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FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, i942
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K e,e p I n T o u c h.
with Tiny Hutton
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE PUBLICATION UNION BOARD
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
Pufctisbed semi-weeMy during the summer quarter
except during holidays and examination periods
Bob Hoke : : : : Editor
BOB Powell . Business Manager
Editorial Staff: Paul Komisamk, Tiny Hutton, Hobart McKeever, Tom
, Hammond.
News Editors: Westy Fenhagen, Billy Webb, Walter Klein.
News Staff: Charles Easter, Phyllis Yates, John Johnson, Suzamne Feld,
Leah Richter, Leonard Meyer, Margaret Morrison, Ann Turner, Randy
Jennings, Nell Baas.
Photographer: Bob Weis.
Cartoonist: Bill Seeman.
Business Staff: Sybil Sholar, Elizabeth Lindsay, Jack Watters, Mary
Carr, Octavia Mailer.
An Example to Follow
Summertime may be an out-of-the-ordinary time to bring up
such a thing as Carolina's springtime debating tournament, but
since summer school harbors quite a few pedagogues, it seems, on
second thought, quite fitting:
In the institution of debating UNC ranks, figuratively speak
ing, in the Middle Ages.
As the set-up now stands, each high school is placed in a tri
angle and must win both the negative and the affirmative sides
of the question : winning being based on the decisions of judges
some trained and some not trained. Usually the judges are
teachers in the school where the debates take place. No one can
expect these teachers who have had no debate training and no in
struction on the query to judge fairly. The winners picked by
these judges are allowed to go to Chapel Hill's tournament where
each team progresses independently of the other. On the second
day of the contest all the surviving affirmatives are placed in one
hall and all the negatives in another. The state champions are
selected by a process of elimination. Then the winning affirma
tive meets the winning negative in the final bout for the cup.
What do we gain by segregating the negatives from the af
firmatives? According to modern debate methods, no speaker
is allowed to have any definitely prepared speech except the first
affirmative all else is refutation of what went previously.
Haven't the powers that arrange those grueling weeks of ora
tory heard of the new trends in public speaking; i. e. panel dis
cussions and such? If not, we should like to refer them to col
leges very progressive in those lines Wake Forest, Georgia
Tech, and Northwestern University.
Three years ago Wake Forest inaugurated a tournament sys
tem that outshines Carolina's so far that some of NC's leading
schools don't bother to enter the triangles but spend most of their
energies preparing for the very constructive seminar at the feet
of law profs and students at Wake Forest where debaters are
encouraged to think extemporaneously and talk conversationally.
True, the NC Handbook verbally bars all canned material, but
how is it to be avoided when in the semi-finals the negatives are
so completely oblivious to what their opponents are saying?
Debating is argumentation, and students enjoy doing it the na
tural way. After all the object of all this is not the training of
parrots, but the training of thinking individuals who can em
ploy sources and quotations only when they further their own
thoughts.
Another characteristic which causes a medieval atmosphere
about UNC's debating tournament is the judging system. Judges
have become fast in the Morphean arms before some debaters
ever began to speak.
Why shouldn't they be bored? After all most of them haven't
studied the query, having been too busy in their own respective
fields.
When the debates are judged, the winning side is never told
why it won or the losing, why it lost. The judges at Wake Forest
are law students and professors who take time to point out
strengths as well as weaknesses in the speeches.
The school which won the state championship in the Wake
Forest tournament last spring couldn't have gotten to first base in
Carolina's antiquated contest. Why? The speakers (except the
first affirmative) had no definitely prepared speeches but inte
grated their thoughts to fit the argument of the moment. (Their
training in extempory speaking gave them finese and poise which
is not to be found among the "old school" of memorization.)
Is Carolina smugly going to ignore the fact that some other
cup might be more valuable than the Aycock?
Is Carolina going to realize that these is an NC Forensic
League that is backed by coaches from the best city systems who
are out for a definite revamping of high school debating?
Is Carolina going to continue behind a cowl of self-complacency
permitting only those teams which win in the triangle to enter
the state contest when some losers in the larger systems are
far superior to winners in smaller systems?
We can't afford to seem out of date in the eyes of the high
schools of the state. L. N. M.
ENROLLMENT
(Continued from' first page)
shire, New Mexico,' Oregon, South
Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Vir
ginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming not
represented.
The total out of state enrollment is
431, a figure -which is less than half
of the 943 North Carolinians regis
tered in the second summer session.
Of the nine foreign students taking
courses at the University all are from
Spanish America with the exception
of one enroll ee from Shanghai, China.
The remaining eight make their homes
in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Honduras, Vene
zuela, Brazil, and Argentina, there be
ing two students residing in Puerto
Rico.
The charted tabulation in accordance
with the divisions of the University in
dicates that a preponderance of stu
dents are registered in the College of
Arts and Sciences. 416 were regis;
tered in the school of Arts and Sciences,
85 in Commerce, 346 in the General
College, 311 in Graduate School, 18 in
Law, 91 in Medicine, 31 in Pharmacy,
40 in Social Work, and 40 in Library
Science.
ROOMS
( Continued from first pc-pe)
ated by Administrative heads. Arm
strong indicated yesterday that the
Administration was "pleased" with the
housing situation in Chapel Hill.
The survey revealed that no room
'ing house or private home had in
creased rents. "People of Chapel Hill
should be thanked by every student
for the cooperation they continue to
give."
Results of the survey will be used
for classification of available rooms
in town and Armstrong's office has
been designated as clearing house for
rooms.
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When William L. Batt was here
last winter he made the blunt state
ment that Germany would not cap
ture Moscow. Less than two weeks
had elapsed since he had left the
shadow of the Kremlin after con
ferring with Joseph Stalin, and
England's Lord Beaverbrook on
American and British aid to the
forces of the Red Army.
A large, expansive man with an
easy-flowing, unaffected method of
talking straight at you, Batt said,
"When I left Russia, German forces
were a hundred miles from the capi
tal. I made a five dollar bet then
that they would never take Moscow.
From all reports they are even
closer now. I am still willing to
make that wager." It wasn't much
of a wager for a Philadelphia mil
lionaire, but still, he wanted to know
if there were any takers and at the
time there were none. Perhaps he
was making the stakes deliberately
low to ease some arm-chair general
into an easy bet. But more out of
respect for Mr. Batt than for what
his small audience actually believed,
he had no takers.
It was strange hearing this per
fectly dressed, high-powered Ameri
can business man talking of Joseph
Stalin, describing him as "a simple,
straightforward, stalwart man . . .
with the simple appearance of a
country farmer . . . the real leader
of the 180,000,000 Russians."
What surprised Mr. Batt most
were the demands of Stalin. He de
scribed the plight of the Russian
Army as desperately in need of guns,
tanks, planes and other war materiel.
Yet he claimed that Stalin, "... even
though grasping for straws like a
drowning man was exceedingly mod
est in his requests for aid. He knew
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he could get."
Batt was one of the most courage
ous prophets on the Russian scene.
He did not underestimate its im
portance, or minimize its intense
seriousness. But when he spoke he
spoke freely and honestly without
emotion and without rationalizing
what he saw into broad unhealthy
generalizations.
Last week Batt went to the fore
for Russia again.
Present Situation v
Now holding a leadership post on
the War Production Board, he was
in a nore favorable position to dis
cuss the present plight of Stalin's
armies. Also, he could draw on his
own knowledge and experience of
Stalin and the Russian people.
When Washington - Merry - Go
Rounder Drew Pearson voiced a fear
that the Red Armies, beaten back
beyond all hope of victory, would
make a separate peace with Hitler,
WPB William Batt remembered
what had been told him while bombs
fell near the Kremlin and declared
that he was utterly confident that
the Russians still would be fighting
effectively next Winter and that "the
overwhelming credit (in winning the
war) must go to the soldiers and
people of Russia, and to them alone."
He continued: "We Americans
can never know exactly what this
gallant Russian fight has meant to
us and our country, but I ofttimes
wonder where we and the British
would be today had not the Rus
sians fought as they had."
William Batt won a five dollar bet
on Moscow. As a prophet he is well
worth considering. Especially so,
since he is a prophet who has mosi
of the facts.
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The majority of the campus was
set back on its heel last week with
the announcement that Holly Smith
and Butch Neaves had been married
since early July. . . . the reason for
the broad grin on Bill Loock's face is
the fact that Roberta Dortch is back
with us and him this session. . . .
Virginia Hartshorn's sad expression
is due to the fact that Frosty Long
has departed. . . . Alec Parker had
more than his hands full Monday
afternoon when he had to ofiiciate a
ping pong match between Jane W el
ton and Bunny Turner,, both of
whom he has-been courting of late.
Jane won the ping pong match. Alec
is still unattached. . . . Boo Boo Carr '
is doing nobly in his efforts to make
this a non-partying session. . . . since
this colyum first spread the rumor
of Randy Jennings' engagement, she
claims that she has been stagnating
in the Chi O house. We feel a bit
honor boundabout the whole thing,
so if any of you boys would like to
help clear our conscience, drop
around and see her.
Squire Davis is getting a rep as a
gun totin' fool by those who know
him. He almost has a rep as a dead
gun totin' fool too as a result of an
escapade Wenz'dy. afternoon. Bill
Smoak came into the Squire's room
and quite accidentally almost shot
his 'head off. The bullet lodged in
the door post a scant six inches from
his head. The following morning
Squire scared the houseboy almost
white when he aimed his automatic
at him and fired. Luckily it was
loaded with a blank and. did no. more
than burn his face. ...
The Chi Phi's will be losing the
rep that so many of them have
worked so hard to get this summer.
The heavier drinkers seem to be leav
ing school. . . . the Jam Session at
the Union tomorrow night promises
to bring out the best in campus and
cadet musicians who have been idle
thus far this summer. The prime
scare at present is that some very
cute, sweet, un-hep little girl will
come up and ask, "Can you boys play
'My Devotion'?" That tune by the
way, seems to be sweeping the coun
try as well as the campus. Even
Tommy Wadden is trying to sing it
which must prove something or other.
Another of the new hit tunes is the
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LATEST NEWS EVENTS
Tuesday
RUTH JOHN
HUSSEY CARROLL
"PIERRE OF THE PLAINS"
Thursday-
HEDY
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"TORTILLA FLAT"
BETTY
FIELD
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"ARE HUSBANDS
"Mad About Him, Sad Without Him,
How Can I Be Glad Without Hha
Blues." Dinah Shore's recorded ver
sion on Victor is tops. . . . speaking
of tunes, the paratroops have re
cently adopted a theme song, "iVe
Got Nerves That Jingle Jange
Jingle." as Charlie Nelson asked
the other night, "Do you work at the
munitions factory or are you just a
chain smoker?" . . . Moo Cowhig real
ly went on the warpath Wenz'dy
night when he tried his best to get
into a fight. His intended opponents
ranged from Boo Boo Carr to John
Sasser and also included Joe Green
and Grimsley Hobbs.
Churches
Religious services will be held
Sunday at the following churches:
. Episcopal 304 East Franklin
Street Rev. A. S. Lawrence, pastor;
Holy Communion, 8 o'clock. Morn
ing Prayer and sermon, 11 o'clock.
Twilight organ recital 8:30.
Catholic F. J. Morrissey, chap
lain. Services held at Gerrard Hall
at 6:15, 10 o'clock, and at 10:45.
Jewish Daniel Daum conducting
services to be held at Graham Me
morial, 11 o'clock.
Lutheran Rev. Henry Schroder,
Durham, pastor. Services are con
ducted in the West parlor of the
Methodist Church.
The Baptist, Methodist, Presby
terian and United churches will have
a Union service, at the Baptist
church at 11 o'clock. Rev. Aubrey
Todd, pastor of the Sanford Congre
gational church will be the guest
minister. John Thomas, President
of the University YMCA will pre
side and Mrs. Phillip Schinhan will
be in charge of the music.
Cabs Exchange Rides for Tires
ERIE, Pa. (UP) Two Erie taxi
companies have evolved a unique
plan whereby they agree to barter
cab service for the good tires of
customers' cars. The two concerns
advertise they will give credit of
more than 75 per cent of the cash
value of all good tires turned over
to them.
MONDAY
FIONA who yielded to no man!
EVELYN who wanted nothing!
SUE who wanted but one man!
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