THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1946
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EOBEET MORRISON
WESTY PENHAGEN
BILL HIGHT
BETTIE GAITHER-
Editor
Managing Editor
Associate Editor
Bosinesar Manager
CLIFFORD HEMINGWAY
Circulation Manager
JACK LACKEY
FOB THIS ISSUE:
Night Editor
FRED JACOBSON
.Assistant Editor
CARROLL POPLIN
Night Sports Editor
CIRCULATION NOT IMPROVING
The PU Board has been trying to re-organize its circulation
system for the Daily Tar Heel, and Circulation Manager Clif
ford Hemingway received a stern rebuke for poor circulation,
but it seems that the DTH circulation is not improving. The PU
Board meets again tomorrow to review circulation again. What
will be done we cannot predict. -
Here is a resume of the circulation problem :
To the Editor:
Nobody in Whitehead received a Tar. Heel today. Nor Sat.
Nor Sun. :
Disgustedly,
.... Perry White
P. S. My wife raises hell with me, Bob, please help me.
To the Editor:
I have only received 1 copy of the Tar Heel. Please ask him
to leave one each morning.
Mrs. B. L. Smith
Laundry Office
Dear Editor :
I, registered for the first time at the University of North
Carolina in September, 1945, and for each school term have been
required to pay for my subscription to the Daily Tar Heel. To
date I have not received my first copy and in less than a half
dozen instances have I been able to obtain a copy at the Y or
any other place. Often, however, I am able to get a copy of a
three or four days old paper.
WHEN MAY I EXPECT TO GET MY TAR HEELS REGU
LARLY OR WHEN MAY I EXPECT TO STOP PAYING THE
(FEE?
Paul J. Lytle
Darley Lochner said that Alderman Dormitory did not re
ceive DTH's yesterday. Gene Johnstone said that the DTH did
not reach the Kappa Sigma House.
Jo Pugh reported no DTH's in Carr Dormitory; Peggy Jur
gensen and Roland Giduz, no DTH's in the YMCA; Jack Lackey,
no DTH's at the Chi Psi House; Bill Hight, no DTH's at Old
West Dormitory; and Bob Goldwater, no DTH's in Miller Hall.
According to Mag Burk, the DTH is not reaching the Delta
Delta Delta House, nor Mclver Dormitory. According to Dot
Gustafson, the same is true of the Pi Beta Phi House. Accord
ing to Dean Mackie, no DTH's were delivered to South Build
ing. David Kerr Frost declares that there is inadequate de
livery to the Episcopal Parish House. Blount Stewart says that
many town students do not receive the paper. Martha Rice
wrote that 9 students at Mrs. DeLancey's were not receiving
DTH's. Miss Rice also said that no DTH's were being delivered
to Graham Memorial, Student Union. Howard Merry revealed
that on many days the DTH is not delivered to the Delta Kappa
Epsilon House. Other complaints are coming in from every part
of the campus and community and from out-of-town subscribers.
As this editorial was being written, Managing Editor Westy
Fenhagen and Advertising Manager Bill Selig discovered that
the only copies of the last issue which are now in our office are
copies which were returned to us by the Post Office, because of
no address or failure to use postage stamps. The circulation of
fice of the DTH is receiving inadequate delivery of the DTH.
R. M.
PU Board Complaint Department
Care of Daily Tar Heel Editor
Drawer 1080 . -
Dear Bob:
I have not been receiving adequate delivery of the DTH.
My address is:
Sincerely,
Jast Another Opinion
Writer Scores UP on Failure
To Adhere to SEC Platform
. - By Roy Thompson
TJie University Party's "chief reason for existing is to set forth
a program of action and to nominate candidates who will carry out
In April, 1944 part of this program of action was a plank in the
UP platform which stated that UP candidates would strive to
that program if elected." J. Lackey
secure a better entertainment
program for Carolina'. The same
plank appeared in their pro
grams of action for the elections
of November, 1944 and for both
major elections in 1945.
Student members of the enter
tainment committee are ap
pointed by the student body
president, a UP man through
out recent years.
Between July, 1945 and Janu
ary, 1946 students at Carolina
paid $3,236.40 into a student
entertainment fund. Over a
thousand dollars is still owed
by the Veterans' Administra
tion for that period. For funds
the committee had available bet
ter than four thousand dollars.
And what did we get for our
money? A fellow named Scott
who could play a piano with mit
tens on, an accomplishment of
doubtful merit; a dance ensem
ble for $1,000; a fourth-rate
opera for which we put $1,500
on the barrelhead. Then they
gave the Playmakers $715.00
for putting on the "Chimes of
Normandy."
With the money available we
could have Helen Jepson and
other leading concert artists in
Memorial Hall. We could bring
In Self Defense
TKere has surely been published some violent curses
That are aimed at my crusading doggeral verses;
Believe me, the best way to gain notoriety
Is point out the follies and flaxes of society.
Or launch an attack at established propriety:
For wherever you look, you can find people storming
At any suggestion of social reforming,
And you'll find that their rage is especially binding
And you'll find that their rage is especially blinding
Monte Howell
In Protest and Answer
a name band down for a weekend
set of dances. We could have
the United States Marine Band
here again. With the twelve
thousand dollars that will be
coming in every year for the
next few years we should be able
to buy almost anything in the To the Editor:
way of entertainment. A good many people who read Tuesday's Tar Heel were shocked
Perhaps this will be branded to find an editorial entitled "What Is America Un To?" Indeed
as another half truth. If so, let many wouJd like to ask what is the DaiJ Tar HeeJ v To?
me uxiiucx ten u& uuuuu ioic An editorial represents the nol cv of a newsmDer. The Tar
good entertainment that the UP Heel is supposed to be the voice of the Student Body the Student
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rme"v 4-r -Hi rt ii Izi 4-Tn r fiTnolroi I . . .
xSiu "vuv-uiC mC oFv.xvv.x vidual elements wish to use the Tar TTppI n fhmV mw 1p tm
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trum nictn it wm ue tu uiiuve do Q b t ag individuals, not as
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jNone oi us wno nave sunerea a la -Dortion of the students sume thev are still in hiVh school
xnrougn programs cm do not want to be identified with but it is implicit in the definition
deny that student entertainment such sentiments. of "Higher Education." In a tone
is strictly off the beam. The UP
promised good entertainment if for AmwJea tQ take ..
tneir canaiaates were eieciea.
The editorial beats the drums of deprecation, someone else an-
Thev were elected. We have
lousy entertainment.
One of two assumptions must
be made: (1) the UP is too in
efficient to do the job; (2) the
in a world disarmament. It jus
tifies such opinions by stating
that "any serious student of his
tory must know" thus and so.
Many would humbly suggest
that the author of said editorial
UPhad no intention of usmg the . . , . . f
piatiorm alter candidates were
elected.
J. Lackey again, please.
Humanist Stresses Great Need
For Better Library Facilities
history himself. History shows
that the last time the U. S. A.
Tcrpirf: rvflF nn a wnrld Hianrma-
Now read that quotation from ment ft developed into a
national disaster. The U. S. A.
reduced itself to the ninth rate
military jpower on earth. What
happened? Consult the history
book; It was so weak' that its
neighbors felt free to attack it.
Result? World War II.
Jiy uiise rnjcimey ' Even in the most orderly of
The leading exponent of humanism in this country, Professor societies,, a police force is neces-
Norman Foerster, has returned to Chapel Hill from the University sary. Mind you, an organized
of Iowa and set up permanent residence here. His latest publica- police force. In the absence of
tion, "Humanities and the Common Man," has just been issued a police force, the individ-
by the University of North Carolina Press. It is a reprint of an uai must look after himself. It
article which appeared formerly in the volume "A State Univer- was not very long ago in our own
sity Surveys the Humanities," and is now edited with a preface country that each man had to
incorporated. arm to protect himself. He who
Among the needs here is the?"" : : didn't do so simply didn't sur-
required course m great dooks vive. What is true in a world
in the country. The course of men is equally true in a world
stressed the Greek and Christian 0f nations, for nations are but
elements in literature of the groups of many men. Until an
world and devoted a good deal adequate international police
of time to Shakespeare. Careful force is set up, we must regret
rather than extensive work was ably arm to protect ourselves,
the aim of the course. For their it is not necessarily true that
composition exercises the stu- a nation that arms is getting
dents wrote in connection with ready to declare war on someone
the books they were studying. else. America not only can arm
. "In graduate programs," said for peace, it must arm for peace.
Mr. Foerster, "most English de- Sincerely,
partments stress linguistics and . ERWIN Jones
literary history. But we need a
newer approach, fven more MoreOnWork
Carrying out this idea at the
University of Iowa, he added To the Editor : .
literary criticism and imagina-j Dr. Craig's address of a few
development of the library,"
said Mr. Foerster. "Graduate
students will go where most
books are."
Having done all his teaching
in three state universities, Mr.
Foerster makes this observation
about them in his new book:
"The most distinctive duty
of the state university today
is to enable the common man
to enter into his cultural heri
tage, to develop his own hu
manity by means of it, to learn
to face life with a sense of
relative values, to prepare for
his part in dealing wisely with
the desperate problems of the
next half century. To do this
for a significant portion of
the people is the great func
tion of undergraduate educa
tion at the people's, university."
Before coming here in 1916,
Mr. Foerster had taught at the
University of Wisconsin. He
was connected with the English
department here until 1930 when
he went to the University of
Iowa.
"I went to Iowa to try to
build up a better education,"
said Mr. Foerster. At the Uni
versity he was director of the
school of letters and head of the
departments of German, Clas
sics, Jkngiish and Komance lan
guages, and as such had both
teaching and administrative
duties. In the undergraduate
school Mr. Foerster instigated a
course in great books which was
required for all freshmen and
sophomores. This program was
started in 1933 and was the first
tive writing to the graduate
school. The department took the
unconventional step of accept
ing a piece of imaginative writ
ing as a Ph.D. dissertation. Wil
bur Schrann and Paul Engle
were among the . students who
followed this plan, and all the
books submitted were published.
"Changes were made in the
faculty, but the best result was
a change of the type of student
coming there. Since then a new
dean has been appointed and the
program has somewhat broken
up. On the whole the ideas have
had some national acceptance."
Mr. Foerster arranged for a
series of distinguished profes
sional writers, including Stephen
Vincent Benet, Robert Frost and
Archibald MacLeish, to come and
stay with the Iowa students for
a period of two weeks each. A
periodical of creative writing
from graduate students all over
the country, "American Pre
faces," was started.
days ago has brought out two
rather typical responses in the
columns of the Tar Heel, upon
which I would like to comment.
The first reaction was in the
form of an editorial in the best
American tradition of "Let John
do it." The writer called for a
reform in the University, evi
dently believing that the stu
dents already approached their
various tasks with maximum
zeal, and that little if any fault,
or hope of improvement, could
be found in that group alone.
Granting many defects in the
American college system, the
fact still remains that greatness,
even competency, is acquired by
individual effort which may be
hampered by external circum
stances, but the drive for which
must come from within. If one
is in Chapel Hill seeking knowl
edge I do not think he will find
too many obstacles in his path,
but he must bring or develop his
own incentive. This harsh doc-
nounced that Dr. Craig's ad
dress was only an extended tru
ism. It was, but that does not
make it any less true, nor the
truth less bitter. ;
There also appeared a letter
of criticism, more mature, more
thoughtful, and much more
valid. It might be summarized
as "Work? For What?" and at
the present moment all thought
ful people should be asking
themselves this same question.
Nevertheless, there occurs to me
only two solutions: one a futile
hedonism, and the other work.
I quite agree that work in the
fields of applied, or even pure
science, seems at the moment re
dundant if not utterly futile.
But great tasks remain to be ac
complished in the fields of hu
man relationships, both on a per
sonal and an international scale.
The animal in man needs fur
ther taming or he will destroy
himself with the shining lethal
weapon that our men of science
have absentmindedly entrusted
to his anthropoid care. It may
very well be that most of us will
witness the final destruction of
the human species. It will be
due to the failure of Homo
sapiens, so:called, to apply com
mon sense and the laws of cause
and effect to war, the last major
problem facing mankind. A
great mass of prejudice, pride,
greed, jealousy, fear and hate
stands in the way of any objec
tive approach to the problem,
yet we must solve it or perish.
Work is an indefinite word. To
give it greater meaning for us,
let us interpret it as study,
thought, action. Let us study the
problems of mankind, and let
us think of possible solutions.
Above all, let us work our hard
est to put into action whatever
solution 'seems most rational.
WORK, both as an individual
and in groups. There is no easy
way! Study, thought, action. In
a word work. If you love life,
think it over.
Perrell F. Payne, Jr.
Exchanges
Irate wife: I want an explana
tion, and I want the truth.
Hubby: Well, make up your
mind. You can't have both.
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He Do you know the secret
of popularity?
She Yes, but not tonight.
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"Here's the place mother said
to stay away fromI thoueht
we'd never find it."
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