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3?AGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL No Bricks I he eary By Hayden Carruth and Sylvan Meyer twa ia a lot of background and even more foreground to the heavy penalty inflicted night before last for a rushing violation.. Who the fraternity was doesn't matter. Except for the chance votnTirAs of time, place and accident, it might have been any of many of the Carolina fraternities. What the off ending fraternity got, it deserved. But it has not been alone in its of- fense. In years past, the Interf raternity Council has complacently rocked along without too much to worry about. There were enough pledges then to go around. Minor, sometimes major, vio lations of rushing rules drew monetary fines if they were re ported. Usually they were not. Fraternities had developed a genial tolerance for their mutual violations. That was before the war. ' Now the freshman class is smaller, the number of men finan cially eligible for fraternities smaller still. Carolina chapters have been hit hard by the draft. This year's rushing season may either sustain or cripple many fraternities. Nobody wants to be" crippled. : - Greek-letter men started this summer to rush freshmen en tering the University. The summer Council made rules against it. The rushing continued, a few cases were reported and fined. When school started a few days ago, the competitive sap began to rise and so did the number of violations here on the campus. The fraternity penalized happened to be caught. Members of the Council and its executive committee have at least realized and not too soon that the competitive sap could make this rush ing season wide open. So the Council has done the only intelligent thing it could do. It has inflicted a compromised penalty on the house caught and tried. It has announced that precedent or no precedent, in the future offending fraternities will be liable for a penalty infinitely more effective than the monetary fine the restriction or sus pension of rushing privileges. Two birds would be stunned with one stone. Fraternities can afford several $25 fines much more easily than the possible loss of several pledges. Freshmen, who share the responsibility now for observing rushing rules, would be deprived for an appropriate period the privilege of pledging the fraternity they wanted. Strict, yes. But necessary too. Otherwise, the open season which might result would prevent freshmen from making a considered and unbiased choice, make a farce of a none too strong Interfraternity Council, stimulate enough bitterness between . competing fraternities to blow to hell the combined front they need to weather the war. Finale for Inefficiency The Student Safety Council has a job to do, a damning record to live down. Up until late this summer, that student government agency had done worse than nothing. It had angled for more publicity than Sound and Fury, issued student licenses with the efficiency of the Orange County draft board, developed the filibustering talents of student legislators with a two-by-four bill. Few students know that on the last Saturday of last spring quarter, the Board of Trustees came close to prohibiting the use of student cars on the campus. It would have been a damning knock at the independence of Carolina student government. For tunately the motion never got to the floor. Still faced this past summer with the possibility of a ruling from Trustees, Bert Bennett and new chairman H. D. Webb got to work, sent out an effective letter urging students not to bring back automobiles, and with the aid of Secretary Ickes rationing programs found less student cars. back this fall. The danger of a trustee edict is still possible unless the Saf ety Council makes good its promise to enforce careful driving or to deprive student violators of their cars. Last winter quarter the DTH shalm proclaimed in lurind type the virtues and greatness of what this writer came to call the Office of Stu dent Civilian Defense. The prin ciple reason for this overdone pub licity for an under-done organiza tion was Lou Harris, student coor dinator, a man who, like LaGuardia, is always news. Consequently an nouncements, drives, campaigns, and general palaver boiled day after day in the DTH columns until Joe Col lege felt noticeable tinges of nausea at the first glimpse of his morning paper. All this but nothing more. The organization crumbled; interest ed students palled and fell away ; Harris carried on CPU business in OSCD offices; and the only activity came when Army officials forced the issue and called a blackout. Harris appointed Hall Partrick student coordinator when graduation time came last year. Partrick, quiet, likeable, cross-country man and in tellectual, is capable. Four F in the Army, he is sincerely desirous of pushing the war effort. The OSCD is definitely not the place to organize war efforts, in the conventional civi- lian defense manner. Students are too transient; their days too full. Effective organization of the student body for blackouts and air raids is all that can be expected. The organization, however, is the most judiciously placed for coordina tion of all campus activities. NOSCD should, perhaps, be the student rep resentation in problems of housing, food, etc. OSCD is best able to coor dinate informative and intellectual activities where the war is concerned. The Di, Phi, CPU, IRC, Debate Council, Library, dorm bull sessions everything that has anything to do with the student and the war should come under the loosely administra tive jurisdiction of the OSCD. I shall watch, as will many others, the development of OSCD this fall. Whether OSCD asserts itself and as sumes the propel position early in the year will be the responsibility of Partrick and his aides. They should get busy but quick. H.C. Not even the most iconoclastic of campus gripers could find error m the convocation address delivered by Frank Porter Graham yesterday. On the other hand, the speech by Dr. Graham, a man noted for his ability to create order out of chaos, a man long touted for his cogency and perspicacity, shed a rare light of reason on the dictatorial muddle poodled together by curriculum plan ners. A calm request for sanity under duress, the review of Carolina's war changes, new courses, new faces, physical and spiritual alterations, rang hollowly against the cold facts. Here are the facts. Students that want to take advan tage of wartime courses find that conflicts arise with required studies. If they want a diploma they must undergo pre-war schedules or they don't graduate. Modern innovations in curricula must also mean modern . outlooks, elastic rulings from administrative deans. We are hamstrung by anachronis tic requisites. Carolina has met the challenge, Dr. Frank. Have we bitten off more than we were prepared mentally to chew? S.M. SATUBDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1942 . . a. Prnmisesivo quarter To Future Rushing Offenders ' u Osborne, president of the Interfraternity Editor's Note: Here BucK inv0ving direct violation of the rushing Cnuncil. issues details on a case CouneU iast Thursday night. ,1ps The case is timely. It was tneu, y rules, ineca aiumnus of a campus fraternity picks THE FACTS OF THE CAb15 time waS during Freshman Orienta up six freshmen in a nearby town. freshmen around in his station tion week. The alumnus, ca"yl"terIlity brothers all of whom were active wagon, met up with four ol ms q boyg the freshmen and the in the campus fraternity. 1 . fe where they ate and drank active S S dispersed. for some two hours, ine g f fraternity men and the frater- DECISION AND PENALTY. The acu nity they represented were go i y nibited from rushing the six ternity involved was fined $100-00 and P freshmen involved for the first three day OBITER DICTUM: The P.e or in the light of the gross lenient penalties in the past may h The penaity represents the xtess of the' violation not extrem acCording to the facts and Council's determination of a fair pun certain extenuating circumstances .oft . The Council has in case a person over a period of hibit a fraternity from PIeding J '"f f fternity a fine not exceeding twelve months and the power to lJ.Theen the only penalty placed $100.00. in the pasthe larjr power to pro on fraterm ies over periods of time has never been hibit pledging or initiating Persons Because this power has exercised in given that it might be never been exercised nor any is r to its fuilest extent, exercised, the Council felt th -'J rule violation, would be despite the grossness of the particular ru g unfair. gXX of a rushing ing on the assumption that the worst ; po - - "cSrSl " now, official and that in the immediately ensuing rush week and in the f uture it w exercise Hs full powers in penalizing all rushing rule y.ola UoL wHhout hesitation because of past policy r preceden the magnitude of a violation appears to the Council to make th.s exercise ol its powers nece&aai. Artists in Nation's Armed Forces Paint Actual Military Life as They Live It Just One Gripe Strangely enough, students are not as a rule griping about the new physical education program. But then maybe it's not so strange. Perhaps the draft boards are breathing down a lot of necks. Perhaps students are just beginning to understand, after watch ing the gruelling training which the naval cadets submit, what Dr. Graham means when he says that physical fitness is essential to total war. We have only one complaint. There are some students who because of night jobs cannot get in bed until after midnight. The period they had intentionally left vacant at 8 o'clock they wanted to sleep. But physical education classes were peremp torily slapped there as they passed through the tally line. If the department would rectify these few cases, all the student body but a few incorrigible nonconformists will appreciate for the first time in three years the big job the physical education staff has set out to do. fje Batlp Car The official newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.UU lor tne college year. 1941 Member 1942 Pbsoctated GoHe6ate Press EPRSSENTBD FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 Madison Ave. New York. N. Y. chicato Boston Los Anaius San Fbaikisxo BUCKY II AR WARD .... - ..-..-..Editor Bob Hoke - Managing Editor Bill Stanback - Business Manager Henry Zaytoun - Circulation Manager Associate Editors : Henry Moll, Sylvan Meyer, Hayden Carruth. Editorial Board : Sara Anderson. News Editors : Bob Levin, Billy Webb, Walter Klein. Reporters: James Wallace, Larry Dale, Sue Feld, Sara Yokley, Walter Dam toft, Janice Feitelberg, Burke Shipley, Leah Richter, Frank Ross, Sarah Niven. j Sports Editor: Westy Fenhagen. . , Sports Reporters: Charles Easter, Ben Snyder, Bill Woestendiek, Phyllis Yates. Advertising Staff: Charlie Weill, Bob Bettman, Marvin Rosen, Betty Booker, Bob Crews. Circulation Staff: Rachel Dalton, Larry Goldrich, Tommy Dixon. News: WALTER KLEIN FOR THIS ISSUE: Sports: BILL WOESTENDIEK By Nancy Smith The men in the army do more than peel potatoes; they paint them. They do more than drive jeeps over hot dusty roads; they paint1 the things they dream of doing if those jeeps were their own. These are the subjects of the coming art show to be held from October 1-to 21 in Per son Hall. Made up exclusively of the works of service-men, the show coming to Chapel Hill has two sources. . One section of the show is made up of the work of members of the Field Artillery Replacement Training Center at Fort Bragg. The other group of paintings are winners in the contest sponsored by Life maga zine exclusively for service-men. More than 75 works by 25 artists will be shown in the gallery. Some of the artists in the FARTC exhibit like Pvt. Karl Fortess, holder of a Carnegie International Honorable Mention have painted professionally for years. Others like Pvt. Harold Collins, who was a ship yard worker, and Pvt. G. Schmidt, a German refugee, had never tainted before. One colored artist, Corp. Doyle McKenzie, has two paintings in the show. All the work was done during free time and gives a good picture of what army life is like. There is a big range of subject matter, KP being the most widely done. There '- is even an "Army Still Life" done by Corp. George Horstick at the request of his mother who wanted to see his Army eating utensils. The picture's from Life's contest are just as varied. First prize of $300 went to Pvt. Robert Burns for "Troop Movements," a canvas in which he does not try to depict de tail, but to get the "real feeling of strong men cramped and sprawl ing in human attitudes." Burns, only 25, has studied five years at the Yale School of Fine Arts. His picture is more like a pattern but still, a pattern that is being re peated in many different ways over the country. And these pictures do depict scenes the country over from "On the Seventh Day," which looks like a. New England scene, to "Practice March S. C." which shows a negro sharecropper's home. Even .foreign lands are represented as in the pic ture titled simply and meaningfully "Iceland Spuds." There is plenty of humor in these pictures too. One of the most whim sical is "A Soldier's Dream" which is one of the old fairy stories in modern dress. It shows a beautiful damsel in chains guarded by a "monster," a giant armored tank. The knight-at-arms-to-the-rescue is a soldier riding, not a gallant charger, but a plucky little jeep. "Street Scene," which appears to be laid in the southwest near ( a saloon, shows the M. P.s at wrk. "Asleep Under the Mess Hall" is another one with a touch of humor. It shows a soldier asleep near a garbage can with a skinny alley cat on top of the can craning its neck to stare at the soldier. And then there is "That Green Back Dollar," showing leisure time activities by Pfc. C. L. Hart man, Jr. whose work is similar to Benton's. All in all, according to advance re ports, this show promises to be most interesting because it will show the humorous as well as the serious side of army life and will present old scenes in new ways such as the picture of the Carolina share cropper whose land is shadowed by marching troops. On the Hour ... l:00--Spanish reading examination, to be given for School of Com . merce students in 312 Murphey. 3:00 Carolina meets Wake Forest at Kenan Stadium. 9:00 Order of the Grail holds Foot ball Frolic. Remnants ... From the scores announced by the German forces attacking Allied Arctic convoys, it would seem that the Fuehrer sends his boys out drunk. This would account for figures on sinkings that are twice or three times the actual number. ffi painter nam eel SarrmgJ Brush! . Said "Here is our job, and it's RUSH ... Buy War Bonds so fast That Hitler can't last, And the Japs will collapsa in the crashT" Ja TTeLr aheUo tCHXe nd II$a HizoMtoX Put at leut 10 V 1 pcMcat o your py Ijr mk Into Vac Stamps K eeping Tab I wonder if you've seen the new physical regulations for draft boards. They've come up with a new way of giving physicals. They get all the applicants in one room, undress them, and. then the doc touches each one. If you're warm you're in 1A. They don't test your eyes anymore, they just count them. They get all the applicants togeth er and ask them to raise their hands in the air. Then the medico counts the hands, divides by two and says, "you're all in IA." Hugh Morton, back in town, for the weekend, before enlisting in the Army photographic corps, com ments on the football season with the following: "Until inflation gets so bad that money won't be worth a damn thing, Duke is sure to have a good football team." Incidentally, it is not true, as has been rumored, that my fingers leave my hands while I am typing this column. For the first time in history local swains had a legitimate excuse to walk their dates home by way of Gimghoul and the Country Club road last night. The Navy blocked off Raleigh street, giving us just a bit of compensation. We wonder what played in the Forest theater last night. Suggestion for the PU Board: Why not solve the problem of Yack ety Yack editor by resorting to Caro lina's favorite device of combina tion and combine the Yackety Yack and Cloudbuster. Added thought: With Stud Gleicher Why not change the name to Ack Ack for the duration? We wish to report that we have finally solved the rooming situation. We have a very lovely little room out in town. It's not exactly in town, but rather a little way out. The phone number is Greensboro 9041. We catch the five A.M. stage coach to class each morning. The view is pretty nice, however, and on a clear day you can see Chapel Hill. Seriously though, it's not such a bad room after you get used to the buses running through it. Why the room is so small that the rats run around hunch-backed. We're using a post age stamp for a rug. Every time my roommate opens the door, the door knob rearranges the furniture. As a matter of fact, it isn't exactly a room . . . it's just a closet that made good. Everytime I open the bureau one of the drawers gets in bed with me. I wouldn't mind it so much if only the landlady would take that "Bell Telephone" sign off the door. The rent is pretty cheap and the landlady says I can have all the time I want to pay it. As soon as I do shell let my mother out of the dun geon. After all, how long can she hang by her thumbs? We hear tell of a football game in Kenan this afternoon and no doubt we'll all be out there to see the Tar Heels make up for the last two sea sons by opening up a second front in the Wake Forest line. See you at the game. Jeeves, my raccoon coat, pennant, and gin . . . PEN REPAIR MATERIALS GETTING SCARCE MAY SOON BE IMPOSSIBLE TO OBTAIN! : vv.-.-.-.i...... j&vjsv 9 A'MMAS 0 O Imagine writing term papers with a quill! You may be unless you protect your pen from wartime failure. Repair parts are scarce. And that's what makes amazing new Parker Quink with solv-x big news. This sensational ink discov ery eliminates the cause of most pen failures . . . ends gumming and clogging of inferior inks . . . cleans your pen as it writes! Get Quink with solv-x today. Rich, full-bodied, faster -drying-Quink gives a new zest to writing. Don't ask xor ink ask for new Parker COPn. IHt, THE PARKER ,tH COMPAHT NEW PARKER QUINK is the . only ink containing soJv-x. 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