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Page Two TBS TAR HEEL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1945 W$z Car Wttl OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE PUBLICATIONS UNION SERVING CIVILIAN AND MILITARY STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL Veteran Calls For The Abolition Of Ivory Tower ROBERT MORRISON HOWARD MERRY . JACK LACKEY . JACK SHELTON . Editor Managing Editor News Editor Copy Editor CARROLL POPLIN D2WIN SMALLWOOD BETTIE GAITHER Sports Editor Sports Editor -Business Manager HARRISON TENNEY. .Circulation Manager News Staff: Mary HOI Gaston, Mickie Derienx, Bill Lamkin, Art Stamler, Mel Cohen, Dot ChnreliiTl, Frank Miller, Bill Kornegray, Jo Pugh, Florence Andrews, Nancy Hoffman, Sibyl Goerch, Hardinge Menzies, Dick Seaver, Barbara Spain, Francis Halsey, Eichard KoraL Charles . Kaufman, Lillian Leonard, Billy Carmichael III, Eleanor Craig, Sam Sommerlin, Carl Woreley, Elizabeth Pinckney, Bill Sessions, Glenn Tucker, Fay Naples. ' Burineu Stuff: Billy Selig, Charles Bennett, Ann Thornton, Mary Pierce Johnson, Natalie Sells:, Suzanne Barclay, Alma Young:, Mary Louise Martin. Circulation Staff: Tom Corpening:, Eugene Byon. ' Phones: Editor, F-3141; Managing Editor and Associate Editor, F-3146; Sports Editor, 9886; Business and Circulation Managers, 8641. Published Tuesday and Saturday except during vacations and examinations. Staff meets every Sunday and Thursday night at 7:80 o'clock. Any student desiring; staff positions should attend a staff meeting:. Deadlines Sunday and Thnrsday. Editorials are written or approved by the Editor and reflect the official opinion of the Tar Heel. Columns and letters may be submitted by anyone ; the Editor reserves the right to edit this copy, but it does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Tar HeeL Editorial, business, and circulation offices m the second floor of Graham Memorial. Presses in the Orange Printsbop on Rosemary Street. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel HH, N. C, under the act of March 3. 1879. , - . . . firmm tfflne EMOTS WOOLLEN GYM NEEDS MORE SOCKS t Students who patronize Woollen Gymnasium (this includes almost the entire student body) have a genuine complaint to of fer because of the shortage of socks. From a hygienic .point of view, soiled socks are a health menace. Athletes foot develops . much faster (so physicians tell us) when soiled socks are worn too long. - Those who operate the physical organization of the gym : should be the first to realize the necessity of cleanliness. If the shortage of socks is due to a lack of funds on the part of the gym, we would suggest that the overall expense be lowered by cutting the number of required classes of physical education. If the shortage is due to pure negligence or inefficiency, we sugT gest that the person in charge be made to better understand his responsibility. The Department of Physical Education is under fire now for its insistence upon five hours of compulsory physical education . for all male students with an "A" medical rating. If the De partment hopes to maintain these compulsory classes now that the emergency is over, we think the Department would be wise to guard itself against all possible criticism. Now that the war is over, the principal argument for the five days of compulsory physical education no longer exists. To maintain this program, which the Department undoubtedly favors, the details of plant organization should be carefully attended. Soiled socks are a small item, but such a detail gives the impression of poor organization. During the past months the American public has been the vic tim of more downright hog-wash on the question of veterans' read justment than on any other vital issue of the post-war, world. A thousand and one of the currently popular "quasi-intellectual digests" alternately portray the returning serviceman as some sort of warped ogre with both guns blazing, or the same sweet boy you saw leave, completely unaffected by the rigors of war. The truth lies somewhere between these two sensational ex tremes. ' So-called "experts on human re lations," not being content with muddling the picture as a whole have" flooded us with articles on particular phases of readjustment. The recipient of the most attention and the question which is of prime importance to us here, is the at titude of veterans to the American college. The colleges they are now flooding (though hardly as quick ly or greatly as had been hoped) under the GI Bill of Eights and Public Law 16. The great bulk of these articles picture the veteran as completely impatient with such "fol-de-rol as campus life." He knows exactly what he wants; he is coldly scientific and calculating in . his choice of subjects (which of course will always border on the pure sciences); and he can't be bothered with such encumbrances &2jsi Playing It To The Chapel Hilt By Morty Sief The bugle blows, he moves his toes, He starts to shout (Is Censored Out) The sky is dark, with not a mark Of breaking day, so hit the hay He does again, while Navy men File out of doors, and emit roars Which fail to soothe the dire truth Our hero knows, that he must close The book of sleep, and gently creep From slumber'land to make his stand Against the sun, his only fun, To lazily fall against a wall, To bang his head and fall down dead. 'V SPONSORS FRESHMAN EVENT Thanks to Bill McClammy and Sam Daniels of the YMC A Cab inet, the freshmen will have a field day at three o'clock this af ternoon. Thanks to E. Carrington Smith and the merchants of Chapel Hill, numerous prizes will be awarded the winners. Mr. McClammy and Mr. Daniels have invited the whole campus to attend the event; their extensive preparation certainly . de serves a large attendance. Mr. Smith, president of the Chapel Hill Merchants' Associa tion, should be commended for using the highly organized asso ciation to support the program. It is said we have some excellent freshmen athletes. The cam pus is expecting high scores. STATE SYMPHONY DESERVES SUPPORT The Tar Heel invites the students on the campus to contribute to the North Carolina Symphony expansion program. Summer school students will have-an opportunity to do their part now, and regular students may contribute either now or during Sep tember and October. A number of students recently asked to contribute to the Sym phony Fund and become members of the Society. It was suggest ' ed that they defer their membership contributions until this time. If you are interested in helping our State Symphony, bring your membership contribution to Bill Poteat of the Y.M.C.A. at Chapel Hill, or send it directly to the North Carolina Symphony So ciety, Box 1111, Chapel Hill. It is hardly necessary to mention the significance and value of this unique orchestra under the leadership of Benjamin Swalin. Let us not forget that it represents a social movement and it is, above all, a movement of the young people. The state is doing its part and will be increasingly responsive when and as the people in the hundred counties jbecome better acquainted with the potentialities of the orchestra. , KIRKLAND DOUBLE-ENDORSED . It is a very pleasant sign of increased Carolina spirit that both the Student Party and the University Party have placed their support behind the same candidate for head cheerleader. Both these parties claim to present the best qualified candidates for each office. The fact that they have agreed on as important a position as this would indicate that they are sincere in this as sertion. It is also indicative of the high qualifications of the man se lected, Jack Kirkland. His job will be most difficult in view -of the very short time he has to whip the squad into shape. Let us hope, for the future good of the Carolina spirit, that his efforts will succeed. Having proceeded to divest our selves of the foregoing choice piece of doggerel (verse gone to the dogs) , we may now breathe easier and look ourselves in the one eye of which the lack of sleep has not deprived us. For the past week, we have meant to make that one last roll and as certain whether that bugle blows a minute before or a minute after midnight, but we have not quite suc ceeded. So far, we have blamed it on the poor quality of caffeine em ployed in Chapel Hill coffee. , We, super-patriot that we are, honored with every decoration from a pair of eyes to a single nose, la ment the loss of our sense of values. All our notable contributions to the war effort pale before this noble, heroic, valiant, courageous (wait, this is just the build-up!), altruis tic (there, we finally got it out) sacrifice of not the last measure of devotion, but of the best hours of d' morning. In the words of some octogenarian (we claim the exclusive use of the word, and copywriters for the Octa gon Soap Co. who utilize it will be prosecuted to the fullest well any how, by the best shyster lawyer that we can find), or another, we, who have done so little for so much dur ing the course of this war, such as licking the backs of war stamps for old ladies are being sadly compen sated in the post-war world. And to think, throughout the conflict, we preserved our high ethical stand ards of morality; not like another tainted character (who will undoubt edly be known in Heaven, if he ever arrives there, as Taint Peter) who stooped to the indignity of licking the backs of old ladies for war stamps in the warm weather. One morning, purely in the spirit .of scientific inquiry and for the eluci dation of our readers, we are going to embark on a pet project of ours the murder of the man (or is it a man?) who awakens the bugler. Any frustrated neurotics who har bor the soul of Flat-top within them may join the merry band of Argo nuts. ... "You be Jason and we'll go racxrC To get our piece of the Folden Fleece!" At the current moment, we are engaged in running the tips of our fingers over our lips in a slightly downward motion. , r "Happy little moron, happy little moron. . . ." we lyricize as we pull the covers over our head and plug our ears with toothpaste in prep aration for the morrow. as football games, dances and other activities within th realm" of trivia. Is this true? Did the serv iceman overseas object to students carrying on with a social program (provided it did-not interfere with the war effort)? Did they object to students dancing, dating laugh ing; in short, did they object to students being students ? The an swer can clearly be found in the type of letters our servicemen de manded; letters with news of the home town, of the local gang, of any festivities; in short, letters about the things .he hoped someday to enjoy. Nothing made a soldier madder than a letter full of the trials and tribulations of rationing or waiting in line at restaurants; for these were temporary things and he just wasn't interested. Our serviceman (and more specifical ly, our student-serviceman over seas) never begrudged the students he left behind in college a normal amount of fun, always remember ing that it was, of necessity, to be a sharply curtailed program of gaiety. Let us not forget for a moment, .however, that the serviceman over seas still felt the American college student strongly obligated, obligat ed not only to him but to the coun try as a whole. Our soldiers and sailors overseas felt they had left "behind, in the American university, a strong nucleus of enlightened, po litically conscious students. A nucleus which would act in his be half; a nucleus which would watch with hawk-like eyes every new po litical move, every trend threaten ing to endanger the establishment of world security, ever-ready to pounce at the slightest sign of an undermining of our war aims. What proof do we have that this is so? We nood only to look at any one of a thousand typical army in stallations. A busy communications center takes time out each day to post world news, intercepted on tactical sets, for a large news hungry audience. The official Army News Service each day sends to al most every military installation in the world a complete roundup of world events; large attendances at voluntary information and educa tion lectures on the war situation; situation maps kept up daily by in telligence personnel; bull sessions in barracks, not only on the mili tary strategy of the war, but its political implications and social ef fects. Never before in the history of our country has a greater inter est in world events been shown on the part of a group of men corn- By Jack Shelton pletely wrapped up in the tactical end of a war. Is it then unfair for veterans to expect to return to a politically alert student body? It was downright shocking, shocking and heart-sickening to witness a segment of a political science class on tbis campus object because the instructor expressed a desire to have the students famil iarize themselves generally with the identity of important cabinet - members, congressional committee chairmen, and other governmental leaders. Whether or not it is with in the scope of a political science instructors' authority to require students in his course to be famil iar with these men is not the point (though a strong case can certain ly be set forth for this being a perfectly relevant requirement to the subject at hand). What is im portant is the results of an attempt on the part of the instructor to show that the students were not sufficiently well versed on this .im portant aspect of our government, an attempt which clearly succeed ed in demonstrating that an alarm ingly large proportion of the stu dents have not the slightest idea as to who the "men of destiny" of today are and what they stand for. Is it actually conceivable that a coed in this university cannot re call any Secretary of Agriculture beyond Henry A. Wallace? Is it within our comprehension that there is a man on this campus who can not identify Molotov? Is it under standable that there is one indi vidual in this institution of higher learning who has never heard of Senator McKellar and his present position of importance? These things, are not only conceivable; they are true. For these were the results of the instructor's inquiry, results which probably even shocked him, in their uncontestable proof of his theory of the lack of political alertness on the part of the class. Let us further point out that this class is made up primarily of up perclassmen. The veteran cannot hide his dis guest at so disappointing a picture. He feels he is demanding very little. He does not want the stu dent to be a Republican or a Demo crat, a Communist or a Fascist, a liberal or a reactionary. He merely wants the student to be alive, to be aware of the tremendous and im portant political changes swirling about our heads. He doesn't con sider a college stocked with row on row of "intellectual cabbages" something that was worth fighting for. Are his demands too great? Too unfair? The pure science majors may contend that theirs is to be a path of pure scientific impartiality, un clouded by the smut of political pressures (hardly a new concept on the American campus). Can these "scientific ostriches" still hold this stand in view of the recent devel opments with the atomic bomb? No sooner had the last vial been put down than a group of clergymen approached the President asking that the bomb not be used; por tions of the widely heralded Unit ed Nations Charter became obso lete; and scientists were caught up in a swirl they will never forget of mixed social, political, and scien tific aspects of what was once held to be the "impartial sciences." We need not labor the obvious with demonstrations of how th See VETERANS, page i. Cogs of the Wheel By Allan Pannill Unmindful of the barriers it must cross and the load it must carry, the wheel grinds on. To an innocent bystander it seems that: - Now that the Pre-Flight School is leaving, maybe we won't have to climb over the officers between every class. The laundry office goes out of its way to make work for itself. With every registration they take time out to make up new laundry registration numbers for every student. Why?? Everybody is doin' it. The SAE house has just donned a new paint garb. At that rate, fellas, you'll never be outdone. The local Whodunit Emporium persists in missing a good bet by not reviving the Saturday mid night shows. What seems to be the trouble, Mr. Smith? Our marching band, under the direction of Mr. Slocum, is getting underway in a hurry. There is still room for a few more musicians, though. The first few practice games of Snavely's Rammers haven't looked too good, but what better way is there to find out the weak points and iron them out? Thanks to the efforts of the Monogram Club, the campus may soon again be adorned with the monogram sweaters that a few years ago were so prominent. Nice goin', fallas. Things I never knew until now: The Carolina Inn is owned and operated solely by the University. Our campus Confederate statute hasn't fired that rifle of his yet! Midnight musings: What a big jump toward nor malcy it will be if the campus re turns to the quarter system in March, as proposed. So far it looks like we might have another quiet and clean elec tion next Thursday. I wonder if there'isn't something that can be done about those bugs that swarm around the table lights in the library? It is truly going to be a great Fall if all the proposed danees come off as scheduled! Fred Flagler has proved his worth again. To make . sure the Yack got off to a good start while he was convalescing, the guy came up here and saw to it .himself! Thanks, Freddie. Won't it be nice to be able to get a drink from the long dilapidat ed fountain in the Y? The thing was fixed Thursday. Like to broke my neck on that third step the other night! I wonder how many know that Bill Pritchard has received an ap pointment to Annapolis ? Next year this time you can call him Plebe. Too blasted bad that James Wal lace's vacation is only for three short weeks! Three years would be a delight!! ' ' Poor Mr. King! Now it's an un muffled lawnmower that's driving him crazy! Alas! the ten-day vacation report was false! Only seven unless some one can persuade the administra tion to let us register ebfore we leave at the end of October. Without a doubt: We are all sorry to see Cal War ren have to return home with pneu monia after just getting back on campus. Good luck, fella. All that is asked of any of us, is that we all get out and VOTE next Thursday, It's a comparatively small election, but we still should exercise our student rights, and show our interest in the choice of our student officers. And still it rolls on, creaking and groaning under the weight of its passenger, mankind. . 3 Old West The Editor Dear Sir: With reference to my letter in the Tar Heel of last Saturday, I wish to retract the word "communist" from the text. The word is unjustified by its full meaning and I wish to re move any implication involving the term from the gentlemen mentioned. Moreover, the letter was not in tended as an unjustified or indis crete attack on any individual but was a letter meant to curb one-sided editorials by the Tar Heel. R. H. Thompson. Editor's Note: We are glad, along with many of our readers, to see Mr. Thompson has now re considered his hasty remarks. How ever, may we point out to him a fact which has long been accepted by the people who write editorials and the people who read them, whether they be editorials on the New York Times or The Tar Heel. Editorials, BY DEFINITION, are one-sided. When an editorial ceases "to be one-sided, it ceases to be an editorial and is printed as a straight news story. Of course our editorials are one-sided. Perhaps Mr. Thompson should have said: "My letter was meant to curb all opinions expressed which do not co incide with my own." We wish to go on record now for Mr. Thompson's benefit and anyone else, that the Editor heartily ad mires men like the late Franklin D. Roosevelt and Frank Porter Gra ham and we are quite willing to be called communistic if that is what the latest definition of communism encompasses. We believe Dr. Wood house, Dean Carroll, Mr. Russell, and Dr. Odum"have all contributed greatly to making this the great university it is. We are glad, Mr. Thompson, to accept your retraction calling these men communists. Mr. Robert Morrison, Editor The Tar Heel Dear Bob: In the Saturday, September 8 is sue of the Tar Heel there appeared a letter (not very intelligently writ ten) by R. H. Thompson. Of course Thompson is entitled to his own ignorant views; however, I should like to enlighten him concerning a few liberal professors about whom he apparently knows nothing. If he would take some course un der Odum or Woodhouse, he would not only learn to recognize his pro vincial prejudices as ignorance, but he might even find that these men are no more liberal than were our founders of the present Democratic party. The only objection to Frank Gra ham is that he is too conservative. If he were five times as radical as he is, he might be able to strike a happy compromise with some of the die-hard conservatives (usually from them thar hills) who condemn him. In writing this letter, I am going to be more discreet than Thompson was in writing his. The professors about whom I know absolutely noth ing, Jr shall say nothing. And I do know nothing about Carroll or Phil Russell. However, I can say that Jt is my belief that these men have been branded by Thompson as com munists because they are entirely too liberal and progressive to be appreciated by a shallow thinking student of today, who purposely avoids men undoubtedly his mentally superiors. And to you Thompson, get on the ' band wagon, the world is going left.' Sincerely, Pete Long.
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