WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1942
PAGE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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No Row But Action
The facts on the town rooming situation were not printed to
raise a row. We were admittedly surprised that conditions, al
though not ideal, are as good as the report shows.
What the administration might have done back in the sum
mer to prevent the conditions under which some students are
now living is water under the bridge. The University must look
forward to the vast shakeup that will occur as soon as the War
Department announces plans for drafting American colleges.
Anyx post facto wrangling about what might have been done
is a little absurd.
But an immediate attempt to remedy the worst of these con
ditions is not absurd or ex post facto. Student leaders work
ing with the administration can call for adjustment of rents
from the Defense Rental Committee as soon as the ruling comes
in from Washington, can call for the Health Department to in
vestigate inadequate toilet and ventilation facilities, can work
in an organized way to get students placed in empty dorm rooms
or rooms nearer the campus.
We have the facts, wait only the action.
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Experiment Shows Students
Favor Nazis over English
By Ernie Frankel
Carolina psychologists conducted
an experiment last week to test the
social attitudes of students in the
University. The results of that ex
periment can now be examined; the
meaning of it places pertinent ques
tions before Chapel Hill's "liberal,
democratic," population.
We're at war with Japan, yet
students taking part in the experi
ment indicated a more favorable at
titude toward the Nipponese than
toward the Negro. American and
British soldiers are chasing Rom
mel's fleeing Nazis in North Africa ;
yet more favorable reaction was
noted toward German than toward
England. Russian allies are hold
ing off the swastika in eastern Eu
rope, but reaction toward the, Rus
sians was much less favorable than
that toward the Italians.
Twenty years of isolationist-directed
sentiment against "imperialist
Britain," and constant waving of
the "red herring," is largely respon
sible for the attitude shown. It ap
pears that students still can not
settle into a feeling of comradeship
with the British, still can not place
their intellectual shoes under a
Russian bed.
Average student attitude toward
Strictly Detrimental
By Bob Levin and Jud Kinberg
The sight of a bottle of nail polish
sitting on the office file yesterday
reminded us that the newspaper
business never the most stable of
trades was quivering under anoth
er change.
No longer is the Publications
Board the big wolf. We regret to in
form our readers that the copy boys
are girls now.
Copy boys are, under the normal
definition of the word, manly young
gents who are told to go out for cokes,
hurry over to the Y and ca&h the
editor's check, wangle bottles of beer
on credit, lie to coeds over the phone
and, in general, learn the fundamen
tals of the craft. In their spare time
they carry copy.
The ones we grew up with were, so
to speak, career copy boys. They
came in as freshmen and were polite
in a hairy sort of way. Their conver
sation made the older reporters blush
and occasionally, one of them would
punch the managing editor in the
nose and quit. Those were the good
old days.
But they have drifted away to de-
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The official newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the Univer
sity 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
Pbsoctofed GolIe6iafe Press
Bucky Harward
Bob Hoke
Bill Stanback.
Henry Zaytoun
Associate Editors : Hnery Moll, Sylvan Meyer, Hayden Carruth.
Editorial Board: Sara Anderson, Paul Komisaruk, Ernie Frankel.
News Editors : Bob Levin, Walter Klein, Dave Bailey.
Reporters: James Wallace, Larry Dale, Sara Yokley, Walter Damtoft, Janice Feitelbersr.
Burke Shipley, Leah Richter, Frank Ross, Sara Niven, Jud Kinberg, Madison Wfizht,
Rosalie Branch, Fred Kanter, Betty Moore, Arold Schulman, Helen Eisenkoff, Bruce
Douglas, Jane Cavenaugh, Robert Johns, Roland Giduz, Kat Hill, Jerry Hurwitz, Tiny
Hutton, Sam Whitehall, Gloria Caplan, Pat Shartle, Lee Bronson, Sol Seiko.
Sports Editor: Westy Fenhagen.
Night Sports Editor: Bill Woestendiek.
Sports Reporters: Charles Easter, Phyllis Yates, Paul Finch, Herb Bodman, Charles Howe,
Don Atran, Bob Goldwater.
Photographers: Karl Bishopric, Tyler Nourse.
Local Advertising Managers: Bob Bettmann, Marvin D. Rosen.
Durham Representatives: Charles Weill, Bob Covington.
Advertising Staff: Betty Bronson, Bebe Castleman, Victor Bryant, May Lyons, Edith
Colvard, Blanche Crocker, Henry Petuske, Larry Rivkin, Fred Brooks, Jean Herrmann,
Loom is Leedy, Al Grosner.
Circulation Staff: Rachel Dalton, Bob Godwin.
FOR THIS
News: DAVE C. BAILEY
the Italians has been that of con
tempt. Mussolini's people have been
characterized as a race of spaghetti
bending, gondola-gliding easy-going
individuals who have been taken
advantage of by Hitler.
Most significant aspect of the en
tire experiment is definite feeling
toward the Negro. Here the North
South reactions differed, showed
how regional prejudices govern
student thought. Also evident was
the effect that education has had on
attitude in the South. Those points
stressed by educators equal educa-;
tional oportunity, equal housing fa
cilities were accepted by both
northern and southern students.
The slow-working propaganda has,
at least, dented the conscience of
students; yet the Japs, Germans
and Italians are more welcome in
our homes than are English, Rus
sian and Negro.
There's room for wonder about
these, facts, about the part they'll
take when we sit down with allies
to draw-up peace terms, about the
importance they'll have in the build
ing of a new world, about the signi
ficance they have in our battle for
what we choose to call the four
freedoms.
fense jobs and the Army. Since then
some of us have never got over the
shock of yelling "Boy" and then look
ing up to find somebody in a pink
sweater floating athwart the desk
trilling "Yes sir."
"Why . . . er . . ." we would reply,
"would you like to share a coke and
if you aren't tired rewrite this story.
That is, if it isn't any trouble."
We are, to be frank, a little wor
ried over how the Daily Tar Heel is
going to thrive when it has been com
pletely done over in pastel tones.
Nothing takes the heart out of a good
reporter arguing over the phone with
a leg man so much as the knowledge
that phrases devised to scare all hell
out of the freshman are audible at
the other desk where a sister act is
going on.
We accept it all without complaint.
We are prepared to mind our man
ners and check our talk as a sort of
contribution to the war effort and
changing scenes of our office. But
when they start putting pink satin
kewpie dolls over the telephones we
shall retire defeated from the trade
we once regarded as the most secure
male stronghold on earth.
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National Advertising Service, Inc.
College Publishers Representative
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ISSUE:
Sports: BILL WOESTENDIEK
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ere Are The Facts on Town Rooming
Editor's Note : In an attempt to determine the twie
living conditions in town, the Daily Tar Heel, on Sat
urday morning, October 10th, distributed questionnaires
in freshman chapel dealing with the various phases of
student living in Chapel Hill. Of the blanks distri
buted, 198 were filled in and returned by freshmen living
in town.
Students were asked: "
"How many blocks from South Building do you live?"
This question was aimed at determining the extent of
the "campus-break-up" and general disintegration of
campus life.
It was found that 47 of the 198 students lived six or
more blocks from South Building (taken as a central
point). Several students in this group were a mile or
two out in town.
"How many occupants in your room, including your
self?" Only four students replied that four or more
people occupied a room.
"What rent do you pay per month?" The average
rent was found to be $12.50 a month, but 77 students
were found to be paying . over that figure. Of those
paying more than the average $12.50, six students re
ported paying $20 a month, and one student reported
$25 per month. These seven are certainly cases that
seem way out of proportion and that would be brought
up before a defense rental committee.
This is in contrast to University dorm students.
Contrast the above figures with these released jester
day by the cashier's office: Students rooming four in a
room in Steele and BVP are paying $46 a year! While
a majority of dorm students living three in a room, in
Carr, for example, are paying $61 a year. Rents in
Smith are slightly higher. v
"What arrangements' were made concerning con
tracts?" Ten students replied they had signed written
contracts, while 147 reported they had verbal contracts
with their landlords. Thirty-six students wrote that
they specified they would remain where they were for
one quarter, while one specified two quarters, and 46
specified a year's residence.
"If you found a more satisfactory room, how long
would you feel obliged to stay?" Of the total group,
98 answered they were under no obligation, but 19 said
they were obligated for one month, 31 were obligated
for one quarter, five were obligated for two quarters,
and 46 were obligated for a year, and two felt obligated
for four years!
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Intertown Council Cements
Town Students
By Walter Klein
A young organization on the Car
olina campus, begun last summer;
has a big job to do.
The organization is the Inter
town council; the job is to bring all
the students in town into a united
cooperating body, to give town
students adequate representation in
campus activities and the student
legislation, to furnish entertain
ment for town residents, to coordin
ate town boys into expanded sports
programs, and to give town stud
ents power to gripe and argue and
do something about campus and
town problems.
President of the council is Bar
ry Colby, from the island of Cura
coa and lately from New Jersey; Mr.
Kear's right-hand man in the stud
ent activities fund office. He took
over the post when Johnny Snell,
one of the founders and first presi
dent, resigned a few weeks back be
cause of a tough schedule.
Colby has since turned the coun
cil into a permanent organization.
The town has been divided into four
districts and subdivided into about
30 sections, each district with a man
ager and intramural director and
each section with a student repres
entative and intramural delegate.
Meetings of the elected council are
being held periodically in Dean
Parker's office. Plans are beginning
to take shape.
This week the Intertown council
is being put to its final acid test
when councilmen aid in passing
class budgets and picking up talent
for the Sunday Night Session. Week
after next the council goes to work
on the Community Chest drive. In
cooperation with the Interdormitory
council Colby's group .will sponsor
a winter quarter dance for all town
and dorm students.
With a slate like that Colby is
a worried man these days. He's
worried about the lack of guts in his
council and the obvious lethargy of
town students in cooperating with
the council's program.
So far the council members
haven't done their job of getting
town students together to meet each
other, and elementary necessity.
And so far town students them
selves haven't given a damn for the
district meetings they are supposed
to attend.
Colby needs cooperation from his
own council and from all the stud
ents living in town. Without it, the
Intertown council is only a name,
and its activities are -the efforts of
only one worker.
Sweden's most famous conservative
student society, the Heimdal society
at Upsala university, has adopted a
change in regulations according to
which Nazi sympathizers cannot be
long to the society.
These figures indicate that warnings issued last sum
mer by the Tar Heel were correct and were ignored.
Student leaders through the paper urged the Univer
sity to warn students not to contract or obligate them
selves to Chapel Hill landlords, for that would leave
them unable to take advantage of dormitory space that
might become available.
At present there are 34 vacant dormitory rooms, and
. students in the above classification may not Jtake advan
tage of moving into them, because of commitments
they were forced to make early in September. So the
University suffers too, for rent is not paid on the vacant
rooms.
Asked, "Do you plan to move?", 31 answered they
would move at the end of the first quarter, two at the
end of the second quarter, 18 at the end of the third
quarter, and two "as soon as possible."
Of the 198 who returned the questionnaires, 66 signi
fied they were fraternity pledges, and 50 were self-help
students.
Thirty students complained that toilet facilities were
inadequate, and 12 said they were only fair. Here is a
matter for public health authorities to look into.
Similarly, 22 students complained that heating and
ventilation were inadequate, while seven said they were
only fair. ,
Students were asked to give any other pertinent in
formation on the adequacy or inadequacy of rooms, or
any other pertinent information with which they were
acquainted.
We have selected three instances of "abuses," that
students report they are undergoing, and which could
have been and still can be avoided.
Wrote one student: "I have just moved from (ad
dress withheld) into a fraternity house, and since I have
a verbal contract to reside at that house for one quar
ter, I am paying double rent to the fraternity, and to
the House until I am replaced there. It is proving very
difficult to find replacement for my old room and J must
continue paying until I do."
Another student reported: "Both room and closet
space are crowded; beds are none too comfortable,
cleaning is irregular . . ." This student also complained
of the attitude of the landlady, and stated that other
"inmates" felt the same way.
A third student declared: "My only objection is that
I am paying much too much for my room, but I guess
I'm stuck."
Eighty per cent of the men in the
into Unity
Retreads
By Stuart Mclver
Ever since the island of New
Guinea became news I have been
worrying about the Owen Stanley
mountain range. I wanted to find
out whom it was named after. After
looking it up in the encyclopedia, I
found nothing except that it was not
named after the Stanley who later
got a fat movie contract. Nor was
it named after the Stanley of the
team Laurel and Hardy.
I was getting pretty rundown
when I enlisted the services of geol
ogy major Wallo DeWitt. Wallo
suggested that it might be named
after two guys named Owen and
Stanley. He also informed me that
it was not named after David Lee
Owen, the famous geologist.
Then by an odd coincidence, I
happened to be looking at a Sep
tember copy of Time. A footnote at
the bottom of a page read: In 1846
50, sailing in the South Pacific, H.
M. S. Rattlesnake touched at New
Guinea. Her commander: Captain
Owen Stanley.
The other night I was sitting up
in Bynum gym, the journalism
building, playing red dog when I
heard the phone ring in a nearby
room. Always the public servant,
I bounced over and answered it.
"Is Joe Bynum there," a dark
sounding voice asked.
"No," I replied, This building
was named after a different By
num." ,
"Wass say?" he stammered.
"No," I replied wearily. "Joe's
not in just now."
"Yassuh, boss," he said and hung
up. "
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To-morrow
Betty Grable
In
'This Way Please"
new freshman class of the University
of Michigan's college of literature,
science and the arts have been enrolled
in mathematics or physics courses, or
both.
"HOW RIDICULOUS TO EXPECT
MY SON TO BE A SOLDIER!"
MRS. HADLEY'S playboy son has
the finger put on him by Uncle Sam.
He's called for war service and is she
furious and outraged! Why, the very
idea! Don't they realize she is THE
Mrs. Hadley, social bigwig of Wash
ington, at whose command frigid dow
agers, haughty debutantes, political
leaders and foreign diplomats "jump
through the hoop"?
The War Department can't do that
to her but it does! The attitude of
this lady, who refuses to take the war
seriously, may annoy you a little at
first. But when she finally goes All
Out in the American way, you'll get
the biggest heart thrill of the new
movie season!
THE WAR AGAINST MRS. HADLEY
with Edward Arnold Fay Bainter
CAROLINA THEATRE NOVEMBER 18th 19th.
A Handful Of Volunteers,
Patroling China's War-
Torn Skies... Always Out-
fought.. .Daring To Carry I
The Fight To The Enemy! -
KEEPING
TAB
with Stud Gleicher
It is absolutely untrue that. E.
Carrington and I huddle together
over a bottle of milk in the wee
hours of the morning and decide
what I should say about the pic
tures he runs. I don't even know
Mr. Smith, and besides I don't drink
milk. I have nothing whatsoever to
do with those sexy shows at the
Pick. I don't get free passes. I
don't have any connection with
Paramount, Metro, or 20th Century.
Now are you happy?
The local popcorn dispensary will
soon be showing:
FLYING TIGERS . . . with John
Wayne, John Carroll.
Carroll makes us howl and Wayne
is a pain. A super-duper, thriller
chiller diller from our near Manila.
All about airplanes, shootin', heroes
an' things. The scene of the story
is in China. As if the poor Chinese
haven't suffered enough already.
, THE MOON AND SIXPENCE . . .
George Sanders.
A motion picture based on the
life of Gaugin. Most of it takes
place in the South seas and I like
it 'cause the hero is always gettin
drunk and messin' around with na
, tive women. Entertaining because of
some good photography, good act
ing and pretty girls.
GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT
HERE . . . Jack Benny.
So did the audience.
THE NAVY COMES THROUGH
. . . George Murphy, Pat O'Brien.
It seems to me I've seen this pic
ture before only it was called, "Tom
Brown at Culver," or "On Tether
hooks with the Leathernecks" or
some such title. This time Pat
O'Brien is a Chief Petty Officer in
the Navy instead of his usual ser
geant role in the Army or the Ma
rines. The change hasn't done him
any good.
I MARRIED A WITCH . . . Fred
eric March, Veronica Lake.
I don't know know Miss Lake's
husband, but he sure did.
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