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PAGE TWO TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1944 'Jotinhy; Two of Carolina's most criticized student governing organiza tions are meeting within the next few days, one for the first time this quarter, both to discuss questions which should have been introduced, discussed, voted upon and settled at least four months ago. Although the decisions reached by each will still carry weight of varying degrees of importance, both will have lost their real strength as rather posthumous solutions to once per tinent crises. Tonight the student legislature will attempt to solve the ques tion of what constitutes campus citizenship and subsequent quali fications for voting in student elections. Still in time to extend ,the privileges of the ballot to several groups who do not, under the existing legislation, have those privileges, at the same time inaction on the question served to disfranchise a large number of would-be voters in the elections this fall. When the coed Senate meets next week a definite decision has been promised concerning the coed point system which was estab lished several years ago under the supposition that it would con trol the number of campus offices a single coed could hold. In reality, the point system has never exerted more than a micron of power one way or another, and its abolishment would involve very little more than the striking from the records of "so many words on so much paper.' Had, however, the point system car- ' ried weight during the years, it should have been altered or abol ished last year when coed members of the student body began to step forward into heretofore almost prohibited offices. Too little and too late seems to be a philbsophy enjoyed by too many of our fellow Americans in their pursuance of a way of life. But realization of the pitfalls of this policy can prelude an equal realization that we learn by our mistakes, and build on the les sons of our history. . , - " Infirmary, Take Note . . . All over the nation the American Red Cross is issuing the call for more donations to Red Cross blood banks. Through the me diums of the newspapers, magazines and motion pictures an ex tensive propaganda program has been launched ; the country's leading comedians are even coining gag-lines reminding the peo ple at home to give a pint of their blood to the Red Cross, such as Milton Berle's classic remark during his recent donation, "If you can't send yourself, send a pint of blood. If you can't be a Private, be a corpusal." And yet, while blood bank quotas fall short of the goals set by the Army and Navy medical corps as absolute necessities, the University of North Carolina, and the village of Chapel Hill have no facilities for accepting would be donors of the vital blood plasma. The nearest blood bank is operated over at Watts hos pital in Durham. Last winter the staff of Watts hospital brought over equipment to the student infirmary here and set up a one-night-a-Week blood bank. As soon as the quota set for the Uni versity area was filled, the service was discontinued. Thus far this year the infirmary has announced no plan for re opening such a bank on these or any other terms. Whether the reasons lie in the fact that the staff at our infirmary is already grossly overworked, or whether it is no longer possible to obtain necessary equipment from Watts hospital or in some other fact, we have been unable to ascertain. - But one thing we have ascertained the national blood bank needs many millions more pints of blood than it is now receiving in order to fill its quota. Students, faculty and townspeople here stand ready to helpthat quota but there are no facilities within the bounds of the village to make their donations possible. Infirmary, take note ! DUKE (Continued from first page) in recent games because of his inac tivity; Dewell has 83 and Fitch 76. Carver set a Madison Square Gar den record earlier in the season when he tallied 27 points against LIU and took the Duke scoring lead. Since then he has dropped to second with 162, Wright leads with 170. Bledsoe has 82 and Harner 62. First Loop Fray In Big Five competition, Duke will be making the first start of the year, thus making the game tonight act as a yardstick of their conference power, while Carolina has beSten both David son and State in loop encounters. Both these clubs were all-civilian and not an actual test of circuit strength. Acting as a barometer on the com parable potency of the two squads was the showing made against a common foe, the Richmond Thunderbirds. Al most identical winning margins were recorded, Duke winning 44-38 and Carolina winning 42-35. Have Set Offense Both clubs play a set offense with it modified into a fast break when pos sible. They also have a common de fense, the combination zone with the . SERVING CIVILIAN AND MILITARY STUDENTS AT UNC The official newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,, where it is printed semi-weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $1.00 per quarter. KatHill j. Lloyd S. Koppel, V-12, NROTC Frances Defandorf Sara Yokley GET A GOOD BOOK Latest Editions Rented or Sold BULL'S HEAD BOOKSHOP Basement of University Library Lately necessary shift to man-to-man when the necessity arises. Duke will have a distinct advantage in the fact that they play on home grounds. This might be a more help ful factor to Coach Gerry Gerrard's boys than is anticipated. However, Coach Lange has carried teams to vic tory while invading the Methodist stronghold in years past and has just as much hope of repeating this season. Carolina and Duke always put up a good scrap when they hook up on the hardwood, or in any other sport for that matter, and tonight's clash prom ises to be no different than in yester years. FOOD (Continued from first page ) available for inspection before pur chasing, has thus . far kept ' an ex cellent supply and choice of meats and, vegetables before its customers as well as clean and neat looking handlers behind the counter. Written statements of fact hand ed into the offices here reveal among other complaints, that cockroaches have been spotted crawling across the counter at the Carolina Phar macy. One student who is no longer, , , Editor .... ; Managing Editor Business Manager Associate Managing Editor n P Pafcfc er by M. E. Richter The President's message to con gress asking for national conscrip tion, in the form of a revised Austin Wadsworth bill this week is of vital -importance to students throughout the country. It will reach all the previously deferred males and the formerly exempt females. In addi tion to all men between the ages of 18 and 65, including those now de ferred f rom jnilitary service as 4F, it is directed toward all women be tween the ages of 18 and 50. Only women with children under 18 or in valid dependents are excepted and that will not save the student group. This act will impose upon the whole adult population of this coun try, for the first time since the com mencement of hostilities, the same binding legal obligation to help win the war, which has hitherto rested exclusively upon the physically fit men of draft age. It will solve, it is hoped, some of the more distasteful aspects of the labor problem in this country in a manner similar to that which has given some satisfaction in 'England since the outbreak of war. The Army and Navy departments and the Maritime Commission have long favored this step for they say there should be no further discrimi nation between the men and women assigned to producing the vital ma terials essential to successful mili tary operations and to those assign ed to its defense at the battlef roht. Now is the time to face the prob lem squarely before it descends upon us in an avalanche of orders. We are not shop workers or mechanics, we are linguists, scientists, tech nicians, social workers and teachers. All civilians should be glad to walk side by side with those others who have gone ahead, so start planning your contribution to victory now. Some universities are arranging courses designed to facilitate the orientation of those who intend to enter the Waves and elsewhere re lated studies are being introduced to anticipate the new call for women and formerly deferred men. The Gallup poll three months ago ' showed that 71 of the country favored compulsory war service of which 91 were themselves subject to such a draft. Newspapers and public opinion have begun to push the new bill forward even though the President was long reluctant to suggest it. The Wacs need 137,000, the Waves 43,000, the Spars 55,000 and the Ma rines 7,000 to fulfill their present quotas and voluntary recruiting is not producing the required results fast enough. The Census Bureau estimates that there are some 16, 000,000 women eligible and we know from the past experience with the 1940 selective service act that the bulk of these will be deferred leav ing the group from 18 to 25 to fill the needs. This campus has fertile officer ma terial for the armed forces and good leaders could be found for industrial vacancies. They may not wait until you get your diploma, and some streamlining of your civilian courses will become necessary. Meanwhile, this would be a good time to organize Women's ROTC units. North Caro lina co-eds to the front. working there, told us, during the time in which he was employed at the Inn, that we should not touch any of the meat served in the Inn. cafeteria. "I never eat any meat from here," he reported. "Take chicken for example. Food boxes of chickens arrive at the kitchen, and are handled exactly as if they were so much trash. The contents of the boxes are allowed to spill all over the floor, then the chickens are picked up, and made ready to be cooked." - Thus we continue our "sore thumb" policy. The one sure way of curing a sore thumb is to re move the cause of its infection. FOR VICTORY BUY BONDS COLD RAY WAVE - It's So Natural Without Heat CAROLINA BEAUTY SHOP B3iLTnnimrjii!! The Soldi .yote Bill Has Been Iii The Senate Week Write: YOUR REPRESENTATIVE pen power The present session of Congress has been in meeting exactly one week, and during this time its mem bers have shown, for the most part, more than a tendency toward pre election public-polishing. For one time, at least, it appears as though the real will of the people will di rect their legislative action You have been told time and time again that letters to your Congress ' men do influence their votes ; for the past two weeks we have thrown the facts at you, and pounded you with the importance of writing these men, who represent you, urging them to pass the Lucas bill provid ing for a practical and workable method of absentee Voting for mem bers of our armed services over seas. A number of you have writ ten these men, but you of the ma jority, for reasons ranging from pro crastination to just plain don't-give a-damn, have not considered the' issue important enough to take ten minutes of your personal time to write. If the bill fails to go through either or both the houses of the United States Congress, more blame than you care to admit or realize will lie on your heads. WRITE YOUR REPRESENTA TIVE TODAY! I!!llllll!ll!!l!lll!ll!llill!nillll!!l!lllllll!ll!!!Illlin!!llllllllll!lll!ll!!!illi;i!llllllt dave hanig ha ppy Once upon a time the Citizen was found in a cobwebbed section of New York town rummaging through the crazy little shops that sell old books, made-over antiques and rubber water bags. A smudged sign in the window announced a clearance sale of old jazz records. Burning with the fever that sent Chris Columbus over three thousand miles of water in an old tub he sailed into the shop. A tobaccostained sales clerk with an unclean beard and a wheeze to his voice asked him what he could do for the Citizen. Trying desperately to be casual the Citizen - asked in a hushed voice if the old man had a platter called: The Bos ton Bean Blues. He couldn't keep the note of reverence from his voice. Wearily the old man pointed to a pile of discs in a corner. That was five years ago. Today the Citizen not only owns the Bos ton Bean Blues but has a weird col lection of jazziana he wouldn't trade a bull pup for. True the grooves of each record is frazzled. The Citizen, nevertheless, pulls them out and watches with rapture the faces of his friends. "Hear it? Hear that clarinet? (The listener can barely make out a whine.) I bet you can't guess who it is! Can you?" The listener humors the Citizen. "It couldn't be . . . !" The Citizen shouts with glee. Experience Service Consideration EU BANKS DRUG CO. DEPENDABLE DRUGGISTS SINCE 1892 LET YOUR NEXT PERMANENT Be a Opens n i ooay Attack Must Be Pushed Hard Here "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Daniel Webster said that years ago, and ever since people have been trying- to figure out just what he meant. Perhaps he meant that when love of one's country becomes an emotion whose seat is in the tongue rather than the heart, it becomes a lie a dan gerous lie. True patriotism is as quiet as it is persevering. It is expressed by action rather than by words. When it becomes complacent and ceases to act, it ceases to be patriotism. Today, or very soon thereafter, every one of us is going to have his patriotism put to a fresh test. And regardless of how we may have answered the call in the past, this time is going to be different. Once again someone is going approach each one of us individually and ask us for another contribution to the War Loan : this time the Fourth War Loan, the largest War Fund drive in our history. And this time what is our answer going to be? Will be action? Or will it be,a shallow excuse ? "I went over my quota in the last drive." "My old man's check didn't come through on time this month." "I've got to have a new dress this quarter." We may have any number of these answers ready. But before we voice them, let us consider whether they are logical but empty words with which we are trying to soothe our own consciences. The Fourth War Loan Drive is the biggest that the government ha"s sponsored yet. The goal set for the University is five thousand dollars. Whether or not that goal is reached is the problem of each of us, a problem which no amount of Tar Heel editorializing or motion picture eloquence can solve. "This is no time for the Summer Soldier or the Sunshine Patriot." Regardless of what success we have had in the past, if we fail this time, we will have lost a battle in our own personal part of this war. This time is different. It must be a new victory. G rape vine Through the channels of a most secretive underground, tapped by some of our more aspiring young re porters, we hear tell that within the next few weeks two of Carolina's former mogul-men will be amongst those cadating it at the pre-flight school right here at Chappel Col litch: namely Phi Gam HOBIE Mc KEEVER and former sophomore class president CHARLIE DAVIS, now undergoing the agonies of pre-pre-flight up among the wilds and woods of yankeelanders . . . and on the dual subject of Carolina chillen' and Carolina cadets, we also under stand that our ex-Miss EDITH COL- c i t i z e "Right. Benny Goodman. Who else can lick a horn like that?" Then he goes on to explain that the record is a dark horse . . . just another band BUT Benny Goodman got his start through records just like this.. And the listener goes away convinced that the Citizen has a col lector's item (though that wavering whine bothers him). . To date the Citizen is collecting folk music. You can't tell him that "The Death of Mountain Daisy" is hill-billy stuff. Look at "Pistol Packin' Mama." They laughed at that but you could trace that back to "Lockjaw in the Valley." No one as yet has told the Citizen about the classics. Still, anyone can listen to the classics. You can't rummage through old shops for a Beethoven original. Or can you? By The Staff VARD of Florida is now panhand ling as Mrs. to an Ensign whom she met as an aviation student at the aforementioned school for airplane drivers. ... The coming of the ADLER DRAPER show on Wednesday will provide a miniature old-home-week for one member of the duo and Chief Specialist BERNIE KAPLAN. Years ago Kaplan and Draper were members of competing harmonica bands, met for the first time back stage at a theatre in Philadelphia. f . . Since being stationed here with the Navy, Kaplarf has become a fast friend of DEAN HOUSE, and to hear the neighbors tell it the result ing harmonica-duet is something to hear but not at three ayem, they add. Through a gross error on the part of our circulation manager a copy of the Dook Chronicle got itself mix ed up in ur mail supply of bills, bills, bills and auto insurance publicity. But to wit: one definitely unsigned column had the unmitigated gall to compare the Dook all-student show, STAND-BY, with our GADABOUT hit. Quote: !' 'Stand-By' topped Carolina's show, 'Gadabout,' by far, but it was a tie which one was the sexiest . . ." Oh, Way-ne! It Pays to Play LATEST RECORDS Come in and look over our new shipment of 10 and 12 in. Victor Red Seal Records CAROLINA Sport Shop
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