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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1942 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL ... - 5 Eire Take time to read the article in the next two columns. It has something to do with you -a matter of nine months pregnant with the risk of a disastrous fire anywhere in Chapel Hill be tween now and next July. The fire could be in your dormitory or the private home ' where you live or at your fraternity house. It could be one of the Pre-Flight barracks or old Caldwell Hall. And unless a heavy downpour just happened to coincide with the blaze, nothing but a tincan of a fire engine, two paid firemen and 18 volunteers to stop the destruction of building and lives. Ask the students here this summer how long it took a poorly constructed high school to disintegrate in flames that the fire department and its inadequate flivver, tried to stop. Then think what a debacle might have occurred if the fire had waited two months later until one morning at 10. Whatever procrastination and fumbling has preceded the high school blaze, apparently the University administration is working hard to get the necessary $6000 from the state legis lature in its new biennial budget for its half -share in purchasing a new fire engine. But standing fiscal rules would permit the fire engine to be purchased with allocated funds no sooner than July. The administration must make every possible attempt to secure permission for purchase immediately upon passage of the budget in February. That is absolutely necessary. If at all possible, they must secure funds sooner. The dire risk of a student body of 4800 students and cadets and the Civilian population of Chapel Hill rests in their plans.t Words and Hot Air ... Editorials are the biggest waste of good words and hot air yet devised. Most people don't read edits at all. People who do read edits read them constantly, thoroughly. They waste their time. The people who write them waste their time. If you disagree with an editorial you get mad and the thing doesn't do a bit of good. If you agree with it, you think what it says anyway, and the space is wasted. When it presents a new subject entirely, you don't understand what it is talking about. The best editorials are those in news stories. This is strictly unethical. - , But highly effective. .. Such a method of presenting opinion is specially designed to warp the public mind one way or the other. Most Daily Tar -mT. edits, the opinions in Hill Review in the Carolina Mag, are so stated. Consider this a warning. It is a challenge to your ability to think independently. When you read a news story you may think that it is straight and factual. It is. But those facts are so arranged, diabolically arranged, to leave you with a definite prejudice concerning the topic at-hand. This is unavoidable on a college publication. The public itself is the cause. The public is flexible. Its mind iends like a reed in the wind of indoctrination. Student leaders despair because the public heeds not their pet ideas. This is why your news stories are really edits. More people have been quoted in college papers that never opened their mouths on the subjects than those wlio are quoted from actual text. Beware of statements such as "administration officials said last night" ; consensus 6f leaders was." Be on your guard. We can really change your mind. . Views expressed by the columnist in this newspaper are net necessarily those cf the editors who restrict editorial pinion to the staff editorials. In matters of controversy or criticism, the Daily Tar Heel permits spaco to the individual columnist's opinion and for the opinion of readers so long as the articles submitted are, in the editor's opinion, sixeere and factual; Wht 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 offxe at Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March S, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the college year. .B Mrauvnto row national AOVRftTtcti r 1941 Mrmber 1942 Pbsodded College Press Member 1942 Bucky Habwaed Bob Hottt. Bill Stanbaok.. Henky Zaytoun- Associate Editors: Henry Moll, Sylvan Meyer, Hayden Carruth. Editorial Board: Sara Anderson. . " News Editors: Bob Levin, Walter Klein, Dave Bailey. Exporters: James Wallace, Larry Dale. Sue Feld, Sara Yokley, Walter Dam ' toft, Janice Feitelberg, Burke Shipley,1 Leah Richter, Frank Ross, Sarah Niven, Bob Harris, Jud Kinberg, Madison Wright, Rosalie Branch, Fred Kanter, Betty Moore, Arnold Schulman, Helen Eisenkoff, Bruce Douglas, Jane Cavenaugh, Robert Johns, Roland Giduz, Kat Hill, Jerry Hurwitz. Sposts Editor: Westy Fenhagen. Night Sports Editor: Bill Woestendiek. Sports Reporters: Charles Easter, Ben Snyder, Phyllis Yates, Paul Finch. Photographers: Carl Bishopric, Tyler Nourse. 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""6&"" 75- - 7m" ZUtr. ky VaiUt Chapel Hill Needs Engine To Meet Threat of Fires By Jimmy Wallace Chapel Hill is threatened by fire. That threat, with the addition of new houses, the arrival of more stu dents and the Pre-Flight school, has increased in recent years to the point where it cannot be overlooked in even a casual inspection. For the second time in three years the University has included in its proposed budget to the legislature an item, "fife truck, $6000." Since the first request for a fire" truck, the Chapel Hill high school has burned, and $125,000 has gone up in smoke. The local fire department was there, but its efforts hardly slowed the blaze. By the next morning it was air over. The total cost of -fires in Chapel Hill during the past 30 years leaped across the' $500,000 mark. The University, realizing an ur gent need for1 a fire Engine to cope with now disastrous flames, is in cluding the' truck in the regular maintenance fund for operating" the school. Administration officials yes terday expressed the belief that there is a "fair" chance to get the engine this year. " Dubi IOUS With spotlights gleaming, ermine and mink wraps dazzling the eyes of those already not blinded by, the constant flash of the photographer's bulbs, an opening which submerged the brilliance of last year's Rose Bowl game occurred on Franklin street last evening, E. Carrington Smith's' emporium (better known as the new Carolina Theatre) made its debut. Everyone was there . . . jes' everyone. ..." The first ticket was bought by Walter Klein who beat President Roosevelt to the box-office by a nose. The chief -executive (Roosevelt, of course) was accompanied on this fare occasion by Lou Harris's girl Ellie. Vice Commissar Molotoff Stepped out of his drosky with a samovar on one hand, and Millicent Hosch on the otherY All Hollywood turned out en masseRay Milland was there with Ginger Rogers (Susu), Bob Hope' arrived with O. P. Charters (soso), arid Lieut. Jimmy Stewart and Helen Webb (sisi). Other luminaries were Madame Cu rie with Curry Jones, Bert Bennett with Ann Corio, arid Hobie Mc Keever with Lois de Faye (all of her). Bucky Harward and Hedda Hopper were a two-some with their pencils working feverishly. The crowd spread out to allow Tiny Hut ton and Mae West to enter, they were followed " by a party of " six ill 6 Scene of German defeat to 1914 8 Beetles 7 Prefix: not 8 Single thing 9 Genus of moths 10 Trades 11 To sheltered side 13 South-African farmer 13 Lampreys 21 Before 23 Spoor 25 A negative 27 Lock of hair 28 Timid 29 Out of date 31 Accomplish 33 Thick mud 34 Combination 35 Gallic chariot 37 Charged particle 39 Soak hemp 41 Buffalo 45 Disloyallty 48 Querulous expression 47 One who piles up 48 International games 51 Pronoun 53 Girl's undergarment 54 Pert, to ships 56 An extremist 57 Commanded 58 Among 59 A swelling 69 Prefix: half 62 Female horse 63 Long-visored cap 64 Blight Mentation 67 Rebel (slang) Fwtiirt SrsdieaU, In. When the last General Assembly met, the fire truck was being re quested under the heading of "im-. provement fund." 1 This: fund is formed by authorization of bond sales. Since no bond sales were au thorized two years ago, the im - provement fund was tossed out, , along with the fire engine. But if the appropriation were ? made to purchase a fire truck for Chapel' Hill it would be improbable that the', truck could be put in use before July. Throughout the next nine months the danger of fire, as suming that the request goes through, will not be alleviated. The . now hopelessly antiquated fife en gine will nave to suffice during this . period7 UNLESS University and town officials can do something. Any measure that can be taken to halt the current upswing in fires should be done with utmost haste. li the truck cannot be procured in less1 than nine months, town and University authorities should do everything to lessen fire hazards that now exist. hy Jack Dube consisting of Lana Turner, Mike Beam, Carole Landis, Buck Dudley, Rita Hayworth and Henry Moll . . suddenly the crowd became still. The two Weary-Wishers were giv ing last minute directions to their flock of squirrels who were to ped die magazines throughout the thea tre. . . . Around the corner from Marley's came W. C. Fields and Joan Hill headed not for the thea tre, but for Harry's (where the milk is also grade A). Everyone left the theater regretful that they must return to the far-flung points of the country, but all promised that they would soon return to the hill. . .. Fordham Fortes: Roy Little (from N. Y.) walking into the Astor Bar in his derby and dungarees and say ing hi no uncertain terms, "Whar's my grit's." . . . Fireman Frank AIs paugh saved a, cab from conflagra tion. . . '. The cheerleaders stopping en route to pick cotton . . . and everybody giving cider and cotton away down Park . Avenue ... and the game with" pennants, raccoon coats, and collegiate cheers which was held in Keriari stadium. . . , Harry Shallett to a bartender in a N. Y. bistro, "Better, give me a drink before the trouble starts, bet ter give me two drinks before the trouble starts." "What trouble ? " " "It ain't got no money." ... Battle Weary Wisher Decentralization Looms as By Hayden Carruth and Sylvan Meyer A column or two ago, a hastily composed Weary Wisher attempted to present the problem that is fac ing this University, the problem of the disintegration of community spirit on this campus. The follow ing morning colleague Ernie Fran kel cracked the Wisher for bearing down too hard on student -leaders, for accusing them of not worrying about the situation. Frankel mis understood the column, I think, be cause it was intended primarily for a presentation of the problem in all its aspects, not as a criticism of stu dent leaders or anybody else. Never theless, Frankel's punch was just. Not enough investigation had pre ceded the writing of the Wisher, an over-all flaw in most DTH copy. Since then I have tried to get further into the problem. It is a problem, a big problem. This University cannot continue to exist as it has by any stretch of the imagination unless something is done to remedy the problem. More than most, the University of North Caro lina depends for its success upon a spirit of integration arid unity among the st? dents. Here is what has been done : In Student Government the sum mer was a busy one. Never before in the history of the campus has a presi dent been beset with so many detailed problems. Bert Bennet tore out more of his fading hair from June to Sep tember than he did during pre-election week last spring. Committees were appointed, sparked with good, hard working students who burned plenty of midnight oil during their meetings. The Student Planning Board with all its various ramifica tions (housing, eating, co-operatives, etc.) , studied every detailed problem in connection with the upset of stu dent life and presented reports and proposals to the faculty. Their re ports were accurate; their proposals were on the whole correct. Here's the rub. None of their re ports or proposals were deep enough in scope. None of them touched the underlying problem of a disintegra tion of University sentiment; they all dealt with the immediate details of what to do with returning stu dents. This" is not a criticism of these committeemen. They worked hard on detailed problems that demanded im mediate solution, arid their work was invaluable." The closest they came to solving the larger aspects was the "institution of the Social committee. But' the Social committee is not adequate. So far it has only been concerned with the pfeseritation of dances and shows; its efforts have been entirely directed toward bring ing students to the campus, riot to ward making the campus reach into the lives arid homes of the scattered student body. The committee has been Of purely social function, as its name denotes. Students from Hope Valley to Carrboro will come to a campus dance or a campus entertain ment, but they will leave and take their interests with them as soon as it is over. I have heard nothing proposed to change the Social committee so that it may better exercise its functions on a deeper plane or to instigate an other, broader committee. The stu dent legislature expects to consider the' pf oblefti soon, but all legislature suggestions so far still deal only with the purely social aspects of the ques tion: how the Social committee is conflicting with the Entertainment and Dance committees. Legislative action, as it appears now, is merely concerned with making . the Social committee a clearing house for cam pus social and entertainment events and reducing the amount of red tape for this typeof work to the mini mum. That is worthwhile, of course. Red tape and co-existent functions among campus organizations, should be cut to the bone wherever possible. But, no matter how much red tape the legislature cuts away from the So cial committee, it still will not pro duce an organization that is other than social in its f unctions,that will reach to the heart of the situation. The legislature has not yet consid ered the" problem at a meeting, and still has time t?) get to the root of the .11 m Sport and Evening: Dresses matter, if it will. The Administration, also busy this summer, unfortunately blanked most of the student effort. The reports and proposals presented by Bert Bennett's committees during the summer were read and shelved. The reports presented by the Student Planning Board definitely indicated that there were nqt enough rooms in Chapel Hill to house students as they should be housed. These reports were read by all Administration heads in South building, and all sum mer long Roy Armstrong continued to blithely inform prospective stu dents that they had nothing to worry about when they got to Chapel Hill. The same board reported in writing that eating facilities in Chapel Hill were dangerously bad, and L. B. Rog erson read that report and ignored it. Almost all the proposals of the ' student committees are smoldering in South building pigeon-holes right now'. House, Carmichael, and Rog erson all did nothing about these re ports. Roland Parker, through whose hands the reports went, real ized the seriousness o'f the situation and worried in the best Parkerian manner. He submitted reports and proposals to the rest of South build ing, argued in faculty and adminis trative irieetings, got nowhere. This whole business is part of the short-sightedness and blundering ness of South building officials who have been inadequately prepared ever since the first negotiations with Washington for the Pre-Flight school here were begun. That, briefly, is the history. Here is the present situation. The prob- lem still exists, as badly as ever. It is in imminent peril of being compli cated even more seriously by the ar rival of one half again as many new cadets, who will snare more dorms and again take over the whole din ing hall. It will be impossible to open Swain hall as a dining hall by the middle of next month, when the cadets will arrive, if they do. In other words, the student body is badly decentralized now, is in danger of being even more badly decentral ized, will become completely dis united when the old students, im t bued with University traditions of . community, are jiq longer here. V Roland Parker is the only man on the campus who realizes the real depth of the problem, the only man who is really scared. The Student legislature is on the fringe of real izing the real depth as it toys with increasing the efficiency of the So cial committee, but it is still missing, the boat. Bennett arid other student government executive officials are conscientiously trying to do a good job, and they are- but they do, I think f ail to recognize the depth of the problem and the fact that it is impossible to solve it through dances and entertainments. Something has to be done, and right now before" the problem grows out of hand, before the situation gathers too much momentum. The first meeting to really consider the problem will be held tomorrow, ; called among students by Roland Parker. Something may come out of it--but it's entirely uttofficiaL That, I think, is an answer to Frankel's criticism. It is also a brief ( analysis1 of what is to come. Some thing's got td be done ! H. C. On the Hour... 8:00 a.m. All band members meet on coed field in front of Woollen gymnasium, with instruments. 2:30 p.m. Football game in Kenan stadium, Carolina vs. Duquesne. 8:30 p.m. Grail dance in Woollen gymnasium. UNC Alumni Chosen To Represent School W. " P. Kellam and Clyde H. Can trell, librarian and assistant librarian, respectively, of West Virginia univer sity, have been designated as official delegates of Carolina to represent it at the 'dedication of the Mineral In dustries building in Morgantown, W. Va. Kellam and Cantrell are alumni and were former members of the li brary staff here.
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