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Page Two It's A Holiday Elsewhere Ogden Nash once wrote: Thanksgiving, like ambassadors, cabinet-officers and others smeared with political ointment. Depends for its existence on Presidential appoint ment. To which we might add, "and the men responsible for making out the University class schedule." In all seriousness, Thanksgiving is one of our traditional and most-honored holidays. It existed long before the University of North Carolina was ever conceived. Certainly, any opinion to the contrary not withstanding, the present generation has much for which to be thankful. We have much more than did our fore fathers who weathered snow and cold -to gather and observe Thanksgiving Day. Can it be that the present generation is moving so swiftly that we can no longer stop to be grateful for all the benefits of our existence? We don't believe so. If the flood of letters to this newspaper is any indication, the modern students are very much 4 concerned about Thanksgiving. The churches, the townspeople, the citizens of the nation all will observe Thanksgiving tomorrow. Yet, the University can not stop for one day. And we think the University as such has plenty for which to be extremely thankful and grateful. Many members of our student body haven't been home for Thanksgiving in many years. And Thanksgiving has, always been a time for family get-togethers. The warm, friendly scene of the whole family gathered around the table at Thanksgiving is more than just a picture to be painted by artists and capitaliz ed on by movie writers. It is one of the basic ingredients that make up our wholesome American life. Yet, the schedule was planned with apparently no foresight. It would have been so easy to stick in another day at the begin ning or end of the quarter. But no, the University will not stop for Thanksgiving Day. It will not stop even for one hour. The local churches are sponsoring a Community Thanksgiv ing service tomorrow morning. If you have a 10 .o'clock class, you're not supposed to cut. When religion, education, and com mon sense can't get along, something is drastically amiss. In this case, the University is dead wrong. Since the men in charge of our education seem intent on ignor ing one of America's most spirited holidays one that is prob ably second only to Christmas among American families we want to go on record as urging the professors and instructors . on .this campus to give all their classes cuts tomorrow. If they deem this unwise or impractical for any reason, let them at least forget to take the roll. No individual can be condemned to morrow for cutting a class because he wants to observe Thanks giving for such observance is our sacred right. Let the blame be placed where it rightfully belongs on the group responsible for deciding to ignore Thanksgiving. No Pity Here We don't feel that we are being one bit cold-blooded or that the University has fallen down on any of its responsibilities in expelling the student responsible for attempting to counterfeit Tommy Dorsey tickets. In a letter to the editor appearing on this page earlier this week, one of the members of the student body wrote criticizing what he called the process of cold'and simple revenge taken against the culprit. What course are we to take? Certainly, the University of North Carolina is not to be considered as a reform school, or an institution for those for fail to meet up to the standards of recognized society. There are far too many deserving students waiting a chance to attend the University that we should put up with any violation of the honor system or the campus code. Tb official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where it & published daily, except Mondays, examination and vacation periods; Sarin the official summer terms, it is published seani-weekly on Wednesday and Saturdays. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Chanel Bill, H. C, ander the act of March 8, 1S79. Subscription price: $5.00 per college year. COMPLETE LEASED WIRE SEEVICE OP UNITED PRESS The pinions expressed by the columnists are their own and not neces sarily those of The Daily Tar HeeL BILL WOESTENDIEK . SOLAND OIDUZ Sound Track .... Why Do Screen Writers Give Us Such Unpalatable Dishes? By Bob Finehout 4 How two screen writers presumably free from mental anemia could expect the deserving ticketholder to consume a' distasteful porridge like "No Leave, No Love" is a wonder to this department. Not in recent months, has such a wheezy, artistically tuberculin, show hit these provinces. It even puts the consumptive "Easy to Wed" in the shade. If MGM had been content to let that adroit comedian, Keenan Wynn, dominate the scene, "No Leave, No Love" might have been palatable, but time and time again his heroic efforts are undermined by episodes a grade' school drama club wouldn't touch with Marriage Curriculum I Using Student Money a ten-foot pole. The height of idiocy is reached when Van Johnson learns that his girl, referred to as "Funnyface," has ratted on him and married another guy. Van's mother, who suffers from a malady Philip Wylie dubbed "Momism," takes him to breakfast and with quivering chin breaks the 'news. Mustering up a pathetic expression T I eepmq i aos .... with Randy Dear "nephew." Of course, all of this will seem strange to you because you don't know me yet. As a matter of fact, there isn't very much that you do know except that you've come into a new world through the eternal mystery of birth. No doubt you'll grow that a Christian martyr might have I up to call me "Uncle Randy," and envied, Van stares off into space. The HI be a part of your coming world waitress who has been hanging a- Eight now however, your entire con- round, trying like hell to get their cept of the world is surrounded by order, comes up to the table and says, your crib, and the warmth and com "Have you made up your mind, sir?" fort of your Mother and Father. Van sets his jaw and answers firmly, But, sooner or later, you'll have Yes, I've made up my mind." The to leave that world and you'll come Dear Bill. We who are writing are sure that you and many of your readers are very much concerned about the alarmingly high rate of divorce throughout the country tnd the increasing instability and breakdown of marriage and family life. In that connection we believe that you will be interested to learn that the courses of study here at the University for the training of qualified teachers of marriage and family relations has recently been discontinued. This graduate-level curriculum for marriage teacher-training was the on ly one of its sort in the country, and was widely recognized for its excel lence and value. The, recent death of the University's internationally known teacher and writer on marriage and family life, Dr. Ernest R. Groves, was the immediate cause of the discontmu ance of this unique and valuable pro gram. Because the adequate education and gudiance of our young people as to the principles and conditions of successful marriage is recognized to be of great value in establishing healthy marital relationships from the start and thus of great help in preventing marital breakdown, the training of more and qualified teachers in the marriage field is vitally important to us all. We should like to suggest that the University re-establish its valuable teacher-training curriculum in marri age, by setting up a first-rate division or department or institute of marri age here. If that is done within a rea sonably short period of time a sense of continuity with the nationally recog nized work of Dr. and Mrs. Groves can be preserved. Our object in writing is to bring the great need for such training to the attention of the student body and to stimulate interest and discussion as to the possibilities of re-establishing and extending the marriage teacher-training program of the University. Yours sincerely, DAVID ANDREWS waitress thinks it 11 probably be a double order of hotcakes, but we know that the statement has more signifi cance. And the young lady who has been his chaste consort for .90 min utes running time, Miss Pat Kirk wood, is stuck with more than the check. Van Johnson, who, I suppose, has considerable acting ability ten mil lion bobby-soxers can't be wrong turns in a singularly barren job as the jilted Marine. He has, however, taken the switch from Air Forces pilot to gyrene in his stride, al though half the time I expected Spencer Tracy to dash on the scene and tell Johnson to warm up his B-25 for the carrier takeoff to To kyo. But at least Mr. Tracy was spared that embarrassment: into a shiny new one of high speed airplanes, strange new inventions, the smell of green grass after rain, the wonderful changing of the earth's colors with the seasons, the joys, the hope and the dispair of life, and the soul-contentment of religion. Your Dad, and I, and mil lions like us helped to make that kind of a world for you. It's my hope, and the hope of all humanity, that our efforts to create a decent world for you will be more successful than the efforts of those who have gone before us. Sure, things are pretty good in this country. But, still there's plenty of room for im provement. For instance, twice within a short space of twenty years the world was plunged into an orgy of blood in an attempt to purge the fes IRWIN SMALLWOOD BILL SELIG Editor Managing Editor Sports Editor BURTON MYERS Business Manager Circulation Manager Absociati Editors: Gene Aenehbachcr, Fred Flalr, Eddie Allen. Xditorlax Statf: Jud Kinberg-. Tom EUer. Matt Hodgson, Bob Jones. Sam Daniels. Bob Finehout, Bettie Washburn. Disk Editob: Barron Mills. ' Nbws Staff: Jo Pugh, Darley Lochner, Arnold Schulman, Earl Heffner. Burke Shipley. Sisrsbee Miller, Ed Joyner, Harry Snowden, Jinx Helm, Bookie Jabine, Brookale Popkins. Dave Owens, Joy Blumenthal, Fran Walker. Eddie Blankstein, Bob Morrison, June Saner, Joe Duke, Vic Robinson, Jane Page Mears. Sam Whitehall. Helen Highwater Nioht Editors: Barron Mill. Bill Benton, Bookie Jabine. Assistant Sports Editor: Bob Goldwater Nioht Sports Editors: Jim Pharr. Carroll Poplin. Howard Merry ISS-1T s7aV. n! pnh Many Bchap' Bm CMmlchaaV Mae Katain. Dick Seaver baTho HWard BaUey 8uxnne Barclay. Brantley McCoy. Natalia Bells. Bar- Advbbtisino Manasiss s Ed Parnell. Nancy Wanrh. vLfr'1 Blf,chon ary Jo Cain. Ed Campbell. Bettie Cheatham, Pat Ferris. firt? Aife w&SS ' mJnyHueheB' Janet JoU AH56 Logan. Adelaide Mo Larty, Alberta Mercer. Eleanor Rodd, Colen Thomas. John York Subscription Manages: Julia Moody. FOR THIS ISSUE Night Editor; Barron Mills Sports; Bob Goldwater That talented youngster, "Sugar- tering sore of fascism and totalitar chile" Robinson appears momentarily ianism from the face of the earth, and with his fists and elbows beating Nephew, "fascism" and "totalitarian out a fine boogie salvages about ism are pretty big words and it'll three hundred feet of the film. Guy be a long time before you understand Lombardo and Xavier Cugat, luckily that they simply mean that the little or unluckily, according to your musi- felldw, the common man, the average cal taste,, play a couple of numbers citizen, is getting pushed around, and that's about the size of the show. Right now I'm not so sure that we One more word, Keenan Wynn is succeeded in removing that peril from leading a dog's life having to appear the civilized world. For your sake, in such trash. ... and millions like you I hope we did Random Jottings As you think now of your Mother's The Motion Picture Herald, has arms and mealtimes and the wonder toasted Metro's "Till the Clouds Roll of your foot as you try to put it into Bv" the storv of Jerome Kern as your moutn: your uad and 1 are "The best musical anybody ever thinking of other things. We're think made." . . .Sam Wood's "Kings Row" mg and wondering it the bigots, the has been warmed over and will appear selfish "status-quo" boys, the formen again the end of this month. . .Two tors of intolerance and the profession pictures directed by that master al trouble makers will have their way. craftsman, John Ford, can be seen this Or, if the ordinary, decent people of week. The Carolina is playing his lat- the world will realize the great prom est, "My Darling Clementine," Thurs- ise that is in them and create a world day and Friday and the tiny Astor of which you can be proud, as you in Durham has revived "Stagecoach" grow. We hope you'll be able to leave for three days ending Saturday. . . the world of pink and softness which 20th Century-Fox is putting into pro- you now know, and enter a sensible duction "Nightmare Alley," that rough and lusty novel of carnival Broke the Plains ' in his considera- lif e. . .Senator Robert Taf t has been tion. . ."The Razor's Edge" has re quoted as saying that he is opposed ceived mixed reviews. Bosley Crow- to the government's efforts to continue ther writing in The New. York Times "New Dealish" propaganda through was only lukewarm in his appraisal the movies. It's to be hoped that the of the Zanuck .production. On the gentleman from Ohio wasn't includ- other hand Life magazine touted it ing such documentary classics as as "one of the very best pictures in "The River" and "The Plow That years." Vote for one. . . world which we have tned to build for you. You have been born into a won derful country. It is a country which can produce machine-giants to rival the very forces of nature herself. It is a country which stretches from one ocean to another ocean and in whose earth the fertility is present to grow food for its people, provide minerals for their inventions and yield all that we need for the com forts of life. , But, more than that, this is a coun try in which people from every corner of the world can live together in peace and neighborliness. This is such a country. As you grow up, always re member that those who want to help you and be your neighbor far out number those that would enslave you in a selfish special interest, directing your intellect and physical force against your neighbor, instead of for your neighbor. We who are adult now have a word for the type of person who would follow such a direction which can only lead to destruction and to the failure of this "noble experi ment" in deinocracy. We call such a person a "sucker." By the time you're my age that word will probably be as obsolete as "twenty-three skidoo" is to me. But, the idea will live on. Don't be misled by a special interest. Dear Sir: Last Thursday the Student Legis lature considered a bill introduced that night which will use student funds to pay for Yackety Yack space for the Order of the Golden Fleece. This bill was sent to the Finance Committee, which is headed by Mr. .Walter Stuart. The Legislature will probably dis pose of this bill Thursday, November 28. What this bill will do is to use student money yours and mine for the benefit of a particular campus or ganization. In my opinion, this is a bill which should be defeated. I object to the Legislature's spending student money for any campus organization, irrespective of its composition or na ture. Student money should be spent for the benefit of students the 6,800 students. It seems to me that this bill involves a basic principle of government. Those students who care, whatever their views, should let their representatives know how they feel. Naturally I hope the majority will feel as I that this bill, which will use public monies for the benefit of a private group, should be thunderously defeated. ROBERT NEILL P.S. In other words, let the Fleece pay for its own. Drawing the Line Dear Sir: "Men's Council Cases", published in Saturday's Tar Heel, shows far too clearly that the Men's Council is as suming duties which should be more rightly assigned to a branch of the W.C.T.U. or the Chapel Hill police. "A student, who had been drinking, was on the campus. An individual re quested him to go home. The student's reaction was ungentlemanly. He later apologized." Perhaps the Campus Code, the Hon or System, and the Men's Council's relationship to both should be clarified. Perhaps it should be explained how the same Council can hear and pass judgment on the above-mentioned case (in which the student was given a warning) and a case (involving coun terfeit tickets) which is in direct vio lation of the Honor Code. The Men's Council does not try cases of traffic violation nor should it consider any other civil cases; drunk enness is a civil case and should be handled solely by the Chapel Hill po lice. Offenses involving lying, cheating, and stealing are the only considera tions of a student council. Members of our Council who would like to rid Chapel Hill of its bad, liquor-drinking boys should join the W.C.T.U. or either report all cases of drunkenness to the Chapel Hill police. It seems to me that the Men's Council should not perform the duties of either organization. Mack Oliver Don't hate your neighbor, try to help him, and both of you will prove to history's tyrants watching from hell, that democracy can work. 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