SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1946
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CHANCE FOR EXPANSION
There are 20,000 North .Carolina veterans waiting to get into
colleges and universities of this state.
Twenty-eight thousand certificates of eligibility for benefits
under the GI Bill of Rights have been issued to North Carolina
Veterans. Only 8,000 certificates, however, have been returned
to the VA signifying that a veteran is in school, and 1,000 of
these 8,000 veterans are receiving on-the-job training.
Universities are packed to the rafters. Our own is a good
example. Yet there are 20,000 more waiting to get in and they
have been waiting several years.
The National Education Association sponsored a conference
on veterans affairs in Chicago this month in which some very
interesting figures were brought to light. Before the war there
was a total of 1,500,000 students in colleges and universities of
the U. S. At present there are 1,750,000 and a peak enrollment
of 4 to 5 million is expected in 1950-55. A decline is expected,
but a levelling off at a figure around 3 million is predicted. An
increase of 100 even after-most of the veterans have finished.
i When we realize .that most private schools, as contrasted to
state institutions, operate on a set endowment and have no
funds for unlimited expansion, it becomes apparent that the
state controlled schools must assume the' responsibility for fur
nishing, increased facilities to answer the demand of more and
more students. This university today could have an enrollment
of ten thousand just as easy as the present four thousand or so.
If the Legislature wants to see this university remain a small
one, and if they want to see the sons of this state migrating to
other states, then we can understand their reluctance to ap
propriate money to build an extensive plant here. However, let
them not forget that the peak year is not expected until be
tween 1950 and 1955, and that the enrollment is expected to
level off at a figure twice what we are set up for. This is a per
manent situation.
The legislators may also say that many veterans are just go
ing to school until a job comes along. Let them remember that
any veteran can get $80 a month for 12 months while loafing out
side of school. x
Now is the time for action by the Legislature. ' "
Now is the time for Governor Cherry to show that he is the
"veterans governor." Now is the time for leadership in putting
this state and our state educational institutions into their right
f uf place in the nation
Let us work for more dormitories. '
Let's get those twenty thousand men into school. . A.
CLARK'S TIED TONGUE
The following is reprinted from Dave Clark's infamous Tex
tile Bulletin :
Our attention has been called to the following newspaper no
tice which we had overlooked :
Chapel Hill, N. C, March- 22. Approximately 35 officials,
members of local unions in North Carolina and South Carolina
affiliated with the American Federation of Hosiery Workers,
will attend a two-day leadership training institute to be con
ducted by the Federatio nat Chapel Hill Saturday and Sunday.
Giving assistance to union leaders in training organizers in
the best methods of disrupting manufacturing operations seems
to have become a regular function of the University of North
Carolina.
To the summer school for the training of union organization
a spring school has apparently been added. ,
There are now at the University of North Carolina many in
structors who are well versed, in various strike tactics because
they regularly attended meetings of the strikers of the Erwin
Cotton Mills, located at Durham, N. C, and assisted in keeping '
that strike alive for more than four months, during which the
strikers lost $2,500,000 in wages, without gaining a single pound.
The University of North' Carolina will ask the next legisla
ture to give it a large slice of the taxes collected from textile
mills located in North Carolina, hut its officials do not hesitate
to seize every opportunity to assist labor racketeers in becoming
efficient in promoting labor disturbances and strikes.
Service of United Press
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. . . Corner
Spring, 1945 . . .
The thought of Spring is in the
' " air ' : " "
But where are they who would
sing its song?
Where are they who would em
brace and drink
The warmth and breath of May?
In the silence of eternity
The souls of those made to sing
Of God and His creation.
Rest.
Where are the eyes that would
see the budding
Or the lips that would chant
their praise?
Where are the hands that would
trace with words
The scent, the sound, the sight
of May?
In shallow graves they lie,
Dunged flesh. .
On islands they rot,
Mid Europe's ruins
And in ocean's depth
They feed new life.
Thetfer dead,
The poets, the priests, the men
of thought,
Yes, and the housewives too.
All in uncounted number
They rot. - '
Perhaps beneath the volcanic
ash of Iwo Jima
A Shakespeare lies
His grave trembling
Under the weight of grumbling
machines.
The earthly Hell has passed.
Spring murmurs in the air
But they, the English, Germans,
Russians, w
Americans and Japanese,
Who might have heard
Are dead.
VINCENT B. WILLIAMS
Sound and Fury . . .
They hounded me for days and
days,
But I didn't want to suffer.
They bothered me in subtle ways
That could break a will much
tougher.
Yet I held out and screamed,
"No, no,
That sort of thing is not for me."
I cried I did not want to go,
But they insisted on this spree.
And so at last I said I'd go
To see The Sound and Fury
Show.
Sandy Minnix
Dementia Domain
Edited by Ray Conner
Poet
Here's to her eyes and her nose ;
Here's to her hair and her toes,
And just to get the best of her
Here's to all the rest of her.
The Twig.
The older generation thought
nothing of getting up at 5 o'clock
in the morning and the younger
generation doesn't think much of
it either. The Twig.
Women were made before mir
rors and have been before them
ever since.
The Technique.
It isn't what our girl knows
that bothers us it's how she
learned it. The Technique.
Famous short story:
She: Adieu.
He: You do?
Purdue Exponent
Writer Charges Disinterest
Among Majority of Students
Who Decide Election Result
By Dave McQueen
11 The opinions held by the major part of the campus are not
what the political parties would like to belieYe. For the most part,
the election of the proper man to ofiice rests mainly with a disin
terested majority. In this group are many new members of the
student body. They do not know who is running for an ofiice,
and, even if they do see the candidates name on a poster, they do
not know him personally.
The "LMOC" (the little man
on campus) then wonders. Which
'is worse Voting for a man I
know nothing about, or just not
to vote at all? His thought con
tinues: "What is the use of
standing in line for ten min
utes or so just to flatter some
"BMOC's" into thinking that
they are big shots. None of them
gives a da n about me or any
of the average students."
It is true that there are many
candidates with selfish motives
that will promise anything to
get into office. The reasons for
this are numerous. The first on
the list would include the wel
fare of the candidate himself.
He might be seeking food for an
over-inflated ego, or attempting
to build up his prestige for use
on the "outside" at the finish of
his schooling.
" There are many men to choose
from on the ballot. No one ex
pects the majority of the stu
dent body to know everyone for
whom they are voting. Yet, the
student body should feel a re
sponsibility for the men that
they appoint to office.
For the student in doubt at the
poll, the safest thing for him to
do is re-elect the men that have
proven efficient in their respec
tive offices. There are a few
men holding offices at the pres
ent that have shown that they
can give the most for the least,
in respect to student funds. It
has already been stated that the
World Affairs:
British Foreign
Condemned By
By Manny Margolis
Great Britain is suffering from a strange disease political
astigmatism. The British Government seems perfectly capable
of seeing very clearly in some directions while it remains blind
in others. For example, it deals blindly, in Spain, in Greece, in
Iran, in Palestine, and in Indonesia, while it demonstrates perfect
clarity of vision in its domestic policy.
tt J" i 1, Viq A n rrl i
can Churchill and the Garden of
Anthony Eden, the British peo
ple have embraced the anti
christ" of domestic Socialism.
The new government, after sev
eral months of Labor pains, has
reached puberty. This phase of
Socialist puberty is the peoples
choice over Tory poverty.
Riding high on the crest of a
war-victory wave, Winston
Churchill, for all his personal
popularity, was unable to main
tain his party in power. He and
the Conservatives were booted
out oh the grounds that the Brit
ish people were footing the bills
while' the government refused to
toe the mark on domestic policy.
a T'ahnr e-nvernment was ush
ered in a home run, a people's
hit, and a new era.
rru lotoaf fpnt. in the Labor
Government's effort for literal
home consumption feat for a
n tn sneak was its de-
rision. announced in Parliament,
to nationalize the nation's iron
and steel' industry. This enter
prise is valued at 800 millions of
dollars and employs 400,000
workers. It is the boldest step
inx trip imvernment has taken
VY UiVU w o
since its inception eight and a
half months ago, and is indubit
publications and entertainment
funds can be squandered, if the
wrong men get into key posi
tions of their control. Thousands
of dollars needlessly wasted from
which the Student Body would,
as a whole, would receive no
benefit therefrom. The responsi
bility for electing competent
men to these offices rests on the
average, disinterested student.
The little man on campus lives
in a dormitory. He has a com
paratively small circle of friends.
In his opinion,, he feels that
neither he nor his friends will
profit by voting either way. If
he follows through with his com
placency, and if his friends do
not care to vote either, the group
has as a whole, lost one of its
civil rights: The right to have
their say in Student Govern
ment. This fact is known in the
tight fraternity cliques and in
campus political machines work
ing for the f urtherment of them
selves alone, not for the better
ment of the campus and the Stu
dent Body. This fact they know,
and use to their advantage.
There are a few men that are
running for office that are dormi
tory men like you and me. They
have proved themselves to be ef
ficient in office, and feel respon
sible only to the Student Body as
a whole. They are not controlled
by machines or minority fac
tions. In view of the coming
elections, I feel a "word to the
wise is sufficient.
Relations
Columnist
ably stepping on some sensitive
Big Business corns.
The announcement produced
a storm of resentment among
His Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
The Conservative clouds were
quick to form and challenged the
Labor Government's "reign of
error." The thunder of Winston
Churchill himself was soon
heard, stating that "this House
(Parliament) is most astonish
ed." Those words will probably
go down in history as one of the
world's greatest masterpieces of
understatement and as one of the
finest specimens of political flab
bergastedness ! !
"Is this business or politics?",
roared the wartime Prime Min
ister with blood and sweat and
tears enveloping his world
famous countenance, which could
not quite countenance this Marx
ist attack on the British status
quo. Minister of Supply, John
Wilmot, replied with a single
bonmot, "Efficiency."
Roland Jennings, Conserva
tive M. P., who represents the
great armaments district of
Sheffield, could only voice his
tt
'grave apprehension." That
tt
fgrave apprehension" was soon
See WORLD AFFAIRS, page 4
"7a 7te Zdlta
Defends Symphony . . .
Dear Bob,
We regret that the person who
wrote the editorial on Dr. Swalin
and the North Carolina btate
Symphony was without enough
courage to sign his name or even
initial it. Therefore, rather than
write directly to this party we
must try to reach him through
the Daily Tar Heel.
We feel, after listening to the
concert which was brought to us
by the Student Entertainment
Committee on Monday evening
(which is quite capable of ap
pearing under its own auspices)
that this campus and indeed all
North Carolina should have
nothing but praise for Dr. Ben
jamin Swalin and the North
Carolina Symphony.
Dr. Swalin has devoted his un
tiring efforts to the building of
a symphony unique in that it is
partially state-supported and is
for the people of North Caro
lina. This symphony is giving ap
proximately 120 concerts within
the next ten weeks and no other
symphony, state or otherwise,
has ever undertaken such a tour.
A schedule like this speaks for
Dr. Swalin. Certainly it is only
the devotion which the person
nel has for him and a love of
music combined with a belief in
the symphony that would cause
the members to undertake such
a strenuous and yet almost un
remunerative undertaking for
them all.
Since when are the Cleveland,
San Francisco and Minneapolis
symphonies considered second
rate orchestras??? And where
did the author of said editorial
get this information? Certainly
he did not find it in "Musical
Courier," "Musical America" or
"Pacific Coast Musician."
Dr. Swalin has given the first
seats in the symphony to North
Carolinians who are capable and
deserving and for, anyone to say
that Mrs. Perky is not a sensi
tive violinist is nothing but one
person's opinion and we believe
that this opinion hardly war
rants a place on the editorial
page since it does not reflect the
opinion of the capacity crowd
which heard Dr. Swalin and the
symphony Monday night.
Mrs. Perky is one of the most
talented and hard working mu
sicians this state has to offer
and we sincerely believe any
state would be proud to claim
any musician who can perform
as concert mistress and then play
a Grieg piano concerto (which
the author of said article should
try sometime) with articulation
and feeling for the music that
few have mastered. Mrs. Perky
proved her mastery by perform
ing on a piano that is far from
the best.
The personnel plays together
twice daily and is capable of
greater finish. But what orches
tra isn't? The personnel has
changed very little in the past
few years except for the accept
ed loss of men at war. How can
this author reflect criticism upon
a conductor when an orchestra
does practically a top notch per
formance? A less banal performance !
What do top notch symphonies
play when thev
ham or Raleigh? Yes, Brahms,
Tschaikowsky, Wagner and all
the other so-called composers of
banal music! Has the said au
thor written a better modern
composition than "Maxeben?" If
so, maybe Swalin will perform
u Fniany. as far as Dr. Swalin's
talking down to the audience
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