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' TUESDAY, JANUARY 1G, 19"! THE DAILY TAR HEEL i s ii T : & ' & a. O i :, V i V: s ij ,' i- v -i: i 5 t 1 ', "We Got To Think More About Our National Resources" The official newspaper of the Publications Board-of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is published daily during the regular sessions of the University at Colonial Press. Inc., except -Sun., 4on.. examinations and vacation periods and during the official summer terms when published semi-weeklv. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Chapel Hill. N. C, under the act of March 3. .1879. Subscription price: $8 per year, S3 per smarter. Member of the Associated Press, which is exclusively entitled to the" use for republication of all news and features herein. Opinions expressed by columnists are not necessarily those ot this newspaper. Editor - - - :.. J : - ROY PARKER. JR. Executive News Editor .. - CHUJ?K HAUSER Managing Editor : JROLFE MLL Business Manager - ED WILLIAMS Subscription Manager - ; . TOM McCALL. Sports Editor - ZANE ROBBINS ' Staff Photographers . Jim Mills, Cornell Wright Don Mavnard, Associate Ed. Tom McCall. Subs. Mgr. Andy Tavlor. News Ed. Neal Cadieu. Adv. Mgr. Frank Allston. Jr.. Associate Spts. Ed. Oliver Watkins. Office Mgr. . Faye Massengill. Society Ed. Shasta Bryant. Circ. Mgr. Business Staffs Boots Taylor. Marie Withers, Charles Ashworth, John Poindexter, Hubert Breeze. Bruce Marger. Bill Faulkner. Pat Morse. Chuck .bernethy. Martha Byrd. Marile McGerity, Lamar Stroupe. and Joyce Evans. Marie Costello - - - Adv. Lay-out For This Issue: Night Editor. Chuck Hauser Sports, Buddy Northrup : 7 A Proper State The "State of the Campus" speech by President John Sanders at last week's meeting of the Student Legislature, Treasurer Banks: Talley's budget message at the same time, and the manner in which both were received by the student solons all point to a healthier attitude among student govern- ' merit people than has been evident in some time. I V Sanders covered the situation on campus adequately. Talley's assertion that the campus financial picture was brighter than many had thought was highly encouraging. The nonpartisan manner in which the Legislature voiced approv- 'al of -the talks, was, we hope, indication of a determination oiif the part of both campus political parties to throw aside polit ical squabbling for the common good of the campus. In this time of emergency, the purely political activity that "has characterized much of student government effort amounts practically to crime. The plain fact is that even if everyone who takes an active interest in student government and student politics were to agree on a common course andr work on it, the entire group would not be adequate to meet1 the needs of our campus government structure. When the in adequate group refuses to cooperate because of political rea sons, then its number is halved, and chances for proper and necessary student government action is practically nil. Such a division in these present times would almost mean the complete breakdown of free student action. The outline of policy to meet the emergency which has been put forth by President Sanders, after consultation with people in all walks of student life, is one that can be followed by members of both campus political parties without surrendering any "political principals," whatever they are. It should be the duty of everyone in student government, no matter of what camp us political faith, to honestly apply him or herself to the-job at hand. Flag-Flying A Reminder The erection of the former Navy flagpole on the campus is a move that went unfanfared, but is a proper and welcome move. The lack of a proper place to fly the flag has often hamstrung and embarrassed administration and students in the past. The shiny addition will fill that need. And if ever there was a time when flag-flying could be useful, it is the present. With the United States locked in a life-or-death mental and physical struggle for her existence, the need to be reminded of the American heritage is greater than ever before. That is exactly what Americans should be reminded of when they take a glance at the Stars and Stripes. Just remember that despite our comparative youth as a na tion, we have a flag that has been with us through all 160 odd years of our freedom. There are few nations in the world that can say the same for their own national emblems. Many have had a half-dozen changes in bunting during our time. To us that indicates that just as the flag has remained the same throughout our history as a free country, so have our ideals of democracy and justice the foundations of the freedom represented by the flag. Continued allegiance to flag and heritage is an indication of a spirit that is going to be the principal asset of this nation in the present struggle. Without that spirit of democracy, justice and continued allegiance there would be no nation, indeed, nothing upon which to base our right to challenge Communism. The red and white emblem of our nation -is a good and faithful reminder of our heritage and duty. It should be displayed as such a reminder. That is the real worth of the newest addition to the campus. Sound Health Policy , Representative John Umstead's recently-introduced bill to construct a $750,000 psychiatBic wing to the now-building Medical School is a measure that deserves favorable consid eration by State legislators. The bill, and another introduced by Umstead calling for an increase in the number of psychi atrists in state mental institutions, is designed to fill a great need in state services.. The inadequacy of the state mental care program is prob ably the biggest single drawback in the list of services ren dered by North Carolina to her citizens. The present state I administration has put improvement of the facilities for men tal care high on its list of must jobs, and the Umstead meas ures are direct outgrowths and indications of that purpose. ' The UNC Medical School now under construction will go a long way in answering the pressing health care needs of this state. It will stand as a monument to those who have ad vocated and fought for improved medical care. The psychiat ric services asked in the Umstead bill, and the efforts of the State administration to improve mental care, are a. part of the greater battle to improve health in the State. It is -action in the area which now needs the greatest attention. Not to take proper, complete and. adequate action in the field of mental health care would be to go against a policy -already, set and already bearing fruit in the construction of the Medical School. Money for the psychiatric wing should be made avail able by the State Legislature. ' on the1 Carolina FRONT by Chuck Hauser Clipped from the Jan. 10th editorial page of The, Michigan Daily of the University of Mich igan, under a . column heading , "The City Editor's Scratch Pad" and carrying the ' by-line, of Paul Brent linger:- ' ' ' .' . .In Columbia, S. C, the visitor might stumble across the University of South Carolina. If so, he would never again scream for a campus which contains only one type of architecture. Imagine if you can an entire campus of structures like our ' beloved Economics Building. Here you see fraternities using bright neon signs' to identify their chapter houses, a some whai justifiable practice , since each merely inhabits a section of a huge quadrangle. Here you see huge chalk signs demanding that: the Carolinians "Beat Duke!" or "Beat Hell Out . of Clemson!" Imagine seeing a chalky "Beat Hell Out of North western!" scrawled across the rear of Angell Hall. In Columbia you might read the newspaper columnist's state ment that segregation could be compared to the -practice of hav ing separate rest roomsjor men and women. For the benefit of my critics, I would like to repeat that the above passage was not written by Hauser. It was by a student columnist at the University of Michigan who toured through quite a chunk of Dixie during the Christmas holidays. Paul Brentlinger went back to his alma mater, stuck his tongue in his cheek to explain " . . .it is customary that after returning home '(North) the editor will write . an article or two describing the social, econ omic, political and moral status of the South.?' I quote the last remark be cause it is so darned true. I be lieve W. E. Debnam in Raleigh had a few comments to make on the same situation not so long ago. I quote the italicized passage above from Brentlinger's column (in which he mentioned New Orleans, Charleston, Columbia, and Lexington, Ky.) particularly for his comments about the signs adorning the South Caro lina campus. Only the ones I saw weren't in chalk, but paint, Paul. - Some people apparently still think I was "sneering" at South Carolina because the state is poor. I did no such thing. I have never "sneered" at anything, and never intend to; it's not be coming to a Writer, and besides, I have never felt like sneering at anything or anybody. I was merely discussing an . attitude which seemed prevalent among the South - Carolinians and its results as I saw them. And let's let it drop at that. With South Carolina behind me, and Paul Brentlinger's col umn is front of me, let me -reprint a few more of his words, purely for your enjoyment: . . .A tourist in New Orleans is likely to go away remember ing a peculiar odor. of old liquor, old perfumes and ' aging wood which exudes from every street of the French Qaurter . . . Walk ing down the street behind a gang of junior .high sch'ool stu dents who discuss the intricacies of the teen-age world in vigor ous French . .- . Dinner at An toine's, wheve.the lights are doused when' d waiter serves a flaming dessert jrp.Tii -an ornate vessel ... ... A wealthy local citizen who treats his fav&ily . to dinner at the big restaurant and starts the kiddies off 'wlili big manhat tans and teaches-hcm to say "merci" instead of "thank you" to the waiters. . . . Standing on a Bourbon Street corner and hearing four excellent -jazz bands 'playing si multaneously jn four neighbor hood bistros .r. . The barkers at the door of each joint, constant ly suggesting that you "come right on in, the show is just starting" '. . . The strippers who usie everything from oyster shells and alligators to give a new twist to the old bump and grind routine . .'. all this wick edness going on a scant half hour away from Tuldne Uni versity? Newcombe- College and Loyola University of the South , and their thousands of unpro tected students ... Tfie Editor 's Mailbox ; Coed Faces A Problem Editor: I aree with you in your statement that slacks worn to das would insure a greater degree of warmth than skirts these chiliy days Legs covered with goose bumps, chicken flesh, and other un sexy manifestations of cold temperature are most unattractive nn.l uncomfortable. Slacks, however, may also be decidedly un-sexy in appear ance especially if the wearer is scrawny or, on the other extreme, slightly corpulent. Skirts may be inferior pieces of apparel in chilly weather, but they sure cover a multitude of sins. My problem, Miss Morse, is this: Shall I suffer my angular figure to be exposed, but warm, in slacks; or, shall I have chillblain:--and F.A. (Feminine Appeal) via skirts? ' Marie Costello Moseyin' Around with "Doc" Blodgett Tar Heel At Large by Robert Fwk, '35 In a country that has hitherto been so Saturday-rich in manpower, the avoidance of a draft summons has been largely regarded as a misde meanor. In the case of cravens, canny expedients, conscientious objectors and peculiar religious sects, the penalty has averaged out as slightly less than the wage of petty larceny.-' As the new draft extends, and saddle-galled old warriors are summoned back from the Re serve and National Guard, we brood slightly over the piteous plight of young Alfred Berg doll, the fabled draft-dodger's spawn.' Al hates war. It suits him scarcely at all. He draws five years in a nice warm jail, undoubtedly with time off for being a good boy. And this is more than .Serge'Rubinstein got for his flagrant defection. If the draft-duck be an offense at" all, it is either worth the death penalty, 99 years with no pardon, or nothing. It is either a sin and a shame and an act of outright treason, or it is nothing, zero, a mere exercise of democratic whim. Let us consider Mr. Bergdoll. Five years, he draws, for a disregard of authority that is em powered to send civilians to death, under ex tremely uncomfortable circumstances. What are five years in jail, with three squares and a soft sack, to a man who ruefully contemplates the absence of both hands and both feet? What are five years of, reasonably comfortable punishment as contrasted to the plight of the widows of the last expedition into world-saving? What are five years to a son who does not re member his father? What are ive years to a man who sleeps forever at Anzio or Guadalcanal? When we take a man into the service we put his life in escrow. He signs his potential death sentence when he shows up for the first close order drill. Only luck separates him from the quick and the dead. He signs over his civil lib erties, his individuality, his home, his economic future, to the land to which he is committed to die to defend. v When we take him into the service we can demand that he storm a beach, blow up in an apimo ship, defend a hill, or explode in an air plane. We can put him on KP, or make him snipe cigarette butts. We make him subject to the Art icles of War. We can court-martial him and shove him in jail or have him shot for violations of a stern code he never wrote. We can subject hiip to hunger and cold and heat" and fear and insanity and boredom and such unpleasant things as blindness and para plegia. We can send him anywhere, and bring him back at our leisure! Why, then, the lightness of punishment for the draft evader? We-have been tapped by des tiny for an unpleasant career of death, taxes and privation, in the defense of a nation most of us hold dear. We are in an arbitrary war, with the likelihood of more to follow. Personal pref erence, personal privilege has been scrapped by our leaders. A citizen is nolonger his own mas ter he does what the man says do, pays what the man says pay, goes where the man says go. There is, " then, small room for the willful exception. If death is good enough for a draftee, for a volunteer, for a Reservist, it is good enough for a draft evader. If the service is good enough for your boy, it is good enough for anybody's boy. And the penalties for evasion should be, at least, commensurate with the penalties of par ticipation. It is conceivable that, in the new slack-jawed thinking, many a man who could be put profit-" ably to work in the service of his country will cry: "Object!" and gratefully ; embrace a short stint in jail,' there to grow fat upon his martyr dom. It sets a pretty pattern, as the crook will ingly cops a minor plea to beat the threat of the hot seat. Many a good man lies dead today in many a foreign grave, which is decidedly not of his own choosing. It seems to me an insult to permit an alternative to military service which is little worse than the old custom of hiring a paid sub stitute to fight in your stead in a. war that con cerns everybody. Today we slap :em on the wrist, when maybe we ought to shoot a few as a healthy example. They shoot deserters don't they? On The Soap Box by Bob Selig This county is a dry county by law. It -shouldn't be. No county should be. Even if there were real prohibition in this county, and there isn't, jt would be wrong. It is not the politician's business whether I drink or don't drink, whether I get tight or stay sober. Bottoms up is not the concern of any government. Prohibition is a violatkm of man's dignity and of his fundamental right to lead his own life. As long as he does not break laws or violate his neighbor's rights, he should be able to drink as much as he: pleases. That is entirely up to him.. If he is prepared to harm his liver and his heart muscle, if he will take the chance of shortening his life span; no one should stop him. No one is justified in stopping him. There are those people who cannot handle drinks. Whenever they take a drink; they cannot stop until they wind up unconscious in some gutter" with their head resting on a manhole cover. They are siek people. These chronic al- " choholics need medical and psychiatric care, not laws. All the laws on this planet won't prevent .'a drunkard from getting -'his', bottle if he has a craving for it, ' and ' all the laws on this planet won't prevent the ?ame drunkard from becoming a burden to his friend and to his community. Up to now, there has been no attempt to leg islate against radishes. Yet radishes make a great many people break out into hives. There is a WCTU, but no temperance union against rad- ishes. Why not? To legislate against hives is no more ridiculous than legislating against delirium tremens. ' , I am indignant against the people who out law liquor sales. They can be divided into two major classes. The bluenoses, who are afraid that other people might enjoy what they cannot and will not enjoy: and the bootleggers, who are afraid they might not make as much money if bottoms up were legal. ' , It seems that this placid campus is 'currently' blessed with a "Lithuanian Jaguar" the nickname of Harold L. Titus who draws his pay by teaching Russian. Despite its oddity, the name seems tu be more complimentary than otherwise. The Jaguar came here from Cornell University by devious route. Way-stations included the Navy. A few weeks ahead the end of th. war, he had be.en released from service for some good reason. 11; jumped into graduate work, only to receive a secondary "Greetings" in a morning mail. Argument was nil, and back he went to the Navy. The second hitch was brief, but it sure put a dent in his plans. Your correspondent knew Mr. Titus during this Cornell phase: a rare-good friendship. He is tempted let a kitten out of' the bag. Mr. Titus . . .er, pardon, the' Jaguar . . .aw, heck, let's call him Harold . . .was out for a little touch of income there at Cornell, so he took on a Buildings and Grounds inspection job that was better done at night so that he wouldn't interrupt daytime operations. That campus, at the time, was still a major part a military post. Security demanded heavy stress. One night Harold heard a suspicious sound. It pointed to a store room that was little used. The hour was late, the building plenty spooky. Harold eased in with a master-key, Rather than expose position, he decided to stand in the dark. He was poised and ready for trouble. He let his hand drop down on what appeared to be a table. "Something" was plenty out of line. He let his fingers wander for appraisal. Something felt like (yet it couldn't be), a bunged-up hu man , hand. "The heck with this," said Harold, and flashed his light. The hand-affair was righter than rain. It was the tag-end of a mummy stashed away in there for lack of a better place to camp. Feller was awful dead. About a thousand year's worth. Harold got out of there, but not until he'd prowled the works. The noise turned out to be a weather-creak. He later remarked that he didn't mind looking for frayed wires and things, but he wished they'd keep their darned old mummies better put away. All of this fails to explain why Russian-speaking Mr. Titus now turns up in Chapel Hill as a Lithuanian Jaguar, but if the in side dope were known it might be pretty good. Nickname for any faculty man at all, hereabouts, prompts idle thought that this fine old campus trend is on the wane. Most nota bles here simply go by their given names. More so than elsewhere, one suspects. Of course there is Doctor Frank (Graham), Colonel Bob (House). Coach Bob (Fetzer), the Grey Fox (Snavely), the Skipper (Coffin), the Bald Eagle (Cordon), but in terms of off-hand count, that just about covers the list. We can think of other schools, and other years, and other names. Old "Tip" Tyler of Amherst College, long since dead, was thus have gone its way since indoor plumbing caught on . . . '"crock" Thompson got that way from shedding crocodile tears . . . " Pie Head" : (let's spare the name and place) sort of asked for his. As self-appoinfed dean of pastoral morals and necking, he poked his canoe under a bridge. An irate sophomore lurked up top side, ready with a well-filled garbage pail. Headmaster of a swanky prep school goes by the nam: of The. Quid. Fellers say he sort of looks like one. Best of the bunch, as your scribe looks back, was a fine old dame named Screamin' Minnie. (Let's forget the rest.) She got aroun:1 with decided limp, and the boys got wondering whether she was hiking on a wooden leg. 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