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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1946 Making the Best of Things Tremendous is and will be the word for every phase of Caro lina life this fall. As we get away today on the first lap of the 1946-47 race for an education, crowds, lines, problems, head aches, and questions are strewn all over the path as obstacles that will make this the toughest season in Carolina's glorious pedantic history. University officials and students have no precedent to follow this year. The number of students so far exceeds any previous group that even comparison is remote. Everyone is still in the "feel your way along" stage, and some of us will continue to grope in the dark for some time probably. Places to live are non-existent. Places to eat are far too few and far too crowded. Classes will be too large for maximum ef ficiency. Students will be standing in long, sometimes hot, sometimes wet lines. Schedule problems, veterans' problems, financial problems may all arise. But all of these difficulties are not the result of lack of fore sight or preparation on somebody's part. The University is trying to give every possible chance to every eligible student to come to school. Whether or not the administration is right in choosing to be criticized for overcrowding facilities rather than be criticized for not allowing students to enter and keeping en rollment at a leisurely minimum is a matter of opinion. One thing is certain criticism would come in either case. . , Tempers are likely to grow shorter and smiles may be wiped off a lot of faces by the tension caused by the growing pains of the day as everyone seeks solace from his own difficulties. In the face of all these troubles it would be well for each of us to remember the spirit of friendliness and comradeship that has always prevailed on the Carolina campus. Also remember that the administration doesn't like the con fusion any more than the students. They're also involved in the complicated problems and are working hard in an effort to do something about them. If anyone can solve some of these current difficulties, the solutions will be welcomed. The load on their shoulders is a heavy one. University of ficials have been pondering over these problems longer than we've been standing in line. They're in the unpleasant spot of seeing all of the difficulties and realizing many of them are well- nigh unsolvable. With friendliness and cooperativeness as a keynote, not only among individual students, but also between students and ad ministration, all of us can make the best of what we have for the coming year and make it as pleasant as possible for all concerned. DTH Policy This newspaper today is serving more people than ever be fore in its history. In these times, it must serve faithfully and accurately as a voice of and for the student body of the Univer sity of North Carolina throughout a year that promises to be a most trying one. We fully realize that The Daily Tar Heel is faced with no small task this year in supplying the student body with an ac curate, unbiased account of campus happenings. But those of us on the staff pledge ourselves to do our utmost to serve you earnestly and faithfully. The editorial page will have no room this year for any per sonal or selfish comments. Controversial subjects will arise this year at every turn and our opinions will be forthcoming on all of these. At times we will criticize what we consider im proper action from any quarter, but in all cases every issue will be investigated thoroughly before any comment is made and we will attempt to picture both sides of every argument when the occasion warrants it. All of the opinions appearing in the edit columns are those of the newspaper. A "Letters to the Editor" column has always been a feature of this paper and will continue as such.' Our only request is that the letters be signed and less than 350 words in length. It's going to be a big year. We shall do our best to bring you every feature of it to the best of our ability. The official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina Chapel gn. where it is published daily, except Mondays, examination and vacation periods; during the official summer terms, it is published semi-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays, altered as second-class matter at the poet office at Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of Harch 8, 1879. Subscription price: 15.00 per college year. COMPLETE LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP UNITED PRESS The opinions expressed by the columnists are their own and not neces sarily those of The Daily Tar Heel. BILL WOESTENDIEK Editor ROLAND GIDUZ Managing Editor IRWIN SMALLWOOD . - Sports Editor BILL SELIG ..... .. Business Manager BURTON MYERS Circulation Manager Associate Editor : Ray Connor. Assistant Editors : Gene Aenchbacher, Fred Flagler, Eddie Allen. Editorial Staff: Matt Hodgson, R. H. Hamilton, Jud Kinberg, Bob Jones, Sam Daniels, Bob Finehout, Bettie Washburn. Desk Editfr: Barron Mills. News Staff : Boy Moose, Darley Lochner, Jo Pugh, J. C. Green, Arnold Schulman, Burke Shipley, Bob Morrison, Sam Whitehall, Helen Highwater. Night Sports Editors: Howard Merry. Bob Goldwater, Jim Pharr. Subscription Manages: Brantley A. McCoy, Jr. Business Staff: Suzanne Barclay, Ed ParneU. Natalie Selig. Barbara Thorson. Strowd Ward. To All Students The following is a digest of a letter to all students written by Fred H. Weaver, Dean of Men. The very' timely letter pre sents the University's viewpoint on the present overcrowded situation. The University has been challenged to provide the education that has been promised veterans. It has answered the challenge by adopting the policy of ad mitting all worthy students way beyond its normal capacity. The University has chosen to strain all its facilities rather than deny admittance to qualified candidates. The manifold problems that exist in the management of hous ing and goverrfment will have to be solved by individual stu dent action. All of it can't be done by the University. Self government is the primary need and requirement. No matter where you live, you are urged to maintain every precaution to keep clean, well, and out of accidents. Voluntary rules for maintaining these conditions along with a provision for study hours should be instituted as soon as possible. It's the only way. It's up to you. Strictly Detrimental ... . Registration Line Is First Sign That Troubled Year Is Ahead By Jud Kinberg Ever since this week's Terrible Tuesday of Registration, I've had all my voluble time taken up with defending the reputation of the University of North Carolina. It seems that the hundreds of boys who were drenched in Tuesday morn ing's downpour as they waited for the line to start moving into Woollen Gym insist that University registration machinery has reached a new low of efficiency. Now I don't think that's true. The fact is that the people re sponsible were as ineffective and un- - imaginative as usual; they just had more men to be inefficient with. Any way, a good dose of frustration so early in the quarter is a good way of letting Carolina's pitifully overcrowd ed student population know that any ideas they may have about enjoying school are as wild as an Army Recruit ing Officer's promises. You've all been warned now, so the University expects to hear no more beefing. South Building is go ing to keep a close watch on chronic complainers, starting with the men who dislike killing Friday or Satur day buying books at the underman ned and obviously inadequate Book .ex. For the many hundreds with Army- Navy waiting still too fresh in their memories, Tuesday's debacle was a grim reminder that civilians can throw a mean line too. One group of hardy souls padded through the rooster early morning to reach the gym at 4:30 that's A.M. Sprawled over tables and chairs, they waited patient ly, serene in the knowledge that they would be the first. "In and out in time for nine o'clock breakfast" was the battle cry. The spirit resembled that of night-watchers at World Series bleacher gates. Seven o'clock brought some light with it and the boys were joined by more and more returning students. Bq seven thirty there was the hustle of preliminary activity and by eight everything was ready! Ready for a conglomeration of foot ball players, student helpers and a small coterie unknown to anyone who slipped through the tight noose of of ficialdom. As these chosen two hun dred passed into the creaking regis tration machinery, a typical Chapel Hill rain swept over the long line of men and, women waiting impatiently outside Woollen Gymnasium. It failed to cool the air and perversely added fuel to the small fires of indignation already burning in the minds of the thousand would-be registrees. By nine the line started to move and like a ponderous snake emerging from summer hibernation, Carolina students enrolled for their courses. The snake kept uncoiling all through the afternoon and on into the next two days. Why over five hundred students were left outside to be drenched in the downpour is a question that will take a lot of answering. Certainly it would have been worth upseting the machinery just a little to get them in under temporary cover. From what I've heard about the armed forces, such outdoor shower- ing facilities were frowned on even there. If the University is set for a policy of non-consideration, it will find its hard-won reputation blasted. While this is only an incident, it is dangerous for the future of Caro lina because it may well be syptomatic of an unhealthy attitude this post war flood of students has caused. That is, the thought that since UNC is jammed now with many men and women eagerly awaiting a chance to enter school, there is no need for even basin consideration of student com fort or convenience. If that is ,so, we will lose our most important asset: the graduate who constantly praises the way of life and study at Chapel Hill. Word-of-mouth advertising has played a pro digious part in popularizing this school throughout the nation. It has resulted iii a steady flow of students from all parts of the United States with the resultant invigorating and beneficial atmosphere created by the merging of the nation's many cul tures. Reverse English, spoken by those who leave Carolina, can quickly shat ter UNC's fine reputation and reduce it to the mediocre level of so many southern colleges. ysTux4o vk&cT "Yer lucky if 8 cloth. Mine was paper an it wore out. 'Cepr. 1946 by UmUd Fatvr Sync. Ine. Ka U. 5. Pt. Off. Ail rights rnrd Short, Short Story .... Rain-Soaked Columnist Finds His Troubles Just Beginning By Tookie Hodgson After a brief respite from the rigors of a college education I hopped aboard Tallulah Lou, my faithful Tennessee hump-backed quadruped and loped down from the mountains into the fertile land known as North Carolina, that valley of humidity which lies between Virginia and South Carolina, those two moun tains of conceit. Stopping only for an occasional bale of oats and bottle of brew, my trusty steed and I presently approached the environs of the ancient hamlet of Chapel Hill, seat of the University of North S K Tab eeping i aos .... with Randy "Hey, how you?" That's a sentence you'll hear a lot around the Carolina campus during the next year. And, the editor and my marks willing, "Keeping Tabs" is a column you'll see often in the DTH. What I've got to say in this pillar of foolery, philos ophy, and sometimes social signifi cance may not agree with the edi torial policy of this paper but this is where we get a chance to say it. So, along with the new buildings, strange routine and white sweat ers with saddle shoes, Kbw about getting acquainted with "Tabs." Frankly, I talk about anything that comes into my head. Sometimes it'll be the movies, sometimes vet erans' problems, sometimes jokes, and sometimes pretty green corn. AIsp .... I may use dots .... like this .... once in a while .... like the gossip columnists to show that I have also .... been to the Stork Club. See KEEPING TABS, page 8. Carolina and many other things as well. As soon as we had crossed the city limits of the aforementioned metropolis, we were greeted with the peculiar but unusual spectacle of a tumultuous downpour accompanied by a bright hot sun. Here I made a sage observation, "I must procure a seafaring vessel if I were to continue in my quest for a higher education." Therefore, I left Tallulah Lou to shift for her scrawny self and suiting the action to the thought, in no time I was in command of a staunch little craft which I, appropriately named the "Lost Weekend." Immediately, I veered my boat into a rapid stream ot water sometimes known as Franklin street, and stop ping only to haul a few struggling freshmen from the briny deep I pres ently arrived by devious means at a building formally named "Old South" but more aptly termed, "Casa Con fusion." Presiding over this aged edifice was one of those curious people known as advisers. Now, if there was anything that I needed at the moment it was advice, so I got myself hence forth with, and confronted the gentleman, who was none other than Dr. Rotten borough Belfrey, the jovial professor of English malt making, who had set the world on fire with his stirring three-volume work on "The Anglo- Saxon Word for Duck-Billed Platy bus, It's Connotations and Implica tions Appertaining to the Present Rice Crossword Puzzle 4KIWKR TO PttEVIOCS PCZZLB ACROSS 1 Bankroll (slang) 4 West Indian tribe 9 Monkey 12 Stray 13 The end 14 Inquire 15 Taking no side 17 Fall from grace 19 Sweethearts (Ir.) 20 Hawaiian royalty 21 Signet 23 Blister 28 Comb, form: on 27 Scotch oatmeal 28 Symbol for calcium 29 Free of 50 Angle 31 Tale man 32 Southern State abbr.) 83 Due 84 Exclamation ot regret 85 A left-over 87 Rugged crest 38 Tall grass 39 Astringent 40 Exhausted 42 Food 45 Legume 48 Girl's nam 48 Recent 49 Conjunction 60 Racket 51 Also E M BlRlV -JFLUMe Ay.Rj5TTe.EP EE Ill If NE "ar laei REAM SjA Nj IkBA iTLEl F R E E "lioB.L I M itR N i A I ROAM lAPAlT R A pi k aC2Jn I EIRE I Ql s uc e p s Jc jv AS O R A C JL Q4 IE MOR Ijtl O S HjE R st IoIlIe" wear"y i 12 T"" h s (? 7" a" d io 177" 2 IS 14 is : " ' 77 rT is r" I -rrz LLl !!LL 38 - HO 41 42 41 44 222 45 4 41 2Q HQ H9 50 ; 51 DOWN 1 Skin growth 3 Land measure 8 Stupefied 4 Ocean growth 6 Indian nurses 8 Relative (abbr.) 7 Inspector general (abbr.) 8 Stabilize 9 Tasty 10 Beast ot burden 11 Famed general's nickname 18 Singing group 18 Helper 20 Parallel to 21 Sorghum 22 Book of Homer 23 Goose-like bird 24 Notoriety 25 Lift 27 Sightless 30 Add sugar 31 A fundamental 33 Sign 34 Plant genus 38 Fear 37 Put in row 89 Beverages 40 Resort 41 Trap 42 Baba 43 Prefix; new 44 Dual 47 Behold! Krispie Shortage in Bangkok, Siam." . "Greetings, Hodgson," cried the doughty pedagogue flipping a scooner of nut brown ale into my palsied hand. "What can I do for you?" "Everything, cher maitre," I an swered. "But first where do I sleep, where do I eat and what courses shall I pursue?" "Well, now let's see. Brother Hodgson," began Dr. Belfrey in a thoughtful wise. "We can let you have a nice abandoned pigeon cote located on a farm only seven miles from Chapel Hill. It's a comfortable thing that is, if you like pigeons. Also, the place is under a water fall, so there's running water all the time! The rent is only twenty dollars a day, but of course you'll want a roof of some sort so there'll be a slight additional charge of $1,000 per quarter for that little item!" "It sounds wonderful. I'll take it, good doctor. But tell me, pray, where shall I dine?" "Ah now, Hodgson, don't mention eating around here. We University of ficials have decided to confront the food shortage here in a most unique manner. Heretofore, unwary students embarking on the unpaved water filled walks of Chapel Hill have regu larly drowned and all because of tra dition! Well, from now on there will be a strict tradition against eating. "It seems to us that if students are willing to drown for tradition they most certainly wouldn't mind starving for tradition!" "Hear, hear!" I cried, singing aloud "Hark! The Sound" and crying profusely in my love for our dear old Alma Mater and her sacred traditions. "But tell me, sir," I sobbed, "what courses will I be permitted to take this fall?" "That is the question, my loyal student," replied Professor Rotten borough Belfrey. "However, here is a brief schedule which I have out lined for you. First of all, there's English I. That meets, in Kenan Stadium between the halves of foot ball games. Then there's history. That meets under the counter at. Harvey's. Lastly you will take phy sics. That meets at Oak Ridge, Tenn. No, Dammit! It meets at Hiroshima. Oh Hell! That's not right It meets in the projection room of the Carolina Theatre. Yes, yes, that's where it meets." "Professor," I cried, "I thank you for your help in these Important mat ters. But tell me, are you teaching any subjects this year?" No, Brother Hodgson," replied Dr. Belfrey, "I've decided to go out for football. There's more money in it." "Tsk, tsk!" I spoke, "There ain't no justice." Whereupon a group of battered football scrubs replied in hurt, digni fied tones, "the hell you say. We just been playing with him." Exeunt Omnes.
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