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THE TAR HEEL
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1945
-OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE PUBLICATIONS UNION
SERVING CIVILIAN AND MILITARY STUDENTS AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
, ROBERT MORRISON
JAMES SANFORD 1
HOWARD MERRY
IRWIN SMALLWOOD
JACK LACKEY
, Editor
.Managing Editor
Associate Managing, Editor
Sports Editor
z News Editor
BUDDY GLENN .
BETTIE GAITHER.
HARRISON TENNEY.
Assistant Editor
Business Manager
Circulation Manager
Phones : Editor, F-3141; Managringr Editor ani Associate Editor, F-3146; Sport3 Editor,
9886 r Business and Circulation Managers, 86411
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i March 8, 1879. ' .
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CAMPUS RETURNS TO NORMALCY
The campus, began to take on the appearance of the pre-war
Carolina this week when hundreds of freshmen, veterans, and
new coeds formed the first wave of tne great invasion. Sev
eral Pre-Flight Dormitories are being turned back to the Uni
versity while civilian men are. slowly pushing the V-12 and
NROTC off-the campus".
A hearty welcome goes to all of these new students, who
must be made to feel as soon as possible that they are a real part
of Carolina. Both the men and the coeds were given a splendid
orientation program by the Student Honor Council and the Wo
man's Government Association. -
The fact that now is the time for the students to make plans
for a great future is everywhere evident. There are some con
servatives in student government who will delay our reconver
sion. We must be on guard against such poisonous statements
as "We are not yet ready to plan for a peacetime campus. There
are not enough students here to build a structure like that we
had before the war."
had, we are sure that it coulc have infallibly proved that Dook
University was the sole institution which developed the atomic
bomb. Or, it is even more likely that the Chronicle could have
proved that the staff of the Chronicle gave x guidance to the
physics and chemistry departments while they were making the
bombs.
FRESHMEN ORIENTATION
Bill McKenzie, Archie Hootf, Walt Brinkley, and the other
members of the Student Council are to be commended on their
work in connection with their work on the Freshman Orienta
tion program. All phases of the program-have been carried out
in a friendly and instructive manner.
It is more important than ever before that the new Carolina
men know, understand, and respect Carolina's unwritten tradi
tions as well as her written codes.
Respect and self -discipline are very important attributes which
should be possessed by all citizens of the Carolina campus if
democratic student is to flourish at the University. The Council
and its members have contributed to the stimulation of these
desirable characteristics. -
j
, Life Can Be Beautiful
By Dick and Wye
(Q Forum
DUBIOUS CARNIVAL
, The carnival which was held near Chapel Hill this week
aroused a great deal of unfavorable comment among the student
body. Several students have declared that the gambling devices
sponsored by the carnival were maliciously unfair. A great
deal of student money was lost in these gambling devices this
week.
This carnival was of a nature which we believe to be detri
mental to the University community. Many new students, who
were rather uncautious, lost up to a hundred dollars. Such a
loss of money by minors on gambling devices is a disgrace to
this community.
We hope that the people of the community Who sponsored the
carnival will be more careful in the future. The police and city
government should look into the matter to protect the people who
patronize such affairs in good faith.
TO THE NEW STUDENTS
All new students who wish to become affiliated with extra
- curricular activities are cordially invited to come to the Tar Heel
staF meetings on Sunday and Thursday nights when the re
porters who are acquainted with all parts of the campus can
furnish any needed information.
The system of student activities is complex, and promises
to be even more so in the coming year. The Tar Heel has al
ways endeavored to act as a distributing agency for any needed
information. We consider it our responsibility to keep persons
on our staff who are qualified to speak for many different student
activities. .
New students and old students are cordially invited to come
around to our office and try their hand at journalism. We are
now receiving applications for staff positions, and trial beats
are being given out for each issue.
The other two publications, the Carolina Mag and the Yackety ,
1 Yack,' also need more qualified staff members. Connie Hendren,
Mag editor, hopes to begin work immediately. The Yack is tem
porarily dormant, but should become active about the first of
next term.
A host of fine organizations on the campus are ready to re
ceive new members. Find out what organizations are devoted
to your special interests, and apply for membership.
- DOOK INVENTS ATOMIC BOMB?
We were certainly glad to read in every college newspaper
from Durham to Pasadena that every college from Durham to
Pasadena was to some large degree responsible for the devel-
.-1- J J 11 J 1. 1 Tl . , .
wpmexii, ox uie atomic oomu. it is certainly good to Know tnat
the institutions of higher learning "in the United States were
responsible for the defeat of Japan, but we can't quite see how
all of them could have been almost solely responsible. We were
Of the oninion that the Phvsics Dermrmpnt. n r. tip TTniwrsitv
of North Carolina -discovered the atomic bomb, but now it seems
that credit is being claimed by others.
However, some solution to the problem seems to lie in the
fact that about half a dozen college newspapers claim to be the
oldest in the nation,, about three claim to be the oldest daily,
. about ten claim to be the largest, and nearly all of them claim
to be the best.
Unfortunately for the Dooksters, the infamous Duke Chron
icle was not able to continue publication this summer, but if it
Feeling it our divine duty to hide
our talents no longer, we have con
sented, after much bickering, salary-baiting,
etc., (we have agreed
to pay the paper ten dollars, per
to print our stuff) to come forth
and present our own sordid, preju
diced, biased and uncalled-for views
on various aspects of life as we see
it. .
To our readers wje promise this:
we shall persecute no individual or
campus group, for only the good
Lord Himself knows how persecut
ed we have been; we will sponsor
no crusades, although we do have
one idea to have a blanket exchange
constructed somewhere near the
Arboretum (some dew on the
grass, you know) ; we shall side
with no political party, for neither
one will let us; and, finally, we
shall refrain - .from discussing
world issues, although we have
been told by those who should
know that our opinions are held in
highest esteem by the intimate
circles of the nation's statesmen."
And, although we may meet ob
stacles in our quest for public en
lightenment, although our wheels
may strike many ruts on the road
toward truth, we shall always
grind slowly forward, letting our
wheels remain imbedded in the
quagmire. Amen. Amen.
But to return to our task, what
is it this week that has assured us
that "Life Can Be Beautiful?" I'll
tell, you it's pay. Did you know
that American servicemen are the
highest paid fighting force in the
world? Well, that's what we
thought, too. Ahhh, fifty crisp, cool,
clean, one dollar bills with which
to exploit our worldly passions.
But comes the revelation! This
week we sat in on a Navy pay line
and watched the eager men stand
with smiling faces and itching
' fingers waiting to latch onto that
green stuff once again. A yeoman
seated at a desk called out in a
high pitched voice, "Smith, P. P.,
twenty-five dollars." Smith, P. P.
paled and retorted, "But what
about the other twen ?" The yeo
man quietly subdued the excited
cadet, deftly slipping a straight
jacket over his head while explain
ing that such trifles as taxes,
bonds, insurance, red tape and
- Admiral Jones' birthday ball had
consumed the first half of his
monthly pay. Mrs. Smith's pride
and joy made a mad dash for the
gaping doors, his money clutched
tightly in his left hand. A burly
figure caught him by the Scuttle
butt. "How much did you draw this
time, son?" "Twe-twenty-five dol
lars," gulped Smitty. "Well, your
laundry must be at least fifteen
'smackeroos, then," he cried, snatch
ing the bills from the boy's hand
while at the same time giving him
a gold-edged receipt in return.
Then, in quick succession, there
came unit fees, gym fees, miscel
laneous fees and numerous debts,
which left Seaman Smith to real
lize that he now owed eleven dol
lars and eighteen cents for the
previous month's work.
Gibbering insanely to himself,
our hero staggered to a quiet cor
ner and collapsed there in a heap.
For three days afterward, he was
used as a "Roger" flag by the sig
nalman before his true identity
was discovered and he was forced
to return to the rigors of V-12
life.
It is because of men like Smith
that we are certain beyond any
shadow of doubt that "Life Can Be
Beautiful."
The cynics, who are currently en
gaged in tne prophecy that future
Anglo-Russian relations will prove
bulwarks to a lasting peace, are not
at all concurrent in their reason
ing. Some predict that Russia's
"obsession for world domination" is
a concrete reality with which we,
sooner or later, must reckon. Oth
ers fear that the Soviet's system is,
by nature, tentacular, and that its
future maneuvering will result in
either the world's or its own strang
ulation. However far-fetched or
realistic these opinions may be, the
events of the past decade have lent
credence, if not justification, to sev
eral conclusions :
Russia has at long last received
open routes to the commercial seas.
No longer will her access to the Bal
tic be overshadowed by a strong"
Germany, and no longer will her ac
tivity in the Mediterranean be sub
ordinated to Anglo-Turkish control.
Of all the innumerable results of
World War II, the above-mentioned
is probably the most important. It
will take several years for Russia
to realize the full advantage of this
new position. But geopolitically,
Russia has attained the stature to
which Nazi Germany aspired. She
now has control of or great influence
over every country in Europe.- And,
with the exception of India, her en
trenchment in Asia is just as power
ful. For China, already embroiled
, in her long-impending revolution,
will most assuredly turn socialist, if
not completely communist, in a very
few years. That revolution, con
trary to the ominous warnings of
many of our most ardent pessimists,
is coming too soon after V-J day to
provoke armed conflict between its
most interested onlookers Great
Britain, the United States, and So
viet Russia.
What is the significance of this
geopolitical position of Russia?
Within twenty years Russia will
not only have rebuilt her devastated
areas; she will be producing vast
quantities of both durable and con
sumer goods for which she will na
turally want a market. She will
have acquired a merchant fleet suf
ficient to carry those goods across
the seven seas. She will have com
plete and unobstructed access to
the world's commercial trade routes.
These factors can point to but one
conclusion : Russia will become a new
and powerful competitor in inter
national business. This conclusion
alone poses the greatest problem to
future Anglo-Russian relations.
The problem is not difficult to an
alyze. One cannot speculate on the .
eventual quality of Russian products.
By Bill Crisp
Certainly Russia's manufactured
articles did not compare with ours
before and during the war. But one
remembers that the war interrupted
for Russia an industrial progress
which had been very rapid indeed,
compared to the relatively short time
since its inauguration in the late
twenties. Then too, Russia is no
longer the isolated land power of
the past. The sheer force of circum
stances has assured her recognition
and welcomed her economic patron
age by both the United States and
Great Britain. Already, though' the
peace has just come, one may ob
serve an acceleration- of exchange
between these three powers.
And so one may surmise that the
production, as well as the quality,
of Russian goods is to assume a
competitive level in the not too dis
tant future. But this, according to
Russia's critics, is not the real dan
ger involved. The United States can
compete quantitatively and quali
tatively with any nation in the
world. But can she hold her own
with competitive prices?
The collectivist system of Soviet
Russia makes it positive that, the
above-mentioned conditions having
been realized, she can profitably un
dersell any capitalist nation on the
globe. With no private manufactur
ers or middle-men to receive huge
profits on manufactured goods, with
no domestic friction over what la
bor capitalism's highest and most
exploited cost is to receive and
with the Soviet government's being
the sole purchasing and selling en
tity, the low price of .Russia's goods
will assure her of an advantage over
any of her capitalist competitors.
Thus the picture is drawn. Great
Britain has responded to the inevi
tability of this international trend
with a turn toward partial socialism.
She is preparing to remove the pri
vate employer and owner and thus
the profit motive from her most
vital industries. Her counter-reaction
thereby places her in a more
favorable competitive position.
But what of the United States?
Once the picture is completed, Anglo-Russian
relations will have
reached the crucial point. Either
the United States, whose high stand
ard of living, like Great Britain's,
depends upon the stability of a lucra
tive foreign market, must move, do
mestically, in a socialized direction,
or her internal economy must suf
fer severely from a loss of foreign
exchange. The two alternatives do
not necessarily present a dilemma.
There is a third, more exacting
course we can follow: war!
Cogs of the Wheel
From the Bell Tower
By Allan Pannill
By Jim Sanford
The Grill certainly has super
service . . . big strong girls carry
ing trays for little freshman boys
. . . more than 50 persons mostly
girls turned out for the first Tar
Heel staff meeting of this semester
... the other night the coeds had
a reception in Graham Memorial
Lounge and everything was going
fine until they tried to open the
cokes and found they didn't have
a bottle opener . . . you ought to
see Morrison open cokes on the side
of a table ... he only breaks one
in ten . . . looks as though the'
Pre-Flight is on the way out . . .
too bad its f ootball games were can
celed . . we will have only four
home games to see this season . . .
the reason we get so many girls
up from Florida in school here is
because the great state of Florida
doesn't have coed education in any
state-sponsored school . . . now
i that peace is here it is about time
some crack-pot starts on a red
hunt again and winds up by swear
ing we all ought to go to Russia
. '. . would make a nice trip . . . the
line from the book of social regu
lations for the coeds that makes
us laugh: Girls who find it neces
sary to keep liquor in their rooms
for medicinal purposes . . . nothing
for snake bites ????... conditions
in men's dorms are terrible .
four men in two small rooms is
two too many ... a man in the '
meat business told us a few days
ago that there might not be plenty
of meat on meat counters until five
years . . . and that is a lot of
meatless Fridays . . . the special
elections coming up around the
middle of this month are important
. . . let's hope more students turn
out to vote ... ,.
We hear Flagler has reconsid
ered and will remain as editor of
the Yack ... it is about time the
Tar Heel receives ' a letter about
the line in the Y on book-buying
days ... it has always been a sub
ject of grip for the students ... a
dollar to the person who knows
what a wheaty nugat is . . . and it .
isn't candy . . . stood in Penn sta
tion the other day and saw three
Carolina profs . . . so many new
faces on campus these days ...
JletteSiA,
7a T&e ditto
Editor:
I believe that before you go over
board about Dave Clark and the
"Textile Bulletin," you should take
note of sentiment around you.
There are a great many people
outside of Graham Memorial who
don't approve of Frank Graham,
Franklin Roosevelt, or the slightly
"pink" New Deal regime they rep
resent. As for there being no com
.munist. professors on the campus,
I've never had a course under one
because .I've avoided them, but
how about T. Woodhouse, Dean
Carrol, Russell, Odum, etc. And
while we note these things, why
not see how the average student
likes the CIO, composed of Henry
Wallace's "common man" we have
all come to love since the rise of
the U.S.S.R. and the New Deal.
I'm saying nothing about Clark,
for I don't know him, but I say .
check your readers' opinions about
"right" and "left" before crusading-
R. H. Thompson, USNR.
A road, a wheel, a cog. They all
go together to make the events of
time.
To an innocent bystander it seems
that:
Our latest coeds are something
to be admired. Although they have
come from all parts of the coun
try, they have adapted themselves
to Carolina as if it was the home
they had been looking for. Welcome
gals, and may we seem as pleasant
to you as you seem to us! '
Mr. King's 10 o'clock History
class is either going to have to find
knottier room, or buy that Steele
dormer a smooth running car. What
ta racket!!
If we expect the latest arrivals
on campus to stay off the grass, we
might do well to set a few ex
amples ourselves. Attention stu
dents AND faculty!!
For the first time in many orien
tations, 'the new men were anxious
to attend, and even more anxious
to learn and practice the ways of
Carolina. Congrats, fellas, and glad
to' have you!
The Monogram Club might func
tion a little better now that its
president, Jack Davies, is back.
The meeting he hass called for this
Monday night should be the first
in a series of picker-uppers!
Ye Olde Alma Mamy has two
plugs to its credit. They come in
the form, of' Turk Newsome and
Bob Shaw, both old grads, and.
both coming back for more educa
tion and more Chapel Hill!
The University Club has missed
the boat again! No Freshman
Smoker, no plans for pep rallies.
NO NOTHING!!
The Chi . Omegas are going to
have an easy time getting their
meals. Brady's is almost across the
street from their new house!
Things I never knew until now:
Old East was used as a stable by
the Union Army near the close of
the Civil War.
Chapel Hill is the only town in
the United States that has its rail
road station within the city limits
of another town. (It would have
to be Carrboro!)
The University laundry is trying
hard.1
Midnight musings:
Now that the Buildings Dept. has
fixed that fourth step, I wonder if
they would see what they can do
with the third! Thanks for listen
ing to this column's appeal, Mr
Fixer. It sure is good to see so many
veterans returning to campus. It's
quite a change from the life you've
been leading, men, and we're all
glad to see you among us.
Won't it seem strange to see the
Marines that just left here return
in bow-ties and loud sport coats.
Those at Lejeune are to be dis
charged in about three weeks.
How in the world can MR. Wal
lace stand to look at that more
than life size picture of himself??
Egad, whatta thought!!
The Coed Ball coming off tonight
should be quite an affair. Admis
sion free, music, AND GIRLS
TOO!!
I wonder why those swinging
doors in the Y aren't left off for
good! It would mean one more
threat to mankind removed!
I hope these new fellas aren't
going to be bashful about going up
to the Tar Heel, The Mag, or the
Yack to offer their journalistic
abilities.
At last someone has given the
campus servicemen the word on
what's to become of them now.
Thanks, my red-taped Uncle!
Without a doubt:
We all hope that the mutual
agreements being worked out with
Duke as to property damaging
See COGS, page 4.