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THE TAR HEEL TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1944 PAGE TWO Yours Is The Power The Way in Which You Use It Will Determine the University's Course Long awaited, since the first rumblings of the reawakening of politics on the Cardlina campus this spring, a second political party today comes forth with the official nomination of its can didates. This election will constitute the second in which the United Party has submitted candidat.es to the general student body. Some of the candidates announced today were expected to run for office; others come forth as a surprise. Some are better qualified to fill the offices than those corresponding candidates from the University Party ; some are not so well qualified. Again we repeat our plea to you who will be voting in the forth coming elections not to pledge yourselves blindly to support of a straight party ticket, unless you sincerely think all candidates from one party are the best qualified, after investigating each man or woman individually. From now until election day you will be deluged with propaganda from politicians supporting each of the parties ; you will see a mass ignorance of the current paper shortage as the photographed faces of the bright and beaming candidates leer down at you from posters attached to everything from the billboard in front of the student union, to the steps down by Woollen gymnasium. If past precedent is followed sororities and fraternities will be beseiged with pleas of wholehearted sup port of single party candidates. Take this in, listen to what the publicity men have to say; But weigh what they have said with more than a single grain of salt. Undoubtedly, this election will be among the most important, and the most crucial, of all elections in Carolina's long political his tory. Each vote you cast may well be the vote that dictates the course of the University during the next few months, and sub sequently, the general course of the University throughout a great many years to come. That is your responsibility, and one which you can not afford to ignore. The job is up to you, and nobody else can do it for you. Investigate all the candidates. Go up to each one and ask him point blank what qualifications he has for the office which he is seeking, why he considers himself more capable of holding the job than his opponent, and what he not only intends to do, but concretely and precisely, what he will do if he is elected. Don't be satisfied with a lot of high sounding words and phrases. Demand .logical and straight-forward answers. Then decide which of the candidates you are going to support. - . Over-emphasis of the importance of this election is impossible. The majority of students here do not realize just what dire cir cumstances student government at the University is in at the present. Strong leadership, not good leadership but the best pos sible leadership in all offices is absolutely essential if any vestiges of a great University are salvaged. The power is in your hands. How are you going to use it? Once Bitten, Twice Shy - . r Althought the Army's evacuation of the men in the ASTP from, the University of North Carolina's campus did not wreak such chaos and confusion as prevailed on many of the campuses throughout the country from which Army programs were re moved, not a little complaint has come forth concerning the Army's handling of its academic program. Some of this has been in relation to the government and colleges after the war. We reprint here a short excerpt from a current issue of Har per's Magazine, "The Army Quit the Colleges," by Robert G. Hawley : "Much wear and tear could have been saved these people if there had been less confusion all around and if the directives sent them by the Army had been less vague. Most of them accepted these difficulties in good spirit realizing that they were inevit able in any task as huge as building an army of 8,000,000 men practically from scratch. But they had to spend inordinate amounts of time trying to decide what the Army wanted them to do ; they groaned over the difficulty of teaching groups of men who manifestly didn't belong in the same classroom ; some of them wondered whether the whole program wasn't misbegotten at the outset. ' "Now that the major portion of the ASTP has, been abolished, the colleges involved in it will be right back where they were a year and a half ago with their own destiny for the duration to work out. Sometning may be done for them by the government but just exactly what is now uncertain. Whatever their future relations with the government may be, at any rate college ad ministrators and professors will be virtually unanimous in the hope that, when the war ends, whatever provision is made for , government aid to soldiers who want to go to college will be based on a clear and workable plan, developed well in advance, and adapted to educational realities. Once bitten, twice shy. . 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 except during vacations, examinations, and holidays. 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. ' Kat Hill . . . , ,;; Editor SARA YOKLEY ) . W. Horace Carter, AS, V-12, USNR.... ... . .... Co-Managing Editors Frances Defandorf i . Business Manager Mildred Johnson .. . Advertising Manager Editorial Board: Bill Lane; Millicent Hosch; Sam Whitehall; Wayne Kernodle. Columnists: M. E. Richter; Opie Charters; Wayne Kernodle; Fred Loeffler. Sports Editor : Fred Flagler. - . Desk Editor : W. H. Hipps, Jr. Photographers: Tyler Nourse; Jim Hershey, Pvt., USMCR. Feature Staff : Georgia Webb ; Marianne Browne. News Staff: Sophia Sue Duffey; Robert Rolnik; Nell Shanklin ; Helen Highwater; Boo Leigh ; Harry Sawas ; Bill Stubbs ; Tommy Thomas ; Burnie Thompson, A-S, V-12 ; Nancy Kennickell ; Lucile Cathey ; Jerry Davidoff; Frank Ross; William Schroder; Faison Thomson ; Lee Silverstein, A-S, V-12. Sports Staff: Carroll Poplin; Ralph Parks; Keith Hutson; Ira Rothbaum. Circulation Manager: Wayne Kernodle. Circulation Staff: Lana Hill; Clarence Reynolds; Matt Johnson. Assistant Advertising Manager: Nell Shanklin. Advertising Staff: Fred Pierce; Crumb Fagan; Chester Waterman; Hugh Gibbons; Bar-, bara Baker; Betty Johnston; Gloria Powers; Charlotte Foster. Portia Patter by M. E. Richter DID YOU KNOW? There is a newspaper in Chung king that is prepared and printed in a cave hewn from the rocky hills outside of the main city. In spite of repeated bombings over a four-year period, since the com mencement of the undeclared war between Japan and China, it has never- missed an edition. It is called TA KUNG PAO and deliv ery is done by coolies who climb np and down 170 steps a day to bring the freshly printed copies down from the hills to the people . . . the first copy, of course, al ways goes to General Chang Kai Shek. ... Britain is so short of maids that in Salisbury, England, the local board of education has set up a school of cooking FOR MALES ONLY. Present class enrollment includes a Canon of Salisbury Cathedral, 70-year-old Herbert William Allen ... which proves that you're never too old to learn a few new tricks. ... Writer's Digest has announced their 10th short-story contest with a total of $2580 in prizes to be . given. The first prize will be $250 and the others are in proportion. It's a good opportunity for new writers, for the magazine also mar kets the story and continues its active interest in the winners long after the contest is ended. All O'Henrys please take note. ... Prince Joseph de Riquet de Chi may, native of Chimay, Belgium, whose title dates back to the Holy Roman Empire, has just become PLAIN JOE ... he is a private in the army at Camp Lee, Va., and has just become a United States citi zen. . . . Don't rush girls, he's already indicated that he really came to America in the first place because he likes those "SOUTHERN GALS." . . . A convict, Francis Higgins, 23-year-old inmate of Attica prison, was released from charges against him in Mineola, L. I., on papers he , had prepared himself while in jail. . . . He studied law during his im prisonment and was pretty proud to clear himself. . . But three months later he was arrested again and has now been returned to prison to finish his term and his studies of law. You see, he hadn't. -finished the whole course yet. ... Yale University had an "Area and Language" program more than 6 months before the Army started to use it . . . and at least 3 well-known universities have already commenced teaching language in this new meth- ; od to civilians. University of Iowa, . New York University and City Col lege. Rumors persist that Duke is starting such a course this summer and some even suggest that Univer sity of North Carolina is discussing it . . . but for the post-war world can't wait. The Army and Navy wants 10, 000 nurses by 1945. ... In a recent gallup poll it was found that 75 of the single women of the country favor drafting women for the WACS. . . . ' War conservation note ... Uni versity of Vermont dispensed with the usual formal graduation this See PORTIA, page INCREDIBLE WORLD By Wayne It may seem of no consequence to you, but once I knew a man who could juggle seventeen plates at one. time and end up by balancing a broom on his nose. It took him sixteen years and cost a young fortune to keep sup plied with plates while he was learning, but regardless of the money, time or plates he went right on to perfection. He actually started out to juggle four oranges, but the thing got the best of him. Juggling became an ob session and before you knew it he stopped smoking, sent his wife back to the orphanage and started a real campaign of hard 'work. Before he knew it oranges weren't good enough for him, so he started trying to juggle the furniture. Pretty soon he became known as one of the best jugglers in Bedslat Forks, Mississippi, which is where some of the best circus people come from who walk on tight ropes. In about ten years he had broken up most of the household furniture and was in a miserable condition and would have starved if it hadn't been for his mother who kept him sleek and fat with good home cooked meals. But she walked out on him too when he finally announced that his ambi tion was to juggle seventeen plates. Some years later he met her again carrying water to the elephants with the same circus he was juggling, for. It was here that I ran into them and they were in each other's arms the Juggler and his mother reunited af- ter all these years. It was good to see such happiness in the world so I invited them over to have a glass or two. It was then I learned about Late News arolima Workshop C TTh Everyone Invited To Attend Program By Sam Whitehall Expanding the theme, "The Artist As A Citizen of the World Today," The Carolina Workshop Council will open its third annual spring festival Monday night with a panel discus sion in the main lounge of Graham Memorial at eight o'clock. Extend ing from Monday through Saturday, April 17-22, the festival will include representative programs on music, the fine arts, art, writing, and danc ing and drama. Paul Green, writer, William Meade Prince, illustrator, Clemens Som mer, art historian, John Toms, mu sician, have agreed to appear on the panel, with Phillips Russell as in terlocutor. As the Tar Heel went to press, arrangements were under way to get Miss Clare Leighton, of Durham, and Struthers Burt, na tionally famous author of Southern Pines, to join the panel. Following brief discussions by each of the speakers, an open forum will be held - in which the audience will partici pate. Monday Preceding the panel, on at 4:15 Monday afternoon, Miss Harriet Adams will give a Gallery Talk in Person hall, on the paintings in the Latin American Exhibit in the Gal lery. Tuesday's Festival feature will be a presentation of the musical enter tainment prepared for the Service Camps in North Carolina by the Women's Glee Club, directed by Mr. Toms. , Wednesday Wednesday afternoon, the music department in Hill Music Hall will act as host for the Festival with a student recital, and Wednesday night three new plays will be pre sented in the Playmaker theatre, written by students in the playwrit ing course. On Thursday night a new radio l!lllIllilHII!IIIIIII!!I!!01!IUI!!l!!IIi;i!!!llIiniII!!li!!r,i!IlllllIlIii:i!!i:i!:il -FRIDAY- Informal Dance At Graham Memorial 9:00 p.m. Main Lounge. Drop in and sling your weight around to the tunes of popular record ings. Kernodle his great talent he had achieved his aim and was juggling seventeen plates 5 times a week with the circus. I do not know what possessed me, but it occurred to me at the time to suggest that it might be extremely wonderful if he could balance a broom on his nose while he juggled the plates. It was this suggestion that caused him to break off with his mother again and lose his job with the circus. It seemed hardly the thing to do from my point of view, but he couldn't stand to think of the pos sibility of doing it and then not go through with it. When he was sixty years old he finally mastered the plates and the broom. There are many people who would say the man wasted his life there are a few crackpots who would say he was won derful, and you could always find somebody to call him a communist. And as I said, it may be of en tirely no consequence to you. OS I 1 I J Festival Monday ' ', "- ; i . I I H ; i I " ! t ... v t . v." .; f J X . : 4 f; ' : ' ' , r . ...-.-V..-JJ 1 i '' i s X, ! I I t PAUL GREEN play will be shown on the stage of the theatre, and at nine o'clock Mr. Kenneth Ness will conduct a class in life drawing. Friday Friday night at eight o'clock, the Writer's Session will be held in the WELL Well, since last July have been watching with sympathy the at tempts to firmly establish the honor system in a hybrid, V-12 and Civilian college. Crises have appeared quite often proving that the honor sys tem was not working as smoothly as was expected. Now we are faced with another crisis, even more serious than the last. We have a new group of students on this cam pus, a vast majority of which have never worked under an honor sys tem and do not believe that one will work. We are faced with the task of selling them on the honor system. A feeble attempt at that was tried last Thursday evening. We are not criticizing the words or thoughts of the speakers but the method. In our opinion, it failed to accomplish its purpose. If anything, it did more harm than good. The very audible evidence of lack of audience interest proved that they were not interested in what was being said. We believe in the honor system and have seen it work. It is hoped that the further attempts of Turk Newsome will meet with success. We feel that the honor system could work as well now as it has in the history of the University. It requires now, as always, coopera tion from all students. Now that it has been explained, though perhaps not in a sensible fashion, all of the new students know full well the sys tem under which they are working and taking exams. It remains for them to devote some thought on the matter, not just to shove it aside as something which does not concern them. If they compare the results under the honor system to those un der no system at all, we're sure that the advantages under the former, for all concerned,' would be obvious. ; Now that Spring has come, and. rose in hand our threadbare resolu tions of work apieces torn (apolo gies to Omar) we wonder more than ever if this is really the Navy we are in. We have heard more than a few newcomers from theaters of war state that they find it hard to believe such a place as this can exist under the name Navy. We; believe this is a tribute to the success attained by the University in carrying out the program that was defined at the con ception of the V-12 Collegia Train ing Program. It is feared by some that the program is too liberal, and that too much freedom is allowed in this phase of training. We have yet to see where a full, broad and liberal curriculum damages in the least the ability of a man to fight in a war. On the contrary, it would seem that a force consisting of men who knew what they were fighting for and the opportunities victory will bring to them and their allies, would fight with greater eff ectiveness. It is with mixed emotions of anger, disappointment and disgust that we read of Wendell Willkies withdrawal from the Presidential race. It seemed to us that the Republican Party had produced its first real leader since Theodore Roosevelt in this man. His only crime was that he would not play ball with the machines. He did what he thought was best and when he made a mistake, admitted it. Not a man of the politicians but more a Council. Art, Music, Drama To Be Stressed .Graham Memorial lounge, featuring reviews, stories, and essays in criti cisms, as well as the CWC citations for the year. Saturday the week long program will end with a Dance recital on the Playmaker stage pre sented by the dance club of the De partment of Physical Education for Women in collaboration with the Dance Club of the N. C. College for Negroes. The Carolina Workshop is an or ganization of students and faculty members having as its main purpose the integration and promotion of student activity in writing, music, theatre, fine arts, photography and dancing especially in the creative fields. It operates under the guid ance of a representative council. All Invited All students, faculty and towns people are cordially invited to at tend and participate in the Festival. A completed and detailed outline of the Festival, .including time and places, will be given in the Satur day issue of the Tar Heel. By Bill Howard and Fred Loeffler man of the people, this man might have carried the Republican Party to its first real victory in over a decade. The events seem to predict the continuation of the Democratic Party in power for another four years. We were quite surprised, upon looking over the theater attractions for the coming week, to find two fine pictures billed, "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" and "See Here Private Hargrove." These two films are among the best of the current season. They are also far better than the current filmfare that Hollywood has been turning out for the past few months. For a long time, we were afraid that the University Party would be unopposed in the current election, but finally a list of candidates has .been announced. Far from being dead, this should be one of the most interesting campaigns in many a year. Next we hope to be able to analyze the various candidates for the benefit of the readers. . The Sun-Bath team has been won dering when the outdoor pool will be opened. We have heard that it will be sometime in May pending re pairs. . . . For those that are inter ested Miss Yokley has a bad case of poison oak. . . . Frank Adams has finally finished the requirements for his Phys Ed major and should be leaving the campus soon. PLAY (Continued from first page) babe to be abandoned some deserted place. Hermione faints and is' reported dead to Leontes. The baby girl is left by a courtier on the coast of Bohemia and is adopted by a lonely shepherd. Sixteen years elapse and we find Perdita, the daugh ter of the shepherd, is attracting the attention of Florizel, son of King Polix enes. Polixenes forbids his son to marry a shepherd's daughter, so the lovers elope to Sicily. Polixenes, des perate, follows. Pretending to be envoys of good will from Bohemia, Florizel and Perdita are received royally by Leontes. When Polixenes arrives, the old friends are reunited. Leontes isfurther overjoyed by the old shepherd's evidence, which establishes beyond a doubt that Per dita is Leontes' long lost daughter. Only the remembrance of Hermione's death mars Leontes' complete joy. In a hidden chapel he is shown a statue which comes to life with the playing of beautiful music It is Hermione, who has lived in seclusion for sixteen years, languishing the loss of her daughter. Thus Leontes regains the love of his wife, the retum of his daughter and heir, and a new son in the person of Florizel. The final casting will be announced by Proff Koch on Saturday. The set tings and costumes, designed by Fos ter Fitz-Simons, are of the colorful early Italian Renaissance period. The play wiU be augmented in true Shakespearean manner by music and dance. The choreography is under the direction of Tom Avera.
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