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PAGE TWO THE TAXI TUESDAY, JULY 17. 1945 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE PUBLICATIONS UNION SERVING CIVILIAN AND MILITARY STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF JTORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL ROBERT MORRISON . BILL HIGHT ... 1...... 1- JAMES SANFORD : : IRWIN SMALLWOOD BANKS MEBANE ; ........ ....... BUDDY GLENN '. HOWARD MERRY . . t- ..-...Editor Associate "Editor Managing Editor Sports Editor . Assistant Editor Assistant Editor Desk Editor BETTY ANNE RAGLAND ARTHUR- BUDLONG . HARRISON TENNEY Assistant Managing Editor ; . Business Manager Circulation Manager STAFF THIS ISSUE Rowena Willis, Thelma Cohen, - John R. Lineweaver, Donald E. French, Frederick Smetana, Billings Fuess, Jr., John Lampe, Jessie Gregory, Betty Tillitt, Betty Melcher, Mary Hill Gaston; Sam Summerlin, Billy Kornegay. t'VV:) lCi ' -l SPORTS STAFF v ' .)- . " Frank Miller, Dick Seaver ' OFFICE STAFF: Charles Robinson,' Curtis Butler. f S SALES STAFF: Sally Bryan, Natalie Selig, Suzanne, Barclay. ' CIRCULATION STAFF: Billy Jemigan, : John Lampe. PnWished Tuesday and Saturday except -daring, vacations, examinations and holidays. Deadlines Thursday and Sunday. Entered as second class mattes at the poet office at Chapel HQVM. O. inder the act of If arch S, 1879. Uets n ,aE and Nitl Adr Service, Ic :-The Staff meets every i Thursday iught at seven-thirty Vclock1 in the oSce of the Editor. Anyone desiring staff positions should .be; present tfew. '-ii. 'n'i r t a;i i e.itCyi u &. mim.'ilS 10 ; hi i-? t-fr The editorials are written or approved by the Editor and reflect the opinion of , the . Tar Heel. . AU columns and JetUrs do not necessarily re flect editorial' opinion. , V ,(' y ,; r -v 11' " The edtoriaL. business, and circulation offices are on the second floor of Graham MemonaL, -Presses are in the Orange Printshop on Rosemary jf We-will print a limited number of letters to the Editor. These letters should, be short and pertinent. - The, right to edit is reserved for al let- iMlo ef i ti a. iiS i7 .')'" ? f 'uv: ; .'1-r,t-''' i iv'f ?. ? : ; 3 i All assignments will be given out in the managing editor's office on Tuesday from 7 to 8, and Friday from 5 to 6.. , ; .. . , AM C-l i ' .'; f;- i V . ; 3To suae 'STOBDESOT' Blflf. 10 ill H if- 1 I t' v'.-tTT r r -J- - '-f ,-; THE UNIVERSITY LAUNDRY The laundry of the University of North Carolina has fre quently received bitter criticism from the students. Some of this criticism we think is j ustified, much of it has come from the never exhausted store of student gripe. uThe service rendered by the laundry; seems to be spasmodic in that the laundry will go through months of losses, late delivery, and injury to clothes, foilowed; by months of improved service. The average length of time required for the collection and re turn of laundry in the dormitories was once about five days. Often time required moves ;up to a week or ten days. Different dormitories have different, pickup and delivery schedules; the seific ij? regard to the time element is quite di'fferent in dif ferent dormities. Steele? dormitory seems to be less fortun-atefthaqrBattleTVance-Pettigrw;ir ?u -u ? r c u oj. The mending; of damages and replacing of buttons are fre quently neglected. Te inending and replacement service seems to wax and wane periodically as do the dates of delivery! The laundry, makes no attempt: to notify the patrons of obvious losses and damages on many occasions. The students prepare a list of alt articles to be laundered ; this list is placed with the kundry and returned with lit : When the laundry is returned, all; articles are usually checked off. whether or not they are de livered J Unless the student checks the delivery against his list, he might assume that the check beside each listed article indi that the laundry' has inspected the parcel and found it to agree rithihe lost prepared by the student. ..IVhen Josses and damages are reported to the laundry, ade quate replacement or re-imbursement-is i usually provided for. A lost shirt is replaced with some other student's lost shirt ; socks and other articles, in the same way. Obviously clothes are be ing, mixed. ... , A rather casual comparison with other laundry service at an other college and in other cities has led us to believe that our laundry at Carolina is harsher in the treatment of clothes.; We believe that the rather poor service that students are re ceiving is due to incompetent hired help. The laundry should employ a more careful check against loss at the plant, which seems to be the only explanation of so much loss. The war time conditions which have placed so much strain upon all agencies have not avoided the University laundry, to be sure. We believe, however, that a stricter control of checking and plant personnel could reduce at least one part of the problem. Injury to clothes may be due to poor machinery which can not be repaired during wartime. ' CAROLINA'S MOTLEY CREW There is certainly a heterogeneous group on the campus this summer. One has but to stand beside the statue of the Con federate soldier to appreciate the fact that all kinds of people are prodding these unpaved paths. 1 We have a group of multi-sized, multi-shaped high school kids studying music and .dramatic art, blonde coeds, brunette coeds, red head coeds, civilian males of every conceivable descrip tion, Marines, NROTC's, WAVES, Pre-Flights, V-12's, and all sorts of assorted sailors, commissioned American Naval of ficers, French cadets; French officers, ASTP's, professors, dogs, and hundreds of other unidentified persons. The University of North Carolina which used to consist of teen-age boys and white haired professors, has undergone 'quite a metamorphosis. , If you fail to get an education here, you certainly will have difficulty missing the experience of meeting a lot of rare char acters. , COLLEGE JOURNALISE We were talking to Dr. E. M. Hedgpetfi of the University In firmary the 'other day and he showedjusi a copy of an. editorial which he had clipped from the Richmond Times Dispatch. .; Here is sthe editorial: 4 :-v - "May we cite a famous man for the comfort of the embar rassed officials of William and Mary and as a reminder, to the people of Virginia not tot take too seriously the outburst of the editor of the Flat Hat on the admission of Negro students to the college. The gentleman we introduce is president of a renowned New England college. He said, in substance: It isn't a ques tion whether a college newspaper will 'fly the coop the only question is when. Sometimes it happens most inconveniently. Tor instance, I was nursing a philanthropist to give the col lege a quarter of a million dollars. At the very time I thought I had the money assured, the college paper came out in a blast against the very business in which he was engaged, a perfectly honest business at that. Someone, of course, sent him a copy of the editorial. That was the end of his interest in our college. I didn't try. to do anything about it, except to send for the edi tor and say to him, 'Son, I know you want to save the world by the editorial utterances in the college paper and I don't want to keep you from doing it, but please, don't try to save the world in every issue of the paper'.'' . . . ' "Is it necessary-, to i say " anything more than this concerning the episode at William and Mary?" - i-. ;. -:: ' The most disturbing fact-about the Flat Hat incident is not that the editorial .stated . that Negro students should achieve complete equality with the whites in all respects (perhaps not now; but eventually) , but that the: editor was expelled from school; for Writing such an editorial. ' The president of William and Mary acted in a manner all too typical of his conservative institution. . If such an editorial had appeared in the , Tar Heel, we dare to say that it would, have resulted in nothing more than the .usual receipt of several carloads of letters) to the editor. . Forum By Buddy Glenn t i WORLD UNIVERSITY? Revolutionary changes in our system of higher education may come because of the tremendous progress made in the develop ment of the airplane. 1 ' : ::: - : 1 'r ; ' , ;With every place in the world only a few hours away by air, it is conceivable that, within this, generation, countries, their histories and languages, will be studied at first hand instead of merely through books and lectures.- - : ; ; Eventually, according to a provocative article by Paul Schu bert in. the June issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, we may have a World University, which would have four, colleges located in the United States, Europe, Russia and China. : t . Subjects taught at this suggested World University would be languages, history, economics and religion. The college of the World University in the United States would be for the study of the Americas, in England or France. for the study of Europe, in Russia for the study of Asia and in 'China for the study of the? Far East. . . -"j;J-; j. 7 ..!: a . ' "Each of the four colleges would teach these subjects, as seen and, lived in each of the four areas," Schubert states! ."The Far Eastern College would teach the languages of the Far East, the history of the: Far Eastern countries, the economics of the Far East and the religious beliefs of, the Far East Elective courses in literature, music and the graphic arts would be available." Each class would comprise 4,000 students,! X,000 each from the four areas drawn proportionately according to the popula tions of countries in those areas. The World University would be co-educational and would offer post-graduate courses open only to holders of a baccalaureate from accepted institutions., In support of his tjiesis, Schubert points out that the;. United States Navy for years maintained a small group of American naval ofiicers as "language students" at our embassy in Tokyo and that their knowledge of Japanese language and customs has played an important part in our war against Japan. He points out that these men were not sent to an American college to Jearn about Japan but to Japan proper. - f : "Perhaps the gasoline engine, plus twentieth century initia tive will make some form of World University possible before many more generations go by," he concludes. : " PHILOSOPHIZING By John R. Lineweaver Women! A woman's heart is like the moon, is always changing; but there is always a man in it. Punch. God made woman to save man by love. Mrs.. Browning. A man, of sense can love like a mad man but never like a fool. LaRochefoucauld. To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -Rousseau. t Love has power to give in a mo ment what toil can scarcely give in an age. Goethe. Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am now speaking is already far from me. Boileau. . When a man has not a good rea son for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. Walter Scott. It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Swift. 1 Peace . rules the day where rea son rules the mind. Coolins, Orien tal Eclogues. God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undis turbed. Saadi. Advice is like snow: the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and - the deeper it sinks into the mind. Coleridge. When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. Haliburton. Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use. Phillips Brooks. A boy was once asked what love was. He thought for a moment, and said, "Love gives smooth an swers to rough questions." Mrs. Balfour. Be not angry that you can not make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be. Thomas A. Kempis. If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it. William Penn. Let thy speech be better than si lence, or be silent. Dionysius the Elder. Never be discouraged. Discour agement is often the last key on the bunch that opens the door. Shakespeare. Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the one who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. George Eliot. ... . Since most of the isolationists in the Senate have stated that they will vote for the passage , of the United Nations Charter, many peo ple feel that the fight for United States participation in world af fairs is ended. However, a closer study of the situation will show that this is not a defeat for the anti internationalists, but rather a change of strategy by them. The obvious reason for their vot ing for the Charter is that they are afraid to face public opinion on such a clear issue. They know that they will have at least three chances to defeat the international organiza tion later when the public isn't as vocal. One of the chances will be to hamstring the delegate to the Se curity Council by - passing legisla tion hedging his power to vote for action in - case of aggression. The fact that gives the "lunatic fringe" a chance to strike a blow at the or ganization is that the public doesn't clearly understand the issue .in volved. Anyone can see that rejec tion of the Charter is a repudia tion of international cooperation. It is not so simple in the case of an American delegate's power to vote to use American troops to put down aggression. The opponents of UNO argue that if he is allowed to-do that it will take away Congress right to. declare war. Unf ortunate lyr this will give the isolationists a chance to say that it is uncon stitutional to let him vote in such matters, without first letting Con gress make up its mind. The fallacy in their argument is not difficult to see. The President as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces has under the con stitution the power to deploy Amer ican troops to protect the coun try's interests. The American dele gate to the Security Council will merely be acting as agent of the President when he votes to use force in suppressing aggression. A compromise has been offered in the form of the delegate's re ferring such matters to a commit tee consisting of the President, Sec retary of State, and the Ranking Majority and the Ranking Minority member of the Senate Foreign Af fairs Committee. This proposal is not too unreasonable, but we must not allow the Congress "to fiddle" while the world burns." -.j . The other two chances will oc cur when the UNO asks for a con tingent of American soldiers as part of the Security force and when the Congress is asked to appropriate money for our share of the ex penses of UNO. ; The isolationists are hoping that the public will not see these issuea clearly and will let them get away with their mission of defeat. It is up to the American citizens - to study the issues and act. Looking Back By Bill Fness Tar Heel One Year Ago "Harvey White is elected as chair man' of Ways and Means Commit tee of the legislature." "The complete Tar Heel edition was accidently picked up at the Or ange Printshop by scrap paper truck thinking it was salvage. The papers were . found intact at Carr boro on their way to war as scrap." "Di i Senate J backs : DeGaulle's claim as French leader. Wednesday night the Dialectic passed a resolu tion stating that the United States should recognize DeGaulle as su preme commander - in . ; , liberated France." . . . . "Billy Kelly, UNC swimming star, ,1 won . the National Junior men's breaststroke championship at Clementon New Jersey, in the most decisive victory ever scored, in 'the history of ; National . Junior, swim ming. "America's literary figures hail Chapel Hill's own 'Quarterly Review of Literature' as a superlative col lege magazine in the literary field." Tar Heel Two Years Ago "Civilian - Navy - Marine groups share Carolina campus until the end of the war." "Carolina football team to play Pennsylvania in addition to its usual schedule." "Phys. Ed. department kills rumor of closing civilian activities for remainder of session." "Graham Memorial and Tar Heel are faced with financial problem. Tar Heel stays on weekly basis." "Fraternities pledge 22 in first summer rushing. Small number iext plained by 'imminence of armed Service for many freshmen." Dean Of Men I notice that: The paper says, "Scott is retiring.". The paper says, "Scott was made Dean, of. Men some time or other." . -The paper says, "Scott has done a good Job." The paper says, "Scott lives in Madison." The paper, says, "Scott has been active in civic affairs." My goodness! That paper! A Dean of Men never retires. He may change his pattern of daily ac tivities or . stop accepting , pay checks but he doesn't retire. A Dean of Men is born, lives, and dies but he doesn't retire. 'Taint possible! ; , Persons or institutions don't make Deans of Men. That's a part of the Lord's business. Universities and colleges find 'em and use 'em but they don't make 'em. When a man child is born he may have red hair, big ears, long legs or a flat head and that's that. He may also be a Dean of Men and that's that. "Scott has done a good job." My gosh! He has done a superb job, an excellent job, a colossal job! No one, born a dean, ever did a better job! f'Good job?" Indeed! Who writes for that paper, anyway? His job is the model for all jobs. He makes the original dies. He draws the first blue prints. He is the Dean's Dean. "Scott lives in Madison." Of course he lives ki Madison but he lives in Oshkosh, Kalamazoo, New York, London, Natal, Moscow, Paris, Big Bend, Whistle Stop, and Wide Prairie too. He lives wherever there are college men. He lives in the hearts of thousands. He lives wher ever men stride to be more than creatures. He lives wherever ideal ism guides human conduct. ". . . . has been active jn civic af fairs." For Pete's sake! He invented civic affairs. No one calls on Scott to help put over anything. Scott does the calling. No one puts Scott on a committee. Scott is the com mittee. No one urges Scott to sup port a cause. Scott is the fellow who created the cause. "Active?" He is a whirlwind. He is the pace setter. .He is the spark plug. He is the boy ho ,made speedometers necessary j . . . . , Excuse me, Scott, for popping off this way but some people make me so gol-darn mad people who start talking about Deans of Men as though Deans of Men - were just ordinary folks like Generals, Con gressmen, College Presidents, Prime Ministers, or Kings. I am glad you are taking some time off to attend to a few things you have been ne glecting. There are a lot of fish that need catching, automobile miles that need driving, banquets that need attending, books that need writing, gardens that need making, and wonderful years that need liv ing. These things are as much the business of a Dean of Men as bawling out freshmen, 'teaching dumbbells, inspiring seniors, or starting a lecture without a necktie.- . . . Be good, be careful, and have fun. t Raymond E. Manchester. Exchanges A Bishop attended a banquet and a clumsy waiter dropped a plate of hot soup in his lap. The clergyman glanced around with a look of agony and exclaimed: "Will some layman please say something appropriate!" Sana torium Sun. One wit exclaimed, upon noticing a number of new anthologies, "If you steal one man's stuff, it's plag iarism. If you steal that of several men, it's research." The Summer Reveille.