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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1946 Success It has been more than a century and one-half since Hintoir James, the only University of North Carolina student who never had tq stand in line, brougnt his battered valise to Chapel Hill. In what was little more, than a clearing in the scrub pine and popular, the State University opened its doors. There were no quonset huts, no tents. The arboretum was merely a light in the eye of some enterprising acorn. Indeed, the only point of similarity between the University of 153 years ago and that which saw yesterday's impressive academic procession to Memorial Hall is that even in those days they were building. On October. 12, 1793, the cornerstone of Old East was laid. ' Yes, they were building, and one need have only attended yesterday's Convocation to know the success of their efforts in things surpassing cold masonry. For that matter, one need only see the teeming campus, packed with the largest enrollment in history almost 7,000 persons from 44 states and 18 nations to appreciate the meaning of work, hard work over the years and the greatness of the University. Even the most blase could hardly have failed to be moved by yesterday's Memorial hall program. Even the most dis-satisfied children of U.N.C.'s currently "Old-Woman-in-the-Shoe" family must have felt some pride in being a part of such an Institution. For, though some may call this a trying period for the Univer sity of North Carolina, it is, on the contrary, simply its op portunity to serve. Its periods of trial, and it had many, are over, and despite inevitably clogged machinations of its admini strative apparatus,' it is now doing its greatest job. Words of dissenters, notwithstanding, it is, under the circumstances, do ing a good job, a very good job. . The trowel which laid the cornerstone of Old East is long-since dust, but now the figurative trowel of those many people who would chink the crack and add to the physical and spiritual Uni versity is as work again. It is working more industriously than ever, and toward that goal of ever-beyond a greater Carolina. One Extra Day We want to get right behing the student legislature's first move last night and add our voice to the recommendation that will be presented to the administration asking that the Christ mas holidays be extended one day until January 3. Certainly, the loss of one day will not throw the schedule plan ners into confusion. We understand that the schedule was ar ranged as it stands in order to make the three quarters even and assure 'a 12-week summer school term next summer. It is our feeling that the one day can be lost without any undue suffering anywhere along the line, but if the officials feel that we cannot afford to lose the day, surely the students will not object to having the day added to the end of the year. One day more or less in June or some time during the spring won't cause any grievences among the students. Spring is the nicest time of year here anyway. Extending the vacation period is certainly the logical thing to do. All arguments are in favor of such a move and no really strong reason can be given for not doing so. Not only will the students be able to spend New Year's Day at home, wherever that home may be, but they will also avoid much of the celebrat ing crowd that is sure to jam all conceivable modes of trans portation. Coming back to Chapel Hill just one day later will assure stu dents of a pleasant New Year's at home and a safer, more com fortable trip back to school. South Building officials have the op portunity to make it possible. The official newspaper of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 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. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscription price: $5.00 per college year. COMPLETE LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF UNITED PRESS The opinions expressed by the columnists are their own and not neces sarily those of The Daily Tar Heel. BILL WOESTENDIEK BOLAND GIDUZ IRWIN SMALLWOOD BILL SELIG BURTON MYERS Associate Editors: Gene Aenchbacher, Fred Flagler, Eddie Allen. Editorial Statp: Matt Hodgson, R. H. Hamilton. Jud Kinberg, Bob Jones, Sam Daniels, Bob Finehout. Bettie Washburn. Desk Editor: Barron Mills. Hews Statf: Roy Moose, Darley Lochner, Jo Pugh, J. C. Green, Arnold Schulman, Burke Shipley, Bob Morrison, Vic Robinson, Fran Walker, Bill Jabine, Sam Summerlin, Eddie Blankstein, Sam Whitehall, Helen Highwater. Night Editors; Barron Mills, Bill Sexton. Might Sports Editors: Howard Merry. Bob Goidwater. Jim Pharr. Subscription Manager: Brantley A. McCoy, Jr. Business Staff: Suzanne Barclay, Ed Parnell. Natalie Sellg, Barbara Thonon. Strowd Ward. FOR THIS Nirht Editor: Bill Sexton v - Story Editor Managing Editor Sports Editor Business Manager Circulation Manager ISSUE Sports: Bob Goldwater Strictly Detrimental Old and New Student Leaders Hold Key to Era of Expansion By Jud Kinberg Prophet of Tarheelia, Thomas Wolfe, stated in beautifully sonorous prose that the moment and event are transient things which can never be recap tured. Beauties of the past reach such heights in the mid that return home only brings disallusionment. Four and 'five years of Carolina students are probably finding the truth behind Wolf's poetry. Out where the LST's and LSM's scurried like ants around their hill, Tar Heels ' helloed to each other over the waters of the Pacific, told stories of "how it was back in Chapel Hill. . .how it will be." Even if UNC was still the idyllic, 2,000-man college, it would not satis f y the dreams of returnees. Truth is that since they left, the school has mushroomed into an educational f ac tory for better or worse. Resultant dissappointment, coupled with heavy study schedules have kept many campus leaders of the past from engaging in extra-curriculars. It has meant that men with years of pre vious experience are not in student government and publications at a time when such helpers are most needed. This is the year that can see Caro lina back on the road to effective, self government or may well see us lose so greater a portion of our vigor that the residue will be ineffective sham. As for publications, they seem to be re gaining their excellence. The TAR HEEL under Woestendiek and Manag ing Editor Giduz has become more than a campus whipping boy. Instead, it's voice is once more reckoned with among students and in South Build ing. , But no matter what the present con dition of any of our jealously-guarded student activities, an infusion of trained men could only have beneficial results. Getting back into activities isn't an easy thing. After some years of work ing on campus, many of the return ing students feel that they have out- ined their time for extra-curriculars, would be superfluous among the new generation of leaders that has been de veloped. Overcoming that feeling on part of both parties is a delicate opera tion, but one which is worth while. Men on campus are wearing class rings from three and four years ago. f the old and new leaders can ef ectively cooperate -to the common good, even the discouraging atmos phere of "hurry-and-hustle" can be overcome and the Legislature, Di, Carolina Magazine, CPU, IRC and many other important extra-curricular activities will enter an era of greater expansion. Such well-supported expansion can prove vitally im portant to retention of the most im portant facts of the way of life we've associated with Carolina. Republicans Prepare To Capitalize Loudly on Present Meat Situation By United Press President Truman isn't talking to the people now on the meat crisis. But the Republicans are, in a loud chorus of "I told you so's." They're not bashful about it either. Up and down the land, they're going telling the story of how they fought to exempt meat from the price con trol extension act. How they pre dicted the controls would paralyze the industry. And how instead of keeping prices down it would keep supplies down. Says Representative Charles Halleck, aggressive chairman of the Republican Congressional commit ee: "We tried to warn that in war time, scarcity leads to controls, but that in peacetime, controls can. lead to scarcities. "And that's just what's happen ing." Halleck made no bones about it that the meat shortage and the scarcity of other commodities, has been like manna from heaven for the Republicans in the current elec tion campaigns. "Thing really are breaking our way now," he says. Just finished with a cross-country campaign pep tour, Halleck tells of this incident: He came. to a district where the Republicans long ago had given up any hope of making any inroads in the Democratic control. It was a highly industrialized area, and only a token Republican campaign was planned because of the apparent hopelessness of beating the Demo cratic candidate. But reports start ed coming in a few weeks ago of a sharp change in sentiment. A pri vate group was hired p conduct a poll in the area. Two questions were asked: Are you satisfied with the way things are being run in Washing ton? and, Will you vote for the Democratic or Republican candi On other campuses . . . Poughkeepsie, N. Y. (LP.) Male students from the local community who served in the armed forces have enrolled at Vassar College along with the women students. The decision to admit local veterans to Vassar classes was made in re sponse to Governor Dewey's appeal to New York State colleges and uni versities to exert every efiort to help former servicemen continue their ed ucation The admission of men will be limited to the period of overcrowd ing of educational institutions be cause of the return of veterans. Although Vassar classes have for many years been open to men of the community as listeners, this is the first time that men have been allow ed to study there for academic credit. Granville, O. (LP.) Denison Uni versity has adopted the core curricu lum to mark a forward step in its academic history, President Kenneth Brown has announced. For the past two years the Next Denison Decade committee has been studying the var ious phases of Denison's proposed growth and has devoted considerable time to the new plan of basic courses of study to prepare its graduates for intelligent citizenship. In appraisal of the new. plan, Dean C. F. Richards, who will put it into operation, stated that it will afford a better balanced education, provid ing sufficient specialized training for the student to pursue graduate or pro fessional study or to follow a career in teaching or in business. New requirements call for a min imum of 49 hours of general or core courses plus 24 to 36 hours in a stud ent's major field, and the remainder of the 120 academic hours in elec- tives. Credits allowed for physical training and chapel bring the total to 128, the present requirement for a bachelor's degree. Cambridge, Mass. (LP.) Plans to bring Harvard's American students into closer intellectual and social con tact with the 396 foreign students dates to Congress? "To our surprise," says Halleck, 75 per cent said they were dissat isfied with the Washington govern ment. And to our complete as tonishment, 52 per cent said they'd vote for the0 Republican candidate. "Now we're planning an intensive campaign in that district. No, I can't tell you where it is. The Demo cratic candidate is still pretty con fident there, and we want him to stay that way." To Halleck, of course, the basic reason for the shortage is the con tinuation of .the meat controls. Many people disagree with him. "The administration," he says, "is trying to sidetrack this. But to my mind it isn't working. The peo ple know that the Democrats were in full control of the administra tion of the law. The Republicans voted almost solidly for decontrol of meat." Of course, the Democrats are con testing the idea that the controls alone are responsible. They charge that the Republican opposition to price control extension, and especial ly the lapse in controls for almost a month, is causing most of our trou ble now. But even down-the-line OPA Democratic supporters are backing down from the- poistion they took during the Congressional debate. They're conceding now that if the public isn't supporting the controls, they won't work. Just like during prohibition. Democratic political leaders are begging for something to be done. And from all indications some thing will be done. The political and economic pressure piling up on the administration is just too great to let things slide much longer. And where there's so much smoke there's bound to be some fire. All this flurry of talk and conferences going on at the White House just doesn't add to "no action." Carolina Merry-Go-Round By The seating mess at Kenan Stadium is in our opinion so messy that the whole subject of compulsory membership in the CAA be examined. It is ap parent that Director R. A. Fetzer looks upon the $6.90 "football fee" paid by each student in the fall quarter as a student obligation. Admitted that $6.90 is a reasonable figure, much lower than one would have to pay for a season ticket to the Chicago Bears home games, admitted that it is a pleasure to watch the Tar Heels in action, I still think Director Fetzer assumes too much. Perhaps we and many other stud- ents who sat behind the goal line at the VPI game were just too an xious to see every detail of play but that magical communication be tween a college football team and a student body is hard to main tain at great distance. I accept the opinion of Director Fetzer that his ticket scramble can't be unscram bled beyond the partial remedy of temporary stands this falL It would give me great pleasure to see a def inite statement at this time by. Di rector Fetzer on the seating ar rangements for Carolina students next fall. Chancellor House cor rectly termed the matter as being, "a great error." Let us have speci fic assurance that the great error is not repeated in 1947. The almost unprecedented ovation j given to Dr. Graham in Memorial Hall yesterday was the means by which thousands of . students could ex press their devotion as well as their hearty welcome. The whole convoca tion was without doubt one of the finest and best planned that has taken place on any campus. May we, see more convocations, like yesterday's. Frank Graham stands for the liberal tradition in all its breadth of vision and just disspassion. Such men make Chapel Hill the seat of learning that it is. Chapel Hill's most expensive course costs one of us $12 a quar ter. It meets for two hours every afternoon and some evenings. A few days ago one of the visiting lec turers, Mr. Ben Hecht, gave us a surprising afternoon. The course languished this summer. The lec turers emphasized the same points again and again, "Crime Don't Pay," "Its Better To Be Beautiful," "Love Will Out." Mr. Hecht's lecture neither concern ed the fabulously rich nor the amus ing poor. After taking copious notes we were unable to distinguish the hero from the villain, usually the sim plest part of the course. Our con gratulations to Dean E. Carrington Smith of the Hollywood-American Theater Department. Honest, Dean Smith, we only heard three students asking, "Where are d' Dean's cow boys an' induns?" attending the university have been put into effect by the Harvard Counselor for Foreign Students Office. Among features of the program are a foreign students' lounge in the Phillips Brooks House and installa tion of newspaper racks in various parts of the university which will contain publications from almost ev ery country in the world. In addition, university housing au thorities have announced they will continue to emphasize a policy re cently established of placing foreign students into dormitory suites with Americans. ON THE Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1 and 6 Famed - American game 9 What backs do 13 Wild buffalo IS Arouse 14 Ibsen heroine 15 French article 18 Stuff IS Belief 20 Observed 33 Horned deer S3 Ancient 34 Balances 37 Obliterate , 38 Chicago football team 30 Raised railway 31 Man's nickname 83 Kicks football S3 Greek letter 34 Pronoun 85 Top of wooden stand 38 What catcher uses 37 Oermlets 80 Mood 40 What banks do 41 Took part la game 44 West Pointer 43 Playthings 47 Nickel (symb.) 43 Brew 49 Indian tribe 1 Vein of metal 63 Spoil 84 Money paid on lease 88 Tamed "hurry-up" eoaeh ' 2 I3 M I I' I 17 I I 1 9 lio In " a I h i? 21 ?7? U ' 1 T 2M " 25 26 wjr Ml MJ 5 Vh 55 Bob Jones Jlettete lite Sditoi Suggestions Dear Sir: May I offer two suggestions to help shorten the lines which are so preval ent on this campus at registration and at mealtime? 1. Have pre-reglstration for the fall session during the preceding June. Many of the students last year went home during the summer vacation and missed the August pre-registra-tion. Besides, a lot of the summer stu dents were school teachers, brushing up on school courses and who did not plan to attend the fall quarter. 2. Reopen the Grill Room in the basement of Graham Memorial. I un derstand the Grill Room was opened about two years ago, but was closed down again. Most of the facilities for cooking meals are in the Grill Room, and it shouldn't take much extra money to refix the room on a cafeteria basis. Because a boarding house in town closed its doors this summer, the 50 odd students who ate there are now eating in overcrowded Lenoir. The Grill Room is located near the following dormitories: Battle-Vance-Pettigrew, "Alderman, Spencer,' Mc Iver, Kenan, Old West, Old East, and Smith. It would also be convenient to many students who live in trailers and in town, who dislike eating at the high-priced, unsanitary restaurants downtown. I also believe that Martha Rice attempted to open the Grill last year, but South Building refused with the excuse that the two small dining rooms in Lenoir were not filled. In the Sunday Tar Heel I also saw that the University wishes to spend $234,000 for a new addition to Lenoir Hall. It doesn't take much observation to see that Lenoir is now packed to the hilt with students. Why not make simple additions to the Grill Room at less cost than add an expensive wing to Lenoir? Sincerely, EVELYN SHUDDE LOTS OF POWER Harry Bonk, 1945 letterman and regular fullback, and Reds Wright, 1941 and 1942 powerhouse, are the dynamite boys on the Maryland Old Liner team which plays North Caro lina's Tar Heels here Saturday. Dick Toler and Earl Roth, the latter a rookie, are other Maryland fullbacks who move hard and fast. A general .who had just returned from overseas said to his buxom wife as she stretched and strained trying to put on her girdle: "My Dear, you remind me of the Battle of the Bulge." 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