and, like the referendum supporters, urge you night at the pageant, titled accurately "Carolina to go to the polls today and vote for what you Meets the Challenge." Carolina has met the chal- think best their proposal or the Legislature's lenge, and, while the challenge continues to hold New Magazine. sway at each new turn, Carolina will continue to It is your decision to make. . meet and meet it with action, hard and fast. Few - ; can know all the angles of this far-flung project. IN PASSING Material' had to be gathered from a hundred sources to get all of Carolina's war activities writ Note to the Board of Education: Now that ten into the script. It's all there, however, briefed you've abolished Easter" Vacation, what are you into a stirring history of the times in Chapel Hill, planning to do about Spring Fever? The Detroit there for all students to see and hear tomorrow Collegian.' night. Bete House when we noticed that the door to the huge York safe was open. Determined to observe the mysteries of the vault, we unobtru sively crossed the corridor and peer ed into the dimness. There, hardly discernible, were four well wrapped automobile tires. Shame! It is with a mingled sigh of relief and a tang of sorrow that "we saw the magazine issue go the way of all issues brought before the Legisla ture. Having found the hotly con tested issue both good filler for this column and having been pressed by the promoters of combination to in clude bits of propaganda, it seems sad that all is said and done. Ah! but wait. ... t o Following the campus-wide criti cism of Leon Henderson's speech, the men of the CPU were more than happy over the reception that Sena tor Harry Truman received Thurs day night. It has been many a month since we have heard a man shoot straight from the shoulder, say his bit, and allow his audience to under stand that he did not know the an swer to a question the quick way. A sincere, inherently honest man, Tru man impressed all that he was in Washington to serve the people of the nation first and Senator Truman secondly. If there were 96 Trumans in the Senate, the people of the U. S. could rest assured that their inter ests were being regarded in every is sue. . The other day, Juanita Sinclair was in the Lounge of Graham Me morial picking out a tune on the sel-dom-in-tune piano. The job was to make up a song for her pharmaceu tical sorority. The words had 'been written, but the tune was a bit more difficult. As she was engaged in melodious labor a gentleman came over and ask ed if he could help her. She explained her difficulties and he helped her write the melody and write it down in the even measures demanded by custom. When the words had been set to a suitable tune, he told her that if the song pleased her sorority, she might bring it to him at the Inn and they would work out the music for the piano. She inquired whom to ask for. It was Clarence Adler. Juanita's sorority has the honor of a song which was. written by one of America's leading musicians. TarHsDeids OSCD Record Against Columnist's Attack To the Editor: In the haste to get his column off to meet the deadline, Mr. Walter Damtoft, of your newspaper, .des cribed a picture of the OSCD in yes terday's Daily Tar HeeL He cited visiting his home in Asheville, where he saw men and women learning first aid and bomb decontamination. Af- ter showing us how patriotic his home town has been, he then des cended upon the OSCD in all the fury that Among the Damned could mus ter. There are, however, several things that Mr. Damtoft has left out. Among these is the fact that he could have found out with a mfnimnTn of inquiry that civilian protection, training, air raids, etc, is but one fourth of our entire student program. He com pletely overlooks the job we have done in our morale this year, as well as in the fields of consumer research, curriculum conxmitees, in recreation la Carrhoro, in carrying out two air raid black-outs, in getting a ham ra dio coarse available for over 105 stu dents, in organizing bull sessions which affected approximately 250 students a week throughout the quar ter, information bulletin boards which were erected in six dormi tories, and an offer to every Air Raid warden, as well as anyone else (including Mr. Damtoft) to take first aid courses. O For Mr. Damtoft's benefit, it might be well to point out that due to an inefficient state civilian defense or ganization up Tmtfi a month and a half ago, no training material was available in North Carolina. The OSCD was the first agency in Chapel Hill to receive a complete set of pamphlets describing training pro grams. It was thought wise, as it still is, that all training programs on civilian protection should be insti tuted through the town organization. Hence, the pamphlets were turned over to the town authorities. When we had posts open for some of the 75 students in April, only two stu dents came to register for the cours es. Upon investigation by this of fice, the rest of the students -interviewed "just didn't have time" to go to classes twice a week to learn firr. aid. Perhaps next year will show a greater willingness in the part cf the student body to take these train ing courses. The OSCD wants criticism badlj. It asks only that the people who criticize know what has been done, and that the criticisms be in the form of suggestions for improvement, I is easy to condemn from ignorance. It is difficult, indeed, to swallow un fair criticism from the ignorant. There is one more thing: the OSCD this year started from scratch. It was one of the two colleges in the country even to think of establishing in the fall a student defense office. Its main job this year ha3 been to break the ground for the future, when students for the duration might develop, expand, better integrate its activities than we have done this year. We admit to many mistakes and have not been zs thorough on several projects a3 we might have been. We ask only for a fair and honest appraisal, when our day of reckoning comes. Thank you for your first rate co operation. - Sincerely, Loub Harris, Coordinator, OSCD it happens here . 9-5:00 Campus-wide referendum on magazine question. Voting at 10:30 Both CVTC units to hold mass drill. 2:00 Graham Memorial directors to meet in the Grail Room. 5:00 E. P. Coffey continues his series of crime lectures in Graham Memorial. . 7:00 Dr. B.- Swalin will address the North Carolina Symphony club in Hill halL 8:00 May Court Kenan stadium. rehearsal in 8 :50 Dr. T. Smith concludes the famous Weil lectures in Gerrard hall. hi i If t j - J" 1 '04--v - T . IMenadl. i? HnaeiiDay? They're taking no chances Day and night thonsanda of civilian volunteer, at Army antKor Jd obsenrauon i posts report Aircraft Flash Message to Army fiber centers-by telephone. From to information, each planed ZT T m" maP'ed o operation, boards mch as the one shown above-by telephone. Shonld checking unportant part m the defense strategy... in warm-, endangered coramaniUeS...in mobilizing civilian defense units" SSr aorities - tem. Thj, . . 6 te'ePhone facilities used by the air defense ' 13 bDt antter Pl of a war-time job well done. Ui ft
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