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4 a ) 1 ; it SATURDAY, JANUARY; 20, 1951 PAGE TWO - - , r -- - . . . T-, lxiXi juuui iaa xumu , , , 1 - tt1. ' . Il tm.ll ' - - . '""""""V . Si E A R a r f; f i Six ing a Mary Rec to th Camp assists manaj t Reflec the Cf a mei He gr in jou Rec BeaUi 101st j inridg with , 'Rec of Wi to Ca Re key, ist'wj pany' from in ch ed U Fort' . Re Gree: Bred ager Inc.,' Re HC dm a,ar mm The official newspaper of the Publications Board of the University of Vorth 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 oeriods and during the official summer terms when published mi-weoklv. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of rhnno' HiH N i nHor Prt flf mt " "7o SiiHFrrirtjr nric: S8 rer year. 3 per ouarter. Memor of the Associated Press, which is exclusively ntitled to the" use for republication of all news and features herein. Opinions tj.-eu b coi-iui.iiitb .:. iiui necessarily iriusc; ut tiu newspaper- - Editor Executive News Editor Managinf Editor Tusiness Manager Subscription Manager Sports Editor ROY PARKER. JR. CHUCK HAUSER ROLFE NTSILX. ED WILLIAMS TOM McCALL .. . ZANE ROBBINS Staff Photographefs Jim Mills. Cornell Wright Don;Maynard. Associate Ed. Andy Taylor. News Ed. Frank Allston, Jr.. Associate Spts. Faye Masstngill. Society Ed. Ed. Tom McCall. Subs. Mfirr. Neal Cadieu. Adv. Mgr. -Oliver Watkins, Office Mgr. Shasta Bryant. Cire. Mpr. Business Staffs Boots Taylor, Marie Withers. Charles Ashworth. John Poindexter. Hubert Breeze. Bruce Marger. Bill Faulkner. Pat Morse, Chuck ibemethy, Martha Byrd. Marile McGerity. Lamar Stroupe. and Joyce Evans. Marie Costello Adv. Lay-out For This Issue: Night Editor, Chuck Hauser Sports. Ken ( Barton Proper Coed Action Coeds are going to be mighty important people on this campus within a few quarters. For that reason, the action of the Coed Senate in establishing an Independent Coed Board is a commendable one. The board is composed of elected representatives from the various coed dormitories. It will receive an appropriation from the Coed Senate to carry out its programs. The new group, an official and bona fide student govern ment organization, can much better coordinate, plan, carry out and supervise activities in the name "of independent coeds than could the Carolina Independent Coeds Association, which was a private organization. . . Being as it was, a private organization, CICA had to depend on its own initiative to recruit new members; and being private, it could not speak truthfully for any independ-" ' -ents other than those of its membership. The new board will be able to speak for all independents, and will be able to use to full capacity the resources of the independent coed population of the campus. By doing so, it will be able vto truthfully represent and serve the indepen-" dents and the campus. - Putting such action into the hands of a student govern mental agency is always a step forward. The Town Men's Association, which became a quasi-governmental body , be cause of the political influence it managed to use, has now disappeared from the campus scene. Its purpose, however, was a good one, and could have been carried on effectively if it had brought itself fully into student government. In stead, it argued to, the end that it should have representation on governmental groups because of its membership, although still remaining a private organization. It was finally and rightly denied such representation and has once again ceased to be. The CICA was fast going down the same road as did TMA. Its leaders, realizing the dire need for some type of organized ... action on the part of independent coeds, had assumed more , and more to represent others than its own membership. Great credit should go to those leaders who realized that such was not the proper action, and sponsored the legislation creat ing the new Independent Coed Board. . With the male population of the campus shrinking away to a handfull, UNC coeds are going to have to assume much of the responsibilities of student government and student ac tion. Even if males were to return under some type of mili tary education program, coeds would have to" carry much of the extracurricular work load, since the males .would un doubtedly have to devote most of t,heir time to studies." Thus, such sane and useful actions as the creation of the Indepen dent Board are actions that will be reflected in better things for the entire campus in the very hear future. - . Good And Bad Politics We Whole-heartedly agree with Columnist Jack Lackey, who recently took trie editorial column to task over the defi nition of "politics" when he asserted that "politics is an honorable word." And we also believe that politics is an honorable profession, if, and that is a big if, it is used honor ably. Seems to us that politics is a means to an end. The end is good government. If politics is usec with honesty and up rightness toward obtaining good government, then it certain ly is honorable and useful. However, when people start playing politics for the sake of politics, or for. purely per sonal, satisfaction or gratification, then politics is not fulfilling its function. Unfortunately, much of the politics on this campus has not; been fulfilling its function. If it were, then there would be a greater interest in government and a better student government. In times of emergency,' there has always gone up a call to dispense with what we would call "bad politics." In an emergency,""good" politics is more important than ever. And politics can be "good" without rubber-stamp actions, without sacrificing the right and need of constructive criticism, and without authoritarian government. i Double Court Standard President John Sanders made a good suggestion when he told the Student Legislature recently that "inclusion of any military units that may be established on campus under the authority of the campus judiciary" would not be a good idea. The troubles that beset the campus judiciary in the days of Iho V-12 and V-r) programs wcro almost enough to spell its doom. Subject as they are 1.6 military discipline, members of the armed services cannot very well operate under a double standard of campus justice and military justice. There will undoubtedly have to be some arrangements worked out by the campus judiciary with military units who might in the future be attached to the campus, but underno circumstances, should 'these- arrangements mean the inclusion of military per&urxWl under, the jurisdiction of the campus counts.- ; - '. ' ' : ; on the Carolina FRONT by Chiiick Hauser I don'i ui.-udliy- worry very" much, unless I really run into a problem that requires a lot of thought and care in making a decision. I don't believe in worrying. If you do the best you can in what ever you're doing, and do what you think is.best when you have to make a choice of courses of action, you'll almost invariably find that you have done the right thing in the end. And if . you find that you haven't, woriying about it won't help one single bit. . ' I didn't mean to slide into a philosophic discussion when I sat down to turn this one out. I meant to bring up something that worries me. I'm worried about people who spend hours of their time for the benefit of their fellow stu dents here and get no apprecia tion for the job they do. They get no pay or compensation of any kind, they get no honor or glory, and what makes it bad is they rarely even get a pat on the back from the people for whom they are working. I'm talking about1 the little people, in particular, who write the headlines, the "Campus Briefs," the stories on YWCA discussion panels, and the many minor items that ,,go to round out this newspaper's coverage of the campus. Take a Daily Tar Heel night editor, who goes to work early in the evening, gets his hands (and not infrequently his clothes) full of greasy printer's ink, sweats out a late-breaking story that means a complete re designing of the front page at a time when the rest of the stu dent body is preparing, for bed, shoulders the responsibility for getting the newspaper on the press with a minimum of mis takes, gets a few hours sleep, drags himself to a full load of classes, eats lunch, heads back for the office where. I chew him out for letting an error slip through on the front page, and starts the -whole damned process -all over again. When I said this man gets no pat on the back from the people for whom he works, I wasn't Jalking about myself and the other editors of thia newspaper. I was talking about his real bosses, the members of the stu dent body who pay the expanse of printing the paper, choose the editor, and reserve the right to boot the editor out on his tail if he fouls up those are the owners and publishers of this paper. .:-'-.'. Many students even take a sneering approach to their news paper employees.1 They think it , is a "waste of time" to .i-ol around in such an extracurricu lar, activity as newspapering. But they are the first ones to squawk if their Daily Tar Heel is late in delivery the next morning. These people have no idea of the hours of labor and sweat that some of their fellow stu dents donate out of the goodness of their hearts and the love of the game to bring them this four-page journal by 7:30 in the morning. They take the paper for granted, as if it put itself out. They have no comprehen sion of the enormous number of man-hours each issue" of their paper requires. It's like so many other things. I find myself, now and then, taking rh;; scho i for grunted. Then I'll take a walk across the campus and realize how lucky I am to be attending as fine a school as Carolina. On that walk, as I begin to wake up again, I look at Old East Dormitory with a new re spect and I'm proud of the fact that it is the oldest building on the campus of any state univers ity in the nation. I look at South Building and realize how fortunate I am to be in an institution, run by as respected an administrator as Gordon Gray. And I remember with warmth how privileged I am to have met and known the great man who 'was formerly president of the University. I look at Davie Poplar, and the Old Well, and become fully conscious of the. fact that I am a prrt of I be gloi i'otts hcrit;:p;e that is the University of North Carolina. " - And I rememberto appreciate the things that" J h$d begun 'to tale for granted."" ' .. Okay, Let's Have It1 . The Editor's Mai I bo' Tar Heel At Large by Robert Ruark, 35 Budd Schulberg has committed one of the su perior novels, "The Disenchanted," based on his old acquaintanceship with Scott Fitzgerald, the disillusion prophet of the 1920's. Budd's a friend of mine, and I practically rais ed his kid brother, Stuart, in what We laughingly refer to as the newspaper game. So maybe I'm a prejudiced witness. But it -seems to me that this guy Schulberg is working himself up into the big-talent stage, and largely because he is taking his time. And writing about what he knows. He was a kid when he wrote "What Makes Sammy Run?" a biting but nori-vicious appraisal of Hollywood. Budd was fetched up in the town, where his Papa was a high-shot producer for years and years. When "Sammy" hit print Hol lywood did a backflipJ "Sammy" was an amazingly perceptive book for a xung'un to write. Its honesty never out weighed the skill with which it was compounded. The second Schulberg effort, "The. Harder They Fall," was something of a disappointment to me, at least, because it dealt with the life and times and exploitation of Primo Camera. Budd picked up a couple of hundred ihou from the movies for it. His background knowledge "of fights and fighters was sound, but it didn't have the writing. At that, it was nowhere nearly so awful as some of the early and' later writing of the late Sinclair Lewis. Anybody who re members "Free Air," "Mantrap," or "Bethel Merriday" and "Kingsblobd Royal" knows what I mean. ' . , ' -;"n:n : ii But with this fresh appreciation, of a, public character, the late Mr. Fitzgerald, Schulberg has done a job of which Fitzgerald, before he came apart at the seams, might have "been very proud. There are some loose ends, surepand some over devotion to reportage at the sacrifice of imagin ation. But it looks very much as if we are rais ing a modern writer of strong stature, and a lot of people have been complaining ' that the field was pretty desperately fallow. Budd hasn't written a "Babbitt," a "Main Street," or an "Arrowsmith" or "Dodsworth," "yet, but he's farther ahead of himself than Sin clair Lewis was at roughly the same stage. And he's hewing to the same sort of attack the acute perusal of a certain segment of . the population. Schulberg is one of the fortunate writers who takes his time. Reversing the Greeley axiom, he started west and worked, his way east. He sits out in an old house in Pennsylvania, surrounded by children, and works. He's got another 20 or 30 books in him, and his period of gestation is not too limited by economic- necessity. I think Budd may be one of the most honest writers going. He took on Hollywood when his Pop was a big producer and he stood to louse himself up permanently for that lush market, when he write "Sammy." He is no less harsh with the city, or empire,"in "Disenchanted," after hav ing grabbed off a large hunk of movie money for "The Harder They Fall." This is a time when a big best-seller makes no author rich, from straight sales alone, and if Holly wod doesn't buy it there isn't much profit in heading the Times' list. Budd still has enough honesty to be awfully impolite to the cinema city and the people who make it go. We have had some mighty encouraging doings , in the writing trade in the last few seasons. Mr. L. B. Guthrie, with "The Way West" and "The Big Sky," retrieved the historical novel from acute prostitution. Lee G. Miller put out a start lingly skillful and honest biography of the late Errtie Pyle, a man whose latter years were smoth ered in saccaharine. Robert Lewis Taylor's. "Pro fessor Fodorski'r may well be the funniest novel ever written, although it has sold something like 20 copies and I have bought at least 19. The intro spection of childhood has been abused until it should be a federal crime to remember, but Max Wylie did a nice job in "Go Home and Tell Your Mother.", We do not seem to have many Titans around the Tom Wolfes and Fitzgeralds and young Hem ingways and Red Lewises but we aren't desti tute, by a long shot. At least some of the lads are spending more time working than whining.'' ' Mr. Ruth Is Flattered, Disturbed, Contused Edltirnote that Mr. Hause? wa suinciently agitated to honor with considerable attention. I am flattered, and would like to express my appreciation. Probably I should consider his remon strances one by one, in order. " (1) ' Having been away for several years until thl pai f and not having known either candidate, i cuuid hardly be bin,, about tne result oi tne election. What disturbs me is the mystery surrouucZng the need for a special election. (2) Apparently a student is to be offered these two alternatives- (a)-Give up his plans for doing what the old-fashioned citizen would call "studying" in order to waste his time on Th, Daily Tar Heel, or. (b) Salute with one hand while he pays with the other, and dare not attach any suggestions to his check, I am not convinced that these exhaust the possibilities, and no repeti tion of long-discredited catch-phrases. will convince me. (3) No comment. I heard that one years ago. (4) How's that? .. " , t . (5) Some people's ideas of what is proper for entertainment are, uh, one might discreetly say peculiar. - With regard to atmosphere, I will admit that the atmosphere of my high school was much cleaner and more wholesome than what Mr Hauser thinks is a "college atmosphere." I might be willing to go back if I could transfer my credit for my graduate courses und then finish the requirements for my degree. However, the graduate school atmosphere is better than that exuding from Graham Memorial. What really worries Mr. Hauser is the possibility that I might not get lost. To that extent, I do not fit into the scheme. There is much more that needs to be said with regard to his complaint number 2. I may be old-fashioned, but I have always thought that the primary purpose of a college or university is fj teach, and that teaching is not easily done unless the student coop erates by studying. (You will please excuse my use of that word "studying." Apparently it has fallen to the status of a dialect form). Certainly it is not reasonable to assume that the student who has other , things to do is therefore obligated . to permit himself to be misrepresented by a noisy little clique that insists upon "representing" the student , body. As long as I must pay I shall .insist upon the privilege of commenting upon the use of my money. Don't you really believe any of that claptrap about campus democ racy that is fed to the unsuspecting freshmen? John M. Ruth (Thene is no mystery surrounding the reason for the special election last jail. The editor of The Daily Tar Heel elected Ian spring simply failed to return to school. Ed.) Wants More Farber Editor: I just can't resist writing you to let you know that I think The Daily Tar" Heel is "dern good!!" Also wish to offer my compli ments to Barry Farber for his column "Not Guilty," which gave me a good rib tickling 10 minutes and many happy thoughts for the rest of the evening. Why not more?? - - Janie Beschl (Tlianks, Janie, and we're doing our best to convince friend Barry that he should write more. Another of his columns will be coming up next Tuesday or Wednesday. Ed.) Lend An Eye CPU Roundtable "Tarzan and the Captive Girl" Lex "Tarzan" Barker and his retinue of animals cavort about the jungle again. This time they collaborate in an attempt to free some native girls captured by a neighboring kingdom. -Many problems block the way. To name a few, there is a ro- "ji'-""i,,,,";"'r"- mantic triangle, a deadly plague, a belligerent tribe of Indiana and a scheming prime minister. Wandering aimlessly and with more intricacies than a Sam Spade story, this bit of non sense becomes so hopele.-'y snarled that I wonder if the di rector can read the script. by' Ed Williams One of the main topics of conversation among college students at present is mobilization and the possibilities and uncertainties it presents to all of us. To date only a small fraction of the total available manpower has been mobilized. Several hundred thousand men have been drafted or have volunteered, four National Guard divisions have been called in, and many individual reservists have been recalled. . The future has been left rather hazy by pro nouncements from Washington. On one'hand we hear that all available manpower including those -previously considered physically unfit may have to serve, and that even women may be drafted. On the other hand some Congressional leaders, . frightened by the howls of the "Moms," have balked at lowering the draft age from 19 to 18. If failure to do so promises to result in the draft ing of veterans, there will be a greater and more justified howl. After all, most ' of the "veterans were drafted at 18, so why shouldn't the present crop of 18-year-olds chip in their nickel's worth? What are the prospects? For the 18-year-olds things are very uncertain. They will just have to wait until Congress makes up its mind about whether or not to draft them. They'll be draft bait in a year anyhow. Draft age non-veterans who are not in the UOTC have several choices: (1) Wait and be drafted and take their chances on being put in the infantry. (2) Join up riow and choose their branch cf service, ard tear their hair if their- drafted buddies get out before they do. (3) Join a reserve unit. Practically no organized reserve units have been called, and there's little prospect of their being called except in case of total mobilization. (4) Join the National Guard. Prospects aren't as good as for the reserve. More NG divisions are likely to be called next spring and summer. , Veterans look pretty safe for the present, ex cept for those who are in the reserve but not in an organized reserve unit. There aren't many left in this category. Most of them have been called, and the ones who haven't had better get in a unit quick like a bunny. Of course in case the inter national situation deteriorates enough to warrant total mobilization all bets are off, and the people in the National Guard and reserve units will find themselves in on the ground floor with good ratings and with jobs and people they know. What to do while waiting? The main thing is keep studying. Don't fall into that stupid don't-give-a-damn attitude and let your grades fall. If you think that University officials, honorary fra ternities, scholarship committees, and employers will later on take into consideration the fact that you were worried about having to go fight, you've got rocks in the head. No, sir! Most of them op eralt n fh"ry thnt the- guy with the god grades gets the goods, come hell, high water, or shrapnel. Any D's or F's you make now are there to stay, and unless you plan to become a brick layer at a mere $100 a week, you'll regret them when all this is over and you get bacj- to schaoL ACROSS L. High, pointed rock 4. Heaps 9. Drop the bait srently 12. Metalliferous rock 13. Roman official 14. Geological aee 15. Lessened gradually 17. Lost noats 19. Astrineent 20. Wax SI. Eskimo cano zi. ilxtremfst 34. Drunkard 35. Lady of Arthur" court 27. Award for merit 39. Behold 40: Retributive lustice 42. Ballots 44. Scheme 43. Fros 46. 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