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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1942 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL Or Never "Wednesday or Thursday" we were told! Lenoir basement's Pine Room would open its doors to the student body and simul taneously slam the door in the face of the eating problem. "Wednesday or Thursday" we printed in Sunday morning's Daily Tar Heel, relaying assurance of the administration that those students who have had to endure the hour waits, the ex orbitant prices, the nauseating quality of some of the downtown food would get some measure of relief . "Wednesday or Thursday?" our reporter asked day before yesterday at South Building. Nobody knew. "Tomorrow?" he queried yesterday. Nobody knew. That our administration has been and is busy with its meet ings with the Board of Trustees, preparation of the biennial budget request and a hundred other things we know and ap preciate. We understand too the shortage of labor, the long working hours necessary for immediate completion of the Pine Room. But we know too of many students who are now unable to procure decent food within reasonable time and for reasonable prices. v We wanted only that the Pine Room be completed at the earli est possible date. We did not specify October 1. The adminis tration did. Now we can ascertain only that it does not open today, that nobody knows when it does. But we and some 3000 students for whom we serve as re layer of news would like to know. Now. One Hour Up . . we muster for our University and all the previous things of the human spirit for which she stands for the future of America and the future of freedom in the world. To this end, in this little village we will not wait ..." Dr. Frank Graham. When Dr. Frank spoke last Friday of our "total self, stripped of fat, laziness, luxury, softness of body, flabbiness of mind and will," we remember collectively writhing in our seat in Me morial Hall with a slight sense of guilt. The 10:30 coke and smoke hour had been scrapped for the war. and we remembered how we were now taking an extra heavy physical education program. But we still felt uncomfort ablewe also remembered that extra two hours wasted over a beer while the assignment went undone and we remembered how slipshod we had gone through that volleyball class to avoid the extra effort. But we recalled, that class had fallen on Saturday and we re membered we had had to take a little snooze in our psych 24 class because we had been a little tired. Saturday always had been a hard day to go through end of the week, a late date then there was always our 8 o'clock to nap in. We wondered if this were helping towards that Superman condition Dr. Frank had been talking about, and whether some of us in this little village were waiting f or we knew not what. As we sat in Mrs. Hardeman's or Mrs. Cobb's lobby and waited for our gorgeous blond to come down we wondered why we couldn't have come an hour earlier say at eight instead of nine, and why dances couldn't start an hour earlier and end an hour earlier. We wouldn't mind calling for her an extra hour early on Fri day night but she raised a fuss about being brought in an hour early so the snoozing session is still going on Saturday morn ings. Because of this we send out an SOS to the coeds to re volt against our blond and make it 1 AM Friday, 1 AM Saturday, . and 12 on Sunday. TODAY'S FILLE Campus authorities on world af- fairs "disputing claims" and grave ly discussing second fronts must seem silly to former Tar Heel boys . now fighting for their lives, and ' barely managing to hold the first front with tanks, guns, and guts. One thing that the campus misses is a good record column. Half of the so-called music authorities of last year owed their reputation to Brad or some back issues of Down " beat. We have to admit that the squir rel and nut story in the Weary Wisher was just what the tree doc tor ordered. Now if everyone would talk like the squirrel said ... maily 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, $3.00 for the college year. 1941 Member 1942 Pbsocided Golle6iaie Press IiUCKY HARWARD ......... Bob Hoke Bill Stanback Henry Zaytoun. ...... 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. Sports Editor: Westy Fenhagen. . ! Sports Reporters: Charles Easter, Ben Snyder, Bill Woestendiek, Phyllis Yates. v. Advertising Staff: Charlie Weill, Bob Bettman, Marvin Rosen, Betty Booker, . Bob Crews. 1 Circulation Staff: Rachel Dalton, Larry Goldrich, Tommy Dix6n. . FOR THIS News: BOB LEVIN RS As far as we know they haven't closed Kenan stadium at night please don't use the Daily Tar Heel offices for extra-curricular night ac tivities. Mighty good food being served in the Grill. This is no plug, line, but the truth. Meat, two vege tables, salad, beverage, and dessert adds up to a full stomach to us. On ly one gripe. We thought the head waiter was Exhibit A in the Egyp tian mummy display. Sports Sidelines two days ago predicted the Yanks to win and Cooper to be knocked out. Campus bookies had better take note and bet heavily on Woestendiek's future pre dictions. WIRI9FNTtD FOR NATIONAL ADVBItTIOlNO WT National Advertising Service, Inc. College "ubliihers Representative AZO Madison Ave. New York. N. Y. CHICAGO BOSTON . LOS AnaKL SAN FftANCISCO ..i ...Editor Managing Editor ..Business Manager ..Circulation Manager ISSUE: Sports: BILL WOESTENDIEK Wat IBttl ...... " " "" ' ' " ' 7 ." ''I ' ' .' ACROSS 1 Nice discernment 6 European herring 10 Applaud 14 Above 15 By one's self 16 Hawser 17 Biological factor 18 Brains 19 Comfort 20 Not stable 22 Large ship . 24 Jewish holiday 26 Still 27 Citrus fruit 30 Spot 32 Bounds 36 Large antelopes 38 Perceive 40 Repetition of words 41 Burn out . 42 Skirt-like garments 45 Drunkard 46 Prepare for publication 48 Sesame 49 Ore of lead 51 Meaning 53 Diameter (abbr.) 55 Furze 56 Age stT 68 Flirt ' 60 Supremacy !!,' 64 Cheers jJ 68 Pains ' ' H 69 Pert, to ends of earth 71 Thought ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE AJRlQlSlgl rJBKS E 3. KB DlsLBOlM4iI DDAgB L E C S O 1 B: 1 0 CH B IE s p ! u t "ZiRSil, TOO?!, r-Hl s HtJe r s 3 QA gtlX Pg. E MS qU E T EJL BET n dMaJp a. sibm ImIe 72 Large plant 73 Get up 74 Man's name 75 Stitches 76 Small depressions 77 Prophet " DOWN 1 Roman cape 2 The birds i 13 H 15 b p IS 19 Jo iw u-L u- To " si 777 aa 23 " " 1 1 I I I I 1 I 1 1 11 I 1 I Dtotr. bf Lolled P Shad assmg The Tar Heel's battle of the second front has rapidly evolved into some thing that can make for much dan gerous thinking and more loose talk. Essentially, it has broken down into a question of . military expediency. Now all Americans are agreed upon the urgency of a second front to re lieve Russia, but this discussion has been carried on by laymen, who, no matter how informed, are in no posi tion to quote the facts on : 1) the relative strength of Axis and Allied forces in Europe and Rus sia. 2) the actual tonnage necessary to undertake a second front expedition. 3) the tonnage available. 4) the infinite problems of supply. 5) the possibility of an advantage through waiting. 6) the cost in men and machines, balanced against future costs for the pendulum may very well swing either way. 7) the operation of other variable f actors like the attitudes of con quered people. The war has placed most Ameri cans in a strange, new, and unen viable position. They no longer have the power to make decisions if these decisions are vital to the conduct of the war. This contradicts a 150 year heritage, and US citizens now are becoming painfully aware of it. For to most US citizens, these last few months, has come an important awareness. Their war-conduct has been reduced to a Faith in their war leadership, both here and in Eng land. It is not the dumb, blind faith of the fanatic, but a sort of grim realization that they must believe in their leaders. Especially so, since war decisions are out of their hands. For many this is difficult. For some it is impossible. We must remember that some twenty million Americans voted to put President Roosevelt out of office in 1940. We must also remember that Winston Churchill has a long, unenviable Tory record, that for years he was kept from the leader ship of the British Cabinet because he was feared as a destructive force. But the fact remains that the lead ers are in office now, and conducting this war now. Furthermore, they are conducting the war on information that is denied the layman. And Winston Churchill's control in Eng land today is apparently firm, as is President Roosevelt's here. These leaders must be trusted. There is no other choice. Political figures often need prod ding, and are often politically moti vated. But in these over all deci sions (like the second front) in volving major movements and direct heads of government where we ourselves do not know the facts, it is disastrous to question their military actions and highly humiliat 3 Copper coin 4 Breach of faith 6 Palatable 6 -Located 7 Decay 8 Ones (diaL) 9 Crocbety 10 Supreme Being 11 Rich earth 12 Building projection 13 Look narrowly 21 Cares for 23 Serpent-like fish 25 Sweet cordial 27 Laws 28 Escape - 29 Morning prayer 31 A number 33 Puzzle 34 Short Jackets 35 Bristles , J 37 Squatted 39 Henfrult " , 4 43 Free " i 44 Wiser - 47 African files " 50 Military cars 52 Soon 54 Terrified 57 Founder of Hungary 69 Entices 60 Floor coverings 61 Irish society 62 Killed 63 In old time 65 Cutting tool 66 At this point 67 German valley 70 Linden FeMors S;a(Ucl, lac ow By Paul Komisaruk ing to question, for example, Presi dent Roosevelt's motives. When we question these, we . lose much of our own motive for fight ing. The American layman may still deal with problems of inflation, price ceilings, parity, and production on the home front. The second front must be left to men who understand its details. Remnants ... One of the freshmen, after mak ing the rounds of the f rats, was asked how he'd come out. "Through the back door, with a boot in my pants," replied the rushee. Doesn't Elmer Davis realize he's in Washington? The head of the OW is actually considering econo mies in his department! Mayor LaGuardiar ja, the Little Flower, had better buy a few more dictaphones, because if he keeps on acting as nasty as he has, the only one who'll talk to him is himself. If his team keeps on hobbling the ball like it did yesterday, Billy Southworth, Card manager, plans to put himself in the infield. On the Hour . . . 9:00-12:00 Seniors must pose for Yackety Yack pictures. 2:00 Legislative committee meets in Grail room. 3:00 There will be a meeting of all boys interested in becoming soph more manager of the varsity foot ball team, in Kenan Stadium. 4 :00 Tryouts for parts in the Play maker production of Arsenic and Old Lace' will be held in the Play makers' Theater. 7:30 All boys who want to serve as tag football officials will meet in Woollen gym. 8:00 Freshmen basketball candi dates will convene in room 308 of the Woollen gymnasium. FQRyiCTORY BUY UNITED STATES DEFENSE BONDS STAMPS 2 mm Weary Wisher Practical Outlook Needed Toward US Post- War Tasl Certainly a most vital factor in our war lives is discussion of the kind of a peace we desire after the war. Such thought is progressive. It boosts our morale when we have a definite goal ... if we are to die for principles we might a well know and understand those principles. But let us beware of confusing ourselves and the issue. Just as we 130,000,000 Americans cannot agree on our peacetime prob lems, just as we have farm and labor blocs, radicals and reactionaries in our ordinary legislative problems, we have them in our postwar prob lems. Each faction must air its views now. After the armistice we want ac tion, not argument ... we want that action well-directed and progressive. With all the highly intellectual bickering now underway on the prob lem of post-war settlements, we have heard only the theory of treat ment of conquered peoples. We have heard only empty air, we have heard no practical suggestions. We have listened eagerly to discussions of basic philosophies. We want to know what is going to be done, who is go ing to do it, how it is going to be directed. Here is what we want. We want humane treatment for the conquered peoples and rehabilitation of war struck areas. We want a re-education for our own people. Our own people must be strongly indoctrinated with the principles of world peace and world brotherhood. We need strong rule, but we need dynamic teachers also. The people of the defeated axis need a total re-education. A job that is liable to take several generations but one that must be undertaken if we are to prevent war f orevermore. We need an international police Campus Grapevine Despite Winston Churchill's re quest that arm-chair generals lay off the Second Front, recent articles by Columnists Harvey Segal and Sarah Anderson have proved most timely. However, they have both as sumed without reason that the Sec ond Front would be opened in West ern Europe. It is agreed by all that the oppor tunity afforded by the magnificent Russian resistance in front of Stalin grad should not pass unheeded. One -must realize that the problems of the second front are tremendous and that the uninformed layman cannot dis cuss the matter with an abundance of intelligence. It might be well to point out the several possibilities for a Second Front which faces the Allied Com mand in the Western World. The armies of the Third Reich have been stopped in Egypt; but they remain as a potential Western pincer to the German armies , moving down the Caucasus. It is entirely feasible that the United Nations can attack the Axis positions in the rear and thus combine ifre British Eighth Army in Egypt with the Iranian Army of General Wilson, which is preparing to back-stop the Red armies in the Caucasus. A victorious second front in Africa which would destroy the Axis armies would release much men and material for other fronts. There are those who rub the leather arms, cross their legs and ex pound on the Second Front in Nor way. Successful action there would mean the expulsion of German troops from Scandinavia. This would sec ure the best route to Russia by re moving increasing threats to the Arctic Supply Route. Furthermore, Finland might be easily forced out of the war and the year old seige of Russia's second city, Leningrad, ITS EASY , 'OR DEFENSE BONOS AD STAAPS t,,. with international representation. We need an . international congress with progressive members from all countries of the world, victor or van quished. We need an international government of experts in all fields. After the war Europe will be a dead continent. It will be milked of its youth, its vitality, its soil, its people. It will be exhausted. We must sacrifice ourselves in order to raise this horrible disfigured con tinent to our post-war level. The peace must be arranged by altruists . . . people with no per sonal ambition, men with only the welfare of the universe at heart. Our teachers must be carefully selected so that they will not plant bias or fear. We must distribute all funda mental needs of mankind so that no hungry mouths, no socially-diseased minds will cry for war. We must have universal comfort and prosper ity. t If the type of man we need doesn t exist, we can blame that fact upon an economy of greed, a social structure teaching a false doctrine of personal success. We can blame it on the training we have received since birth. We are prepared neither mental ly nor morally to handle such a re organization of the world. If the war continues for the end less years of slaughter and destruc tion that some of the more pessi mistic of us prophesy, we may have different ideas than we have now. We may be ready for the job we must do. But a quick peace now, unless we begin this minute the subtle task of re-indoctrinating the democratic people to social consciousness, we shall war and fight and kill and de stroy until the end of man. By the Staff might be relieved. Norway offers excellent air for attacks on German supply routes in Poland and Eastern Germany. Those who advocate a frontal at tack on the well-entrenched Nazi Channel positions must envision mass slaughter of American youth and possible failure of the drive The ramifications of such a failure are incomprehensible. It is indeed best to strike where it hurts most but it is best to put all yours eggs in one basket? Public opinion might well force a second front. Such a front must not, fail. It must relieve the Russian Armies and work toward the ultu mate defeat of the Axis powers.. Yesterday's action by the lower house of the Argentine legislature in voting to break diplomatic rela tions with the Axis Powers is good news to Pan Americanism. How ever, optimists must reckon with the . upper house which has long favored 1 the Administration policy of neutral ity pro-fascist style. Residents of Steele Dormitory were well pleased with the Building Department's quick work in install ing bath-room fixtures. The work was completed a week ago, but no one has bothered to put back the windows. Ever try taking a shower in an overcoat? Congratulations go to the Yackety Yack's new editor, Hunt Hobbs. Co operation by the campus will be more than necessary if Hunt is to put out an annual that is already behind schedule. So, when you go down to get your picture on time, just ex cuse yourself by believing that, you're helping the war effort. THIS WAY Form DS3 227 . . 19. Marshall Field. t 1 , -..
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