SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1946
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CARROLL POPLIN -
THE MACHINE AGE
College, defined as an institution for the prolongment of
adolescence, has become an assembly line for the production of a
finished and uniform product-the AJ3. degree or several other
alphabetized equivalents. Raw material, mellowed in the high
schools and prep schools, is placed into a machine consistmg
of four cylinders, each cylinder having three parts. Each part
of the machine is carefully divided and subdivided, and there is
a foreman (called a dean) to keep all the parts oiled andrun
ning with the maximum efficiency. There are a number of
common laborers (called professors), who are detailed to the
minute tasks of keeping a particular set of nuts m line
Capital (called the General Assembly and the Board of Trus
tees) count their proxies and elect management (called presi
dent and chancellor) . Management is responsible for obtaining
a large quantity of raw material and keeping it pouring through
the carefully regulated assembly line. The labor union (called
the faculty) is a closed shop, but strangely enough, labor is or
ganized to combat the rebellious raw material which strangely
enough, possesses some personification.
The raw material first arrives at a receiving station (called
the Dean of Admissions) and is scientifically analyzed for its
suitability in mass production. If theraw
receiving station, it enters the first cylinder (called the fresh
man class) of the machine. The raw material, filled with grem
lins, often gets out of line and into the wrong tube. Frequently
the raw material becomes quite warped, and is removed from
the machine for lack of utility in further production. If the
foreman knows his job, however, the material moves smoothly
into the second cylinder. At the end of the second cylinder
there is a separator which sends the material into several dif
ferent divisions of the third cylinder. Continuing in the division
of the fourth cylinder which corresponds to a division of the
third, the material moves on through the line, always taking
a new form. At the end of the fourth cylinder, the material is
still in quite an amorphous condition, but all it really needs is a
coat of super-enamel. The enamel Is added by a spraying ma
chine (called the faculty committee on degrees) and then the
material bursts forth in grandeose splendor, magnificently a
completely individualistic product, called an "A.B. degree."
Throughout the whole process, the timing is perfect. Oc
casionally some high grade material can be sent through more
rapidly, but such a case seldom happens. The total process re
quires exactly four years, and each year is divided into exactly
four equal parts, the machine being idle during one part of the
year. ,
What this machine needs is a good, heavy monkey wrencil
thrown in between the capital-management and the labor-raw
material. The raw material will soon have an opportunity to
make such a toss. B. M.
THE DORMITORY PROBLEM TODAY
The Powers of the Counselor .
The chief power or government in the dormitory should be
created by will of the students, expressed by elections of the
self-government.
However, the counselor, in order to function properly, must
be a bona fide representative of the administration, endowed
with all the power of the administration. The counselor should
have the right to expel undesirable occupants of the dormitory, .
and if his discretion in this matter is not the best, he should
never be employed as a counselor.
The administration must give full faith to the counselor, and
give him full authority to regulate the dormitory as he sees fit.
The dormitory manager carries out his carefully detailed
tasks, but the counselor must be supreme, and fully responsible
for the over-all regulation of the dormitory R. M,
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Managing Editor
Associate Editor
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ISSUE:
Night Editor
Assistant Editor
Night Sports Editor
Questioning
US Relations
With Russia
. By Murray Goldenthal
There exists on this campus
as well as elsewhere, an attitude
which in my opinion is un
healthy; this attitude regards
war with Russia as a certainty,
the only doubt being as to when
the shooting will start. It is a
common attitude that is often
heard in public, but more often
and more dangerously felt in pri
vate. For example, how many
reading this article have secret,
unexpressed convictions that a
conflict between the . United
States and Russia is inevitable?
It is an unhealthy attitude be
cause the fear of war constitutes
the greatest threat to the world's
security.
This outlobk can be attributed
to many things, some having to
do with a characteristic Ameri
can attitude of distrusting for
eigners but its greatest en
couragement can be found in ir
responsible "statesmen," in an
undefined, wavering foreign pol
icy, and in a news-hungry, often
prejudiced, press all serving to
further becloud the truth.
I mention this attitude not be
cause I feel best qualified to
weigh it, but because I feel a
very definite need for its con
sideration. These facts may be
"obvious," but because of their
fundamental nature, all the
more reason for their being men
tioned. This fear, I have said, has no
founding in truth because if we
stop to think, war with Russia is
at best an illogical proposition.
Wars in the modern sense if
any sense can be attributed to
them have their roots in con-,
flicting imperialism, in cutthroat
economic competition, or in basic
incompatibilities between two
peoples. On all these counts a
war with Russia has no founda
tion in log ic. What remains is
friction caused by people un
willing to put unimportant dis
agreements in their proper per
spective, and unwilling to be
lieve that cooperation could be
just around the corner.
This attitude is a source of
See RUSSIA, page U
Letters To The Editor
People Wrong In Judging the Whole
To the Editor:
Two years ago this week, while
another Red Cross drive was in
progress, I was completing my
training in an air corps fighter
group on the West Coast. Fol
lowing the example of my flight-
leader and several other ex-combat
men who were biased against
the Red Cross,-1 refused to con
tribute to the drive. I just wasn't
going to put my money into such
a corrupt organization. I could
not see putting my money into
the upkeep of the big Packards
and Buicks that all the Red Cross
representatives were gallivant
ing in to pleasure spots; nor to
send girls overseas who couldn't
see lower than lieutenant-colonels
; nor to buy cigarettes which
would be sold back to me over
seas for four to eight bits a pack.
For this, you see, is what I was
told would happen to my money.
Ten weeks later everything I
possessed from the shirt on my
back, to the' food I ate, to the
razor I shaved with, the blanket
underwhich I slept, and, yes,
even toilet paper was given to me
by the Red Cross. I was made a
prisoner-of-war by the Germans
on May 12, 1944.
A Lif esaver
There is no way in which I
nor tnose wno snarea my ex
perience can evaluate the ser
Publishing Company Executive Declares
Books Should Be Inexpensive For Public
By Sarah Spratt
"The masses must be educated
and entertained inexpensively,"
declared an English visitor, Miss
Eunice E. Frost, vice-president
of Penguin Books, Inc. The Pen
guin Company in London and
the King Penguin in New York,
which have as their objective the
publishing and printing of se
lected books in dwarf, handy
sizes, about four by seven
inches.
Miss Frost recently came to
the United States from London
to reorganize the publishing
company there. She explained
that wartime restrictions were
off now, and she is busy finding
new designers, employing new
members of the editorial staff
and new markets. The Univer
sity of North Carolina is one of
the university campuses in the
South visited by the executive in
a survey of the student's inter
ests in reading these small sized
books.
When asked how she obtained
such a responsible position, Miss
Frost said:
"I started at the bottom, just
like anyone else who succeeds the
hard way. For a while, I wrote
for literary circles in London. I
was assistant secretary, then
very soon one of the editors need
ed my help and I was in a posi
tion to help him.
"Young writers who wish to
get into a publishing house
should stamp letters at first, if
there is no other position open,
because even in a small job, you
get to know the people and the
duties, and get adjusted to the
environment. Soon, you'll find
someone crying for help, and
presto, you have proven that you
can be an executive.
"This is my first trip to the
South," the tall blonde Britisher
explained. "It is quite a con
trast to New York. I drove in
my car from the University of
Virginia to Carolina and once I
had car trouble. I thought I'd
never get out of the open coun
try. I wTould like to visit Georgia,
Mississippi and Louisiana."
The Penguin Books, Inc. in
New York is operating on the
same pattern as the company in
vice performed for us by the Red
Cross. We know only that had
it not been for the Red Cross we
would not be here today.
Clothes, good American G. I.
clothes, toilet articles, towels,
some cigarettes, a pipe and to
bacco, chewing gum real lux
uries to a person who has been
cooped in filthy prisons were
issued to each man on his ar
rival at camp. Food parcels were
issued once a week. What a
Day! Everyone awaited it in
anticipation and in fear. Fear
of there not being any more par
cels, or of there not being enough
to go around. Anticipations
would your parcel have 5 or 7
packs of fags-r-would they be
Luckies or Raleighs would you
get strawberry jam or grape-
ade bully-beef or spam tuna
fish or sardines? Yes, those "par
cel days" brought not only neces
sities for today, but remem
brances of yesterday and prom
ises for tomorrow.
A Friend In Deed
How good it was to have a
Red Cross representative visit
the camp! To see the Germans
scurrying about, to fix this and
that to meet requirements. To
know that the few comforts and
privileges you did have would
likely be taken from you if these
representatives did not make
London, which has been pub
lishing pocketbooks since 1939.
The types of writing printed in
clude fiction, guides, Shakes
peare, illustrated classics, mod
ern painters and children's
books.
The books are gaily designed,
an attraction not utilized in the
small pocketbooks. Miss Frost
emphasized there is a great deal
of searching through manu
scripts by an expert ' editorial
board before final approval for
publication. This is to prevent
cheap literature from flooding
LIFE CAN BE
By Dick
Several months ago, after having straightened the world out
through the medium of this column, we retired from our duties
to a life of peace and recreation on our country manor, Stratford
by the Rillarah, with a Bralla Running Suet (hot and cold run
ning suet, of course). Now once again we find the world in a state
of catastrophe; not only that, things are all fouled up! And once
again we have been called upon to bring enlightenment, and cour
age to a tired people. We have answered that call! Heap no
praises on our shoulders ; any
red-blooded American would
have done the same if given a
chance. The trouble is, nobody
ever gives the poor guy half a
chance.
But, recalling those fine
courses in American History
which we have taken ever since
our fourth year in third grade,
(we flunked three years in a
row; you should have seen the
legs on that teacher!),. we re
membered that our first Presi
dent, Abraham Washington, also
wished to retire permanently to
his palacial manor, Mount Yer
Horse, after having safely led
the original eighteen colonies
through the Spanish-American
War of 1812, a war concluded by
the Versailles Treaty. This
treaty, incidentally, was so
named because Ezra Versaille, a
half-witted hoe-hand, who was
carrying on a secret love affair
with Washington's maid, was in
strumental in drawing up the
terms of surrender. Historians
now believe, however, that this
document is, in reality, a love
letter written by Ezra to his girl
friend, Washington's private
periodic inspections. (Some of
them were killed by strafing al
lied planes.) Just to have con
tact with someone, a friendly
someone, meant a lot. Through
these representatives boys who
had especially pressing prob
lems could get messages through
to their loved ones and messages
of births and deaths came
through to us.
And later, when we had been
moved to a place without stores
and the German transportation
system was breaking down, the
white angels" came bringing us
food and medical supplies. Those
American G. I. trucks painted
white with red crosses on them
truly seemed to us to be "White
Angels." They arrived when we
were at our lowest ebb of morale.
The advancing spearheads of our
forces were spreading in all di
rections but ours; the German
High Command had proclaimed
a fight to the last man in Ba
varia, and, that's where we were ;
we had been on a ration of 900
calories per man per day and
not a man but looked like a walk
ing skeleton.
Thought Rewards
I had a lot of time to think in
prison camp. I think I've learn
ed not to reach hasty and super
ficial conclusions. Organizations
the market.
In addition, the Penguin has
established a special editorial ad
visory board which will provide
counsel and recommendation for
both Penguin and Pelican (non
fiction books) lines. This new
board at present includes Judge
Jerome Frank, famous writer
and jurist and Dr. Eduard C.
Lindeman of Columbia Univer
sity, sociologist and educator.
."About 80 per
manuscript used
Miss Frost said.
cent of the
is original,"
BEAUTIFUL
and Wyck
secretary Maggie. This is the
only way they can explain the
free-love clause as one of the
eighty-nine points of the treaty.
Maggie, however, turned out to
be a British spy planted in Wash
ington's household by the Eng
lish major in charge of female
spies, Lt. (jg) Howe who also
taught a night course in radar
detection at the YMCA. She
was later caught and sen
tenced to be hanged to death
by hanging; young Versailles
dropping his hoe in the
north pasture, sent this letter
(you do remember the letter)
to the authorities in protest of
such an action. This letter was
misinterpreted and sent to the
State Department, who decided
to use it as the peace treaty.
Three days later Maggie was
hanged and young Versaille
again indicated his dislike of the
government's action by leaping
from the Empire State Building
and committing suicide.
But "Honest Abe" Washing
ton, better known to his friends
as "Stonewall" Washington, did
not neglect the call of duty, and
Se& LIFE, page U
by its Parts
are managed by people: good
people, average people, bad peo
ple. You can't fairly judge a
large organization tremendous
ly and rapidly expanded by one
or a few individuals in that or
ganization. I urge all of you to look not
only at the cheats who graft,
the girls who won't recognize a
rank lower than lieutenant
colonel, the draft dodgers, the
field-directors who couldn't take
time off from their poker mmw.
and life of leisure to aid you, but
to search for the tremendous
good done and services rendered
Talk to the men who have been
prisoners-of-war, to the men
who owe their life to the blood
plasma donated by the Red
Cross, to the victims of flnnrl
hurricanes, tornadoes, and areas.
of famine. Look at the work
done by your mothers, sisters,
and1 wives during this war and
m other periods of stress. Think
of the millions of needv and
starving people whom the Red
uross with your aid can helD to
day and tomorrow. Examine in
its entirety this-mighty, charit
able organization and support it
according to the best dictates of'
conscience and resources.
Jaue3 !I. Lilly