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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1946 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL .1 j 'j - 1 ' V r a ne Bam ci cur a eel . The official newspaper of the Publications Union of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is printed daily, except Mondays, examinations and vacation periods. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel HiH, K. C, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price is $5.00 for the collegre year. ' ROBERT MORRISON WESTY FENHAGEN EDDIE ALLEN BETTTE GAITHER Editor Managing Editor Associate Editor .Business Manager CLIFFORD HEMINGWAY Circulation Manager EDITORIAL STAFF: Ray Conner, Fred Jacobson, Dorothy Marshall, Gloria Gactier, Mort Sneed, Dick Koral, Dick Stern. NEWS EDITORS: Bob Levin, Jack Lackey. . COPY EDITOR: Bill Larrikin. , REPORTERS: Betty Green, Jo Tugh, Frances Halsey, Janet Johnston, Mary Hill Gaston, Bettie Washburn, Gloria Robbins, Sam Sommerlin, Elaine Patton. Mickie Derienx. Gene Aenchbacher, John Giles, Roland Giduz, Darley Lochner, Posey Emerson, Elizabeth Barnes. SPORTS EDITORS : Carroll Poplin, Irwin Smallwood. . SPORTS STAFF: Howard Merry, Frank Miller, ' Clark StaHworth, Mel Cohen, Bob Fried lander, Buddy. Gotterman, Jo Farris, Jim Kluttz. ADVERTISING MANAGER: Bill SeJig. ' cv. ADVERTISNG LAYOUT MANAGER: Ann Thornton; Assistant, Don Shields. BUSINESS STAFF: Suzanne Barclay, Natalie Selig, Claude Ramsay, Strowd Ward, Bar- ADVERTTSING "STAFF: Adelaide McNarty, Ruth Gay, Virginia Wilson, Peggy Cates, Sarah Wood, Gene Heafner. Bettie Cheatham, Nancy Westbrook Jean Youngb ood, Clare Hudson, Nancy Maupin. Ann Geohegan, Lois Clarke, Hal Dickens, Zeb Little, Eddie Owens, Mary Widener, Fay Maples, Marianne Brown. Jane Slaughter, Mary Jo Cain, Ann Cobb, Louise King, Jeanne DnscoU, Betty Lamb. Nooky McGee, Jo McMillan. ZJUtatUcdlif, LEAVE IT TO THE PHANTS The greatest basketball team in North Carolina's history plays Duke tonight in the climactic battle of a scintillating season. Wearing Tar Heel uniforms 'will be the quintet which already has cracked the University's all time recdrd for vic tories, and scoring. Twenty-four wins in twenty-six games, engineered with "a point aggregate of close to 1,500 is the amaz ing figure the White Phantoms have indelibly inscribed in the record books. Unfortunately it cannot be said that the quality of student support fias always been worthy of the team. Not that the en tire campus hasn't backed the Phants to the utmost; on the contrary, it is because of its very 'exuberance that the support has on several occasions violated the bounds of good sportsman ship. Tonight's contest at Duke, because of some vagary of the Duke athletic office, will be witnessed by only a portion of Caro lina's backers. Those who attend should check their emotions short of creating a bad impression and let the team itself do the job against our rival. They are capable of it, fully capable. ACTION GETS RESULTS It is indeed gratifying to those who urge student action to be able to point to concrete results. The forthcoming OP A rent control investigation is one of these instances. There was widespread complaining among the students, and the honestly motivated gripes could have paved a six lane high way from here to Birmingham and back. It took a few men a few hours of some real work to organize that sentiment into a petition, and two men to take it to Washington. Thanks to the Veterans Association, where men are organized for action, things are moving. The story of rent control two years ago illustrates the same point negatively. A committee of the town's Board of Aldermen recommended rent control in Orange County. Because the stu dents were not on their toes, the recommendation somehow never got to Washington. We think that the trouble in the world is not due so much to the plottings of the wicked, but rather to the impotency of the well-wishers. If students realize that united action really works, students will really act. TO THE-VETERANS We are writing this editorial on the request of the chairman , of the Social Committee of, the University Veterans Association. As the affairs of the veterans affects the overwhelming majority of the student body, and indirectly the whole campus, we are glad to transmit Mr. Willis's remarks in these columns. The veterans have been complaining bitterly that the Vet erans Association has not provided a real social program for the veterans on the campus. The criticism usually reaches its peak whenever the Association proposes some action of a non-social nature. ' When the idea of a swimming party was proposed on the floor at the UVA meeting last month, it met with considerable mur murs of approval, and thirty men promised to attend. The party was advertised around the campus for the benefit of those who don't attend the business meetings. Only twenty showed up. There were numerous requests for a dance. Tonight the veterans have a chance to attend a dance of their own, with a good orchestra, in a good hall. So far only twenty-five bids have been sold. If the veterans want their Association to provide them with a decent-social program, they have just got to support those functions when they are announced. That's all there is to it. Improvements In Sight Trustee Report Key To Better Education By Jimmy Wallace The Trustees Visiting Committee has presented what may be aptly termed an inspired report to the Board of Trustees of the University. square facing of the issues, the bold and necessary solutions proposed, combine to make. this report on the state of the Uni versity a momentous one. A re port in keeping with the times. The great strides taken by the University within the past 30 years has placed it above the usual mediocrity of Southern uni v e r s i t i e s. A growing, intel ligence regard ing salaries, cur riculum, and Wallace methods of serv ing the people of the state has placedthe University in the up per brackets. But such an ele vated position cannot long be maintained unless progress is continuous, unless new problems are met with new answers. Scholasticism, educational Feu dalism, cannot long exist in a society founded upon competi tion, either7 economic or educa tional. Change, and the exercise of new-found powers, are the order IUL,I,AJJ II L UIIMII IIIU.II gift JT k Red Schoolhouse into its mod ernized counterpart, the big Red schoolhouse-. The Trustees' re port is significant in that it recognizes that such a situation could (and will, unless some thing is done immediately) arise. The Visiting Committee has not only recognized, but has demanded immediate action on the matter of inadequate faculty salaries. We know that they are inadequate, that they have been inadequate for some time. To expect to get a better education from a group of several hun dred underpaid, insecure, and over-worked faculty members than from one underpaid, in secure, and over-worked teacher in the little Red schoolhouse, is sheer folly. While the good points of the education are mul tiplied along with the number of teachers, so are the bad ones. The University, to put it "plati tudinously, is only as good as its faculty. Its faculty, in general", is only as good as the salaries received. It is pointed out in the report of the Visiting Committee that out of the 34 members of the American Association of n-f fVio Trlo-ir TVio nTvnlaTrmsrlfrl educational organism of 25 years Universities, the University of ago begins to look shabby and antiquated today. Be it for bet ter or for worse, the little red schoolhouse is retiring from the field, badly mauled, baffled, and somewhat illiterate. The disap pearance of the scenes of one's childhood, however, is warrant ed only if something better takes its place. If we are to adopt a large .Red schoolhouse instead of a small one, then we have ac complished nothing. We have merely applied the well-known American principle of mass production to education. We merely turn out, as a result, an assortment of robots, regurgi tating memorized book material and waving their A.B. madly in the air, demanding that they be given all the "rights and privi leges thereunto appertaining." It is to be hoped that we are not graduating from the little North Carolina ranks lowest in its salary scale. We have re tained many excellent professors only because of their love for the University and Chapel Hill. Most Universities cannot' boast of such attachment. The Report has placed the is sue squarely before the Trustees. They may choose to allow the University to become a second rate institution, or they may choose to push it higher into the upper brackets. The issue finally rests with the Legislature in Raleigh. The money for the in creased salaries, for the enlarge ment of facilities will come from there. The legislature must recognize that the energy, ca pability, and loyalty of state em ployees varies, except in special instances, directly with the sal ary received. Wnile tnere is great loyalty among many of the Writer Believes Opposing Views to be Reconcilable By Earl E. Ditmars (Here is another view on the popularly discussed reactionary-radical cycle, written be fore the appearance of yester day's editorial on the same subject. Ed.) There has been considerable writing in the Daily Tar Heel recently concerning the distinc tion between the liberal and the conservative, between their thinking, contribution, organiza tion and basic purpose. It is somewhat perturbing to find that college students have rele gated their political thought to the point of view that persons must be either conservative or liberal, reactionary or radical. Most of us are agreed that there are four major classes' to which political discussion can be assigned: A person may be re actionary, conservative, liberal, or radical. Most of us will dis agree, however, as to the line of demarcation between these four categories. Actually the de limitation is not as pronounced, at least between conservative and liberal, as a great number of people believe. Briefly, let us define the four categories. It is anticipated that there, may be disagreement by some concern ing the following definitions. A reactionary refuses to ac cept any change. He desires to maintain the status quo. He even thinks of going back to the "good old days." The conserva tive believes in social progress, but is cautious. He wants all change to come in an orthodox manner, but the ultimate goal is the betterment of mankind. The liberal has as his goal also the betterment of mankind, but he is in more of a hurry to get there. He is willing to indulge in a greater amount of experi ment in attempting to secure the end objective. The radical feels that all present methods are bad teachers here, the legislature cannot expect this loyalty to feed the kids as well as could the food bought with a decent pay-check. State education, once again, appears to be on the march. The Trustees appear to be ready to start. The Legislature will de termine the direction. T Wenty Nine Latins On The Hill and wrong. He wants to over throw the whole5ocial and polit ical order and try something en tirely new. There is little disagreement among most individuals that be ing a party to reactionary or radical thinking is dangerous in our society. If a person is re actionary unwilling to change, it is a fair indication that he has a corner on a goodly portion of the world's material goods and stands a fair chance to corner more. Such a person is parasitic and not a fit citizen for demo cratic society. If a person is radical, his propositions may be dangerous as to make possible and probable the dragging of the social order into chaos to the ex tent of total regimentation, all in contradiction to democratic republican methods. It is the conservative and the liberal to which our thinking, should be directed and it is the intrinsic purpose of this writing to suggest that the two groups reconcile themselves. It is my feeling that they are reconcil able. I am of the sincere opinion that the students, mentioned in the editorial quoted above, who are neither liberal or conserva tive, are perhaps in the sane position of all our political groups. We do irreparable dam age if we consider ourselves liberal and in disparaging tones declare someone "conservative." We contribute little if we do not recognize that the other per son's method may be superior to the one we support. It is our re sponsibility that an effort be made for the reconciliation of these two groups. The assump tion is that the final objectives of the two groups are the same, namely the ultimate better ment of mankind. The disagree ment then, is one of method. Surely the methods are recon cilable. Letters To The Editor Of the thirty-five foreign stu dents in campus, twenty-nine are Latin Americans seventeen men and twelve girls. They rep resent twelve countries: from tiny, hilly Uruguay and the flat pampas of Argentina to the charming and colorful Mexico, including the cold sea-shore of Chile, the tropical Ecuador, the powerful and legendary Brazil, Cuba, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia. .... Most of these students are studying Public Health, and are educators who plan to improve sanitary conditions in remote states of their countries, where tropical diseases, malnutrition, or carelessness have checked progress for decades. The work ahead of them is hard, but they are full of energies and are get ting here the weapons they'll use in their fight. The largest single group has come from Puerto Rico. (The 'portoriquenos" are American citizens but speak Spanish.) They are eight "brunettes": (wanna a date ?) , and all of them but one study Public Health. The one exception, Esther LandrauJ is studying Political Sciences. By Bernard Gicovate There are four Brazilians and( four Cuban students. The for mer are all sanitary engineers in their countries. I guess they'll be soon tackling tough problems in the Amazons, though its jungles are no more what they used to be, to the despair of ex plorers and fiction writers. Cuba has sent to Chapel Hill a student to the School of Com merce, Eduardo Bello, who in his leisure time plays the guitar and delights the students with his exotic (exotic for you) songs. I reckon he goes around serenad ing girls' dorms, you bet. Another of the Latin Ameri can brunettes is Cuban Maria Diaz, fronTthe University of La Havanna, where she studied his tory in the School of Letters and Philosophy. She is now working for an M.A. Her interest is the history of the Americas. From Guatemala Mr. Her rarte, professor at the School of Medicine in the University of Guatemala, is here with Mrs. Herrarte. They've brought along their daughter, Maria Eu genia, who is cooperating with the good neighbor policy in the small world. Mr. Herrarte studied at the University .of Guatemala, and after spending three years in the University of Michigan, where he got an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Public Health, went back to teach to his Alma Mater. He is here doing work in Biological Chemistry. The rest of the Latin Ameri cans are scattered individuals representing different countries. I hope I'll get enough informa tion about them whenever there is a chance to print some more. The main interest of the Latin Americans in Chapel Hill is Puolic'Health. About twenty of them are studying along this line. The simple fact speaks by itself. Their countries need sanitary engineers and public health educators, and the stu dents have gone right to it. The few exceptions nevertheless prove that they are not forgetT ting Pure Sciences, Political Sciences, Economics (there is a man from Colombia at it), lit erature, etc. I'm on the side of the excep tions too but I'd better keep still about myself . You see, I'm try ing to . . . write ! Students Say Smaller Voice Lost in Noise The obstructionist is a very interesting character. Look around there are perhaps some of them in your classes. Cer tainly you will find them in all your student organizations. They like the sound of their own voice and they like the sound of their names. He is a smooth operator a good fellow courteous, quiet at the right times, and often even tempered : as suave as were some of the 18th Century French diplomats. To those who haven't seen the other side of the pic ture he appears as a sincere, hard-working and earnest fel low. He is a member in good stand ing (sic) of all the campus or ganizations. There he can be found voting for everything everyone else opposes or trying to table everything the majority favors. He belongs to all the committees he knows the presi dent and chairman. He has sound reasons for everything opinions on everything. Yes, everything. He sticks to the constitution and the by-laws but it is according to his inter pretation. He incites his cohorts and they incite their cohorts un til no one is quite sure what is going on; yet, they are all quite See LETTERS, page 4 ft l! A
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