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For This Issue:
News: BOB LEVIN
Sports: MARK GARNER
OsTTLLE CAMPBSLL
Bos HOKB
JSditor
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William Schwartz
Henkt Zaytoun
Managing Editor
-Associate Editor
JSusiness Manager
Acting Circulation Manager
Editorial Boakd: Mac Norwood, Heary Moll, Walter Damloft.
COLUMNISTS: Marion Lippincott, Harley Moore, Elsie Lyon, Brad Me-
Cuen, Tom Hammond, Marie Waters, Stuart Mclver.
News Editoxs: Hayden Carruth, Bob Levin, Walter Klein.
Assistant News: Westy Fenhagen.
Reporters: Paul Komisaruk, Billy Webb, Jimmy Wallace. Larry
Dale, Charles Kessler, Burke Shipley, Elton Edwards, Nancy
Smith, Janice Feitelberg, Helen Eisenkoff, Frank Ross, John
Temple, Quint Furr, Ed Faulkner.
Photographer: Hugh Morton.
Ass'T Photographers: Tyler Nourse, Bill Taylor, Karl Bishopric
Sports Editor: Mark Garner.
Nhht Sports Editors: Earle Hellen, Bill Woestendiek.
Sports Reporters: Ben Snyder, Thad Tate, Phyllis Yates.
Advertising Managers: Bill Stanback, Jack Dube, Ditzi Buice.
Durham Representatives: Charlie Weill, Bob Bettman.
LOCAL ADVERTISING Staff: Betty Hooker, Dick Kerner, Bob Crews,
Eleanor Soule, Jeannie Hermann.
Office Manager: Marvin Rosen. Typist: Ardis Kipp.
Circulation Office Managers: Rachel Dal ton, Harry Lewis, Larry
Goldrich, Bob Godwin.
Case for A Western Front
By Eric Josephson
On Monday night the IRC devoted
its meeting to a discussion of all
phases of a Western Front to be con
ducted by the United Nations in 1942.
Two speaker presented both sides of
the question and after a lively debate,
the club defeated the proposal that a
second front be opened up in the im
mediate future by a vote of 14 to 12.
Reasons for this opposition were gen
eral misconceptions concerning the
possibilities for a new front in Eu- ,
rope, fear of taking such a chance,
and the feeling that it was not up to
the civilians to decide the issue any
way. The last reason mentioned was
unfortunate. When life or death,
victory or defeat may depend on
whether Germany is attacked from
the west or not, then it is obviously
of tremendous importance to soldiers
and civilians students especially in
cluded. Clemenceau once said that
"war is too serious a business to be
grindstone . . .
... so ...
Dear Bucky:-
what he does next year as vice-president of the
student body. Steve can do a good job. I'm
hoping he'll buckle down and win back some of
the favor he lost this year.
o
You have the toughest job on the campus.
Well, it's yours. After eleven months of work
on the Daily Tar Heel comes time for me to turn
the paper officially over to you.
It's been a wonderful eleven months. There
were times when I didn't care what happened.
There were several hundred letters of criticism You've got to work on the Honor System. You've
to every one of compliment. Only yesterday I got to work for the poor boy. You've got to work
received a letter that started out "Dear Horace for everyone but yourself. There will be times
Greeley" and ended up by giving me "Hail when you want to quit, but you'll come back even
Columbia" for the letter I had written to the poor stronger. You'll get plenty of criticism on all
boy who didn't like Carolina. But as usual the sides. You'll come to know what it means to be
guy who wrote it didn't have guts enough to cussed and discussed by a majority of the stu-
sign his name. All he could do was gripe. dents.
Student government this past year has been You'll have a good staff to help you.
excellent. Truman Hobbs and the Student Coun- Bob Hoke will make a fine managing editor,
cil did a wonderful job. The Inter-Fraternity He has the personality to meet people, and he
Council rose to power under the able leadership has a 'nose' for news. You'll find him a most
of John Thorp. Bobby Gersten, as president of valuable asset. Then there's Haydon Carruth.
of the Monogram Club, did much to place the Old sleepy Hayden, the guy who didn't think the
athletes in a favorable light before the students. Tar Heel was worth a damn last year. That guy
Roger Mann and Ridley Whitaker held up the car write, and he knows what to write about,
prestige of the IRC and CPU by bringing out- Keep in close touch with him for he'll be in
standing speakers to the campus. All in all it valuable to you. Another mistake I made was
was better than it has been in several years. not knowing him better.
0 Paul Komisaruk, Walter Klein, Westy Fen-
' iit OA , T . , hagen, Bob Levin, Billy Webb, Jimmy Wallace,
About the Student Legislature. As I have seen Larry Dale CharIes Kessl Burke ghi j and
the legislature, work I have felt that there ex- Walter Damtoft. These guys will be the back
lsted m this body a bit of uncertainty more bone of yoUr paper. They did loads of work for
on the part of the members than on the campus. me, and they'll be twice as good next year. Pho
tte are both-agreed that Ferebee Taylor has tographers Tyler Nourse and Karl Bishopric, al
been one of the hardest workers on the campus, though not up to Morton standard yet, ivill take
He took over the legislature at a time when it a majority of your pictures. In the business de
was faced with many difficult problems. He con- partment you'll find Bill Stanback, an easy going
ducted the meetings as they should have been feiiow wn0 won't crowd you with too many ads.
conducted But at the same time I feel he would Zaytoun will be back on circulation. ,
have , made a better speaker had he taken a
slightly different attitude toward newspapers.
He told me on numerous occasions he didn't care 1x1 dosing I'd like to thank Meyer and Schwartz
for them; that he thought their approach was for doin wel1 two of the hardest jobs on the
wrong. But I used a wrong armroach with a nur- PaPer- Meyer, as managing editor, kept the cam-
pose. The first month I was in office I tried to
be half-way nice to certain campus big-shots.
In doing so I discovered the Daily Tar Heel wasn't
doing the campus any good. Neither were the
big shots. Most of the BMOC's thought more of
their titles than they did in carrying out the
duties that went with them. I made several cam-
pus leaders mad at me personally but after
I criticized them openly they started to work.
Doing their job well meant more to me than
their friendship. Right now I think I have their
friendship, and I also think they did a good job.
I think that I should also clear up the Liter
Dormitory situation of last fall. I think that
was one of my big mistakes. I shouldn't have
criticized the council. To me now, that is the
toughest job on the campus. , It is impossible for
the council to work as it is now set up. First,
there were too many people' who composed the
council. Second, it was next to impossible to get
dormitory boys to work together. George Hayes
has more to him than a friendly smile. He
worked hard and long with the council. He tried terday.
pus well covered on the front page. He was
always on the job, and could make news when
there wasn't any. Schwartz, as business manager,
kept us out of the red. Which is something when
national advertising took the nose dive it did.
As I leave I want to thank those who put me
in office. If I disappointed them, I'm sorry. I
ran the paper as I thought best, mistakes and
all. I considered it a personal honor to serve the
student body and the university.
Journalistically yours,
Orville Campbell
IN- PASSING ...
Recently sent home by doctors because of
serious illness, Stud'Gleicher is well on the road
to recovery and expects to be up and about soon.
YEARBOOK PLUS . . .
A distinct credit to Charlie Tillett and the ,en
tire staff of the Yackety Yack is their publica
tion, 1500 copies of which were distributed yes-
to make it a powerful body, and his efforts would
probably have been rewarded had not the Pearl
Harbor incident taken place. You should work
with next year's president, Moyer Hendrix, and
try to revamp this important body.
There's one other organization I've been dis
satisfied with The University Club. Under
Steve Peck the club did not live up to what had
been done in previous years. Perhaps. the poor
showing of the football team had something to
do with it. But there were other times, such as
Coach Wolf's leaving for Annapolis, that the club
has done some good work. That is also water
under the bridge. I can't say that Steve Peck is
the one to blame. .I'll tell you that after I see
By Bucky Harward
Biggest single job in Carolina stu
dent government was completed by
Ferebee Taylor Wednesday night
when he secured for the Sudent Leg
islature from the University admin
istration a grant of modified, but
adequate, control over student fees.
If for no other reason than that
Taylor has stuck out nine hellish
months of legwork, detailed investi
gation and scathing criticism from
know-it-all fellow officers, he de
serves much credit. ( But those nine
months have produced the biggest
forward step in student government
since the establishmen of the Legis
lature itself.
v Constant bone of contention and
divided possession for the past sev
eral years has been the matter of
student fees. The administration has
been hyper-sensitive to its responsi
bility to the Board of Trustees for
the $13.70 collected through the Uni
versity business office from each
student annually. Late last spring
legislative leaders conceived the idea
of a blocked fee in which all the sep
arate fees publications, student en
tertainment, student government,
Debate Council, student union
would lose their identity, then be ap
propriated to all campus organiza
tions as the Legislature saw fit. The
student assembly would have the
power to tell fee-spending organiza
tions just how much to spend for
what.
Acclaimed because it placed cen
tral authority in one body and made
for a more equitable distribution of
student money, the plan quickly
passed the Legislature and the stu
dent body, was scheduled to go before
the University Board of Trustees.
But it was buried alive in the sum
mer by the Student Welfare Board,
had almost expired when Taylor took
it back up last fall. Since then, he
has worked unceasingly to get for the
Student Legislature what power the
administration, ultimate source of
all student government power, would
grant.
It has granted a lot.
O
Best points of the plan as it now
stands is that the Legislature can
set up machinery to exempt students
from all or part of the student fees
either because of their inability to
pay or because they- cannot derive
benefits from the fees. Previously,
many students who had a right to a
refund either got the run-around or
else had to plead abject poverty to
get the refund. v
Another excellent point is that the
Student Legislature can now cut stu
dent fees, authorize the collection of
the difference, then appropriate the
money where it will do the most good.
Campus organizations not directly
to the Legislature for these funds.
The new plan still does not include
the right of the Legislature to de
mand that fee-supported organizaT
tions spend certain amounts for in
dividual budget items. It will still
not be able to tell the PU Board how
much to give for magazine" engrav
ing. But it can control the organiza
tions more indirectly by cutting down
fees and freezing surpluses.
That this budgetary autonomy was
not secured by the Legislature is
regrettable. It indicates that the
administration'is still a little leery
of the youngest student government
organization on the campus
Legislative leaders for the com-
With-its format changed, the Yackety Yack
for this year is an annual that should be an ex
treme source of pride to the entire University
as a complete and entertaining summary of the
activities of the University for the year.
Few students realize the thousands of hours ne Jrear need only to prove that they
of work that go into the preparation of such a ca" udirge their present powers
book. To most, it is just a'book that suddenly StZ
appears. Yet it has required nine months of hard doubts,
work to make it "appear."
We do not think we are at all presumptuous Coed Senate Meets
when we take it upon ourselves to extend the
thanks and gratitude Of the whole Campus to . he Coed Senate meets today at 1:30
Tillett and his cohorts for the product of their llJ
year's labor. All members are urged to be present.
left to the generals" and on May 10,
Churchill welcomed the expression of
public sentiment concerning a second
front. iThat ail the people begin to
consider this problem is therefore
entirely justified.
O
In the first place, is the opening of
a second front necessary? It defi
nitely is and for some very import
ant reasons. ! Unless such a front
is developed, we risk losing the whole
war. That is, unless the hard-pressed
Russian armies, are relieved by
' some sort of a diversion. If however,
the Russians are forced back to the
Urals or defeated by the full might
of the Germany army, then the Ger
mans and Japanese can join forces
in the Middle East and our cause
will be lost, or at least, made in
credibly difficult.
The point is that the Russian bat
tlefield is the crucial front today,
and it is only fair that the British
and Americans share the fighting. A
Western Front would shorten the
length of the war to the extent that
victory might be possible in 1942.
And now, it would be the heaviest
blow that could be dealt the Japanese,
in other words, serving a double pur
pose. Also, it would greatly boost
the morale of the conquered peoples
of Europe and at the same time
weaken the spirit of the German peo
,ple. But the most important reason
for opening a second front is that
it would provide the Germans with
the two-front war which they fear
so much and which Hitler has so
often said would mean the destruc
tion of Germany. If Germany is de
feated, Japan ultimately falls, but
we can work to beat Japan and still
lose the war to Germany. Without
a doubt, a second front in Europe
is a necessity.
O
But is a Western Front possible?
It is quite possible since the situa
tion at Dunkirk has been entirely re
versed. At that time, a small Brit
ish army with an equally small RAF
successfully withheld the full might
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Today, however, according to Churc
hill, there are 1,750,000 trained and
equipped British first-line troops
and the RAF has superiority not on
ly over England but over the Chan
nel and also over Western Europe.
And what is most important, th
full German military might is no
longer situated in France, but is main
ly occupied in Russia, with only gar- r
rison troops and a limited number of
planes in the West. English and
American production of war materi
als alone far surpass what Nazi Ger
many can produce. England is still
the greatest naval base in the world
and her and America's fleets can
easily control the sea approaches to
an invasion of western Europe. The
much-publicized shipping bottleneck
can actually be removed if all unnec
essary shipping is utilized and nav
al protection added. We have, there
fore; the means to establish a West
.ern Front.
A Western Front means at least
a military decision and possibly vic
tory in 1942. Why wait any longer?
Let's strike now!
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