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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1946 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL Boiiiti The official newspaper of the Publication Unlom of the Unlrerrfty ? jf Chapd HU1. where it to printed daily. expt Monday. examiMtion. and rf totered aTaeeond elaaa matter at the port office at Chapel HiD. N. C, under ine a w Karen 8, 1879. Subscription price Sa $5.00 for the college year. Complete Leased Wire ROBERT MORRISON WE STY FENHAGEN BILL HIGHT CARROLL POPLIN and BILL WOESTENDIEK BILL SELIG CLIFFORD HEMINGWAY TcSSaS lblKoftToity Marshall. Gloria Gantier. Corinne Ossinsky. " v BraS-Gree? JoJrthc Halaey. Janet John-ton. Mary ;MIM Sarton Itti? Washbnr Gbria EobbiMrSam Summerlin. Elaine Patton. Mickie Derieax. Gene i!LW iZ S Roland Giduz. Dariey Lochner. Posey Emerson. Elizabeth ' Barna. SPORTO STAF: 'Howard" lrr Fr.n1? Mille Clark StaKworth. Mel Cohen. Bob Fried- lander. Buddy Gotterman, Jo Farris. Jim Klutt. SSJSSi bc, NaSeW Strowd Ward. Barbara Thorson. Clande A D'VRISDGST'F Cettie1Cheatham) Lois Clark. Gene Heafner, Adelaide McLarty. EddS Owens Jane PeeteTNancy Watih, Virginia Wilson. Mary Jo Cam. Ann Cobb, Bm HaYJ. Bobbye Jean Hardy. Barbara Lynn. Fay Maples. Ruth Tompkins. FOB THIS JACK LACKEY RAY CONNER CARROLL POPLIN LETS NOT HAVE MOB PSYCHOLOGY AND UNINFORMED BALLOTS DEFEAT OUR STUDENT CONSTITUTION The legislature has done it! After over a year of concentrat ed study, debate, and writing, and after 150 years of spasmodic interest; and after 15 years of more intense possibility, a con stitution will soon be presented for ratification by the student body. Political lines became acute in the student legislature; it be came relatively easy to identify a Student Party or University Party sympathizer by the way he voted on several critically debated issues. The student body is not having a hastily considered document thrust upon them for ratification. One undeniable fact stands in the constitution's favor: it has received a tremendous amount of time and effort in its construction. . Our greatest fear is that several groups, perhaps working independently, will find some minor clause in the proposed docu ment which does not fit ; in with their individual desires, and they might seek to wage open war on the whole document. A minority group will find a useful advantage in the fact that the constitution must be ratified by a two-thirds vote of the student body, at least 25 voting. We feel that 25 of the students will vote, but we have some fear for a two-tHirds vote. Mob psychology, unfortunately, can victimize college students. Someone may start yelling, "Students, do you realize that the constitution abolishes the honor system? The constitution was framed by a selfish group of broken-down politicians! Coeds, this constitution will make this a man's student government!' Law students, medical students, commerce students, pharmacy students, unite you're being denied your historic rights!" Many students will not bother to read the constitution (which will be reprinted by the'DTH) and may believe such argumentum. ad populum. We urge the student body either to study the constitution carefully or not to vote, for on this issue an uninformed vote is dangerous. We sincerely believe that any student who really understands the constitution is not likely to oppose its over-all provisions. E. M. - GOOD JOB DONE IN FREDERICKSBURG Carolina can look with pride to its group of students who at tended the Grand National Forensic Tournament and carried away top honors. Although the winners are not quite in the limelight that Carnevale's team received by its victories over other schools, we think our debaters deserve a large share of praise. The Carolina orators were pitted against students from the largest universities and colleges of the nation, and we came out with two top places and a number of subsidiary victories. Jim Taylor, an important cog in the student legislature, Phi Society, and Student Party, won the Men's National Oratorical Contest; and Bill Miller, a new but promising man on the cam pus forensic scene, won the Dramatic Reading Contest. Mrs. Jim Taylor, the "better half" of the powerful Taylor combina tion, took top honors in Woman's oratory. Cleo Jones, who looks like an attractive high school freshman (but is really a graduate student in history), defeated some powerful compe tition and walked away with an award in extemporaneous speak ing. Other Carolina students who won honors for Carolina are David Pittman, who headed the delegation, and Maurice Bras well, Jim Doddo, Fred Chamberlain, Don, Shields, Bobby Jones, and Lee Wood. R. M. CI air wm Serrice of United Press Editor Managing Editor Associate Editor Co-Sports Editors Business Manager Circulation Manager ISSUE: . ..,..r Night Editor ... Assistant Editor Night Sports Editor Science and the Future- Television By Anatole Volkov Less than fifty years ago spurts of electrical energy were for the first time thrust into space, and with the speed of light reamed intelligence over an t , .. . . I I I I . I ' , . :-. , ''-. : " . :. : : v Figure 1 cover an area such as the Unit ed States. Recently, however, a 27-year- old Texasborn Westmghouse engineer developed a system of aircraft broadcasting which is believed to have solved this problem. By use of this system a fraction of the power needed by ground transmission is suf ficient to cover an area of 103, 000 square miles as compared to the previous limit of 5,000 square miles (see fig. 1). Thus by using 14 stratosphere air planes (see fig. 2) broadcasting at 30,000 ft., over three-fourths of the population could receive 0 f Figure 3 six radio technicians (see fig. 3). There are still major problems to be solved. Unlike radio, tele vision sets wili require installa tion by experts and special an tennas. Also because of the com plexity of these sets troubles will be fairly prevalent and up keep will be expensive. An even greater difficulty will be that of entertainment. Sports programs will offer no difficulty, but news casts will be dull to watch as will forums-and other standard items of radio entertainment. A new type of acting and comedy will have to be used. Scripts will be out and the television actor will either have to have an encyclopaedic- memory or will have to improvise lines with only an out line plot as a background. Dear Bob, The Daily Tar Heel, "the fin est college daily in the south east" has gone to the big-wheel politicos of Carolina's campus. It is no longer a paper that rep resents the student's views and opinions. The DTH seems to have become the personal battle Just Around ocean. Today a commonplace box governs the lives of millions of us; tells us the time, the weather conditions, and the state of the world; it is our court jester and our mentor a commonplace box -A Yet in spite of these 'difficul ties there will undoubtedly be a great increase in the number of sets sold in America, if the great monopolies that are being formed do not hinder further -development. Science has done its part. It is now up to the great elec tronic companies and the radio networks to provide the realiza tion of a nation's dream. (Editor's Note: This simpli fied explanation of national tele vision transmission will be par ticularly interesting to Tar Heel readers, because the Extension Division of the Uniyersity is seriously considering providing television, originating in a studio to be built in Swain Hall, as part of our educational program for the people of North Carolina.) ground on which three or four notoriety seeking students voice their very unimportant opinions. ' It Js my humble belief that Carolina students would appreci ate less of these long-winded, idealistic letters sent in by some of the "master-minds of interna tional politics." Although I real - f 1 the Corner? called "the radio." With the advances that have taken place in the field of elec tronics because of the war, tele vision is in a position to supplant and take the place of radio. In fifty years our grandchildren will turn knobs to view the "Teledrama" or watch their favorite "Telecomedian" and see the latest "Visi-commer-cial" with the same blase in difference that we feel toward radio. One of tHe greatest difficul ties facing television today is the expense involved in giving the nation complete broadcast coverage. Unlike radio which can cover great distances, tele vision is handicapped by what is termed "line of sight trans mission." This means that the range of broadcasting is deter mined by the horizon as seen by the human eye. Such limit ed transmission would require many hundreds of stations to j, I , , t uuv crrv "-Ji v.- Figure 2 television broadcasts with little expense or difficulty. This meth od of transmission also has the advantage of better and easier reception. The planes used in this sys tem would be "conventional all metal, low-wing monoplanes al most as large as the famed B-29, but the gross weight only a third of the Superfortress. They would have automatic pilots, turbo superchargers and supercharged cabins. Each plane would have a wing spread of 161 feet and weigh about 20 tons fully loaded. In addition to its nine transmit ters and monitoring and relaying equipment, each plane would af ford galley space and a lounge for the flight crew of three and ize that Carolina is "fortunate" enough to have on her campus some of the finest authorities on world affairs in this section of the country, I do not think that the DTH is the place to express the opinions of such a small mi nority. Bob, I know that your job is not an easy one, nor is it the type of job where you receive your just recognition, nevertheless, I feel that you can and should give the -students the copy that they want to read: that is, MORE NEWS OF THE CAMPUS, and as I said .before, less views by the big-wheel politicos of the Campus. Sincerely, Jay M. Taylor Dementia Domain Edited by Ray Conner It Could Happen Here! Prof: "What made you late to class this morning?" Frosh: "There are eight of us in the room and the alarm was only set for. seven.' "I guess I've lost another pupil," said the professor, as his glass eye rolled down the kitchen sink. The Colonade. Many Student Offices Remain To Be Filled By Jack Booraem The long overdue appoint ments to fill posts in the student audit board, to fill a vacancy in the student entertainment com mittee and to relieve, the partisan nature of the elections board ap pear to be a political after thought of the incumbent stu dent administration.- It is very possible that the activities of the newly formed Student Party have made it clear to members of the University Party that they had better mend their fen ces before the coming elections. Though these appointments are an improvement in the stu dent government, they fall short of what is needed and a long way short of what the Student Party is offering toward improved conditions. The Student Party was form ed by a group of students in terested in the improvement in student government This group has been working to convert our student government to a govern ment of a more representative nature. It was obvious to this group that the cause of represen tation would best be served by the formation of a new party. It has been said, by those who have the most to lose by repre sentative student government, that the Student Party is an anti fraternity party. The party poli cy of fraternities has best been expressed by the Student Party chairman, Chuck Heath, in a speech before the Student Par ty rally on April 11, 1946. "In some instances there seems to be a bit of confusion on our policy toward fraternity groups. I would like to clarify this policy by stating that it is a settled issue of this party that we are not against fraternities or soror ities as social or professional organizations, but we are in op position to any organization that closely bind themselves together for the purpose of entering cam pus politics for the benefit of any minority element of stu dents on this campus. There are a number of fraternity men and sorority women ;in our party and an even larger number of people who believe in fraternal brother hood, but let this not be the issue, rather, let the issue be to con vert what has been a student government by and for every student on our Carolina campus. This is a broad statement design ed to give you. ... the persons whose will is to be carried out . . . . the choice of how better student government may be at tained". Whether students are interest ed in politics or not, they should be interested in the allocation of their fees for entertainment and other activities, they, should be interested in the improvement of their honor system and they should be interested in represen tation in the student government that governs their affairs. The Student Party is interested in these things and has shown its interest in student welfare by inviting every student to come to its meetings to represent him self. An Indian named Shortcake died. That evening his friends came to bury him but his squaw objected. She said, "Squaw bury Shortcake." (Ouch!) Varieties. "Drink Canada Dry?" from a northbound flivver. Pelicaa. X
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