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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL TUESDAY, MAY 14, i94o 'The official newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is printed daily except Mondays, N and the T hanks ei vim?. Christmas and Serine Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the college year. 1939 Member 1940 Fhsocided GoUeeicie Press MPDfMNTtO to MATIONAL ADVCMTWmO Wt National Advertising Service, Inc. Cellegt Publisher RcprttenUth 420 Madison Ave New York. N. Y. CtKMO IMTM LM taUUI t Don Bishop Charles F. Barret. William Ogbwn Larry Ferling .Editor .Managing Editor Business Manager ..Circulation Manager Editorial Board: Carroll McGaughey, Bill Snider, Louis Harris, Simons Roof, Campbell Irving. Columnists: Adrian Spies, Bill Stauber, Ben Roebuck, Walt Kleeman. News Staff News Editors: Rush Hamrick, Orville Campbell, Fred Cazel Assistant News Editors: Sylvan Meyer, Philip Carden, Dick Young. Reporters: Ransom Austin, Bucky Harward, Grady Reagan, Martha Le Fevre, Zoe Young, Vivan Gillespie, G. C. McClure, Frank L. Johnson, Josephine Andoe, John E. Lindsay, Fred Broad, Bob Hoke. Staff Photographer: Jack Mitchell. Sports Staff Sports Editor: Bill Beerman. Associate Sports Editor: Leonard Lob red. ' Night Sports Editors: Harry Hollingsworth, Ed Pnzer. Sports Reporters : Richard Morris, Jack Saunders, Frank White, Yates Poteat. Circulation. Staff Assistant Manager: Jack Holland. Office: Bradford McCuen, Larry Dale, D. T. Hall. Business Staff Assistant Business Manager: Bill Bruner. Local Advertising Staff: Sinclair Jacobs, Bill StanbackJack Dube, Steve Reiss, C. C. Brewer, Rufus Shelkoff, Morty Ulman, Bill Schwartz. Durham Advertising Manager: Buck Osborne. Durham Advertising Managers: Buck Osborne, Landon Roberts, Leigh Wilson. Collections Staff: Morty Golby, Mary Susan Robertson, Mary Ann Koonce. Elinor Elliott, Millicent McKendry. Parke Staley, Grady Stevens. Office Staff: Grace Rutledge, Sarah Nathan, Oren Oliver. affairs, other executive committee disputes over the legitimacy of class ex penditures. The 600 or so members of the class, even if they knew an execu tive committee beer party was being held, did not know that they were the intended financiers of the social. They did not know that $30 of their money would be appropriated for keys for committeemen.. Neither did they know that one .committee member proposed that "travel and observation" be left in the budget, with a $1 appropriation, the difference to be shifted from "unallotted" as soon as the budget had survived the scrutiny of the class. They did not know vthat many members of the executive com mittee acknowledged that some of the contemplated manipulations of class funds might not be exactly "cricket," but that past action of other commit tees rendered excusable such manipulations on their part. Couch, Ericson ( Continued from fast page) For This' issue: News: ORVILLE CAMPBELL Sports: LEONARD LOBRED The Challenge Before Us Three checks came to the office of the Student Auditor for him to sign, which action would have completed their round of dignitaries for the affixing of names. But the checks did not surmount the final barrier. The Student Audi tor declined to sign them. They are collecting dust on the auditor's desk in Graham Memorial and will continue to do so for many days to come. The ap propriations for which they were intended had been duly passed by what is generally regarded as a responsible body a class executive committee but the auditor refused to be party to the expenditure of class funds in the manner the responsible body of executive committeemen directed. Executive Committee Holds Beer Party The senior class executive committee, composed of members of the senior class appointed by President Benny Hunter, sometime ago voted itself a social a beer party to be financed by class funds. The committee members and invited guests male and female held their party in the American Legion hut. Shortly afterward, Class Treasurer Morris Rosenberg, acting on author ity vested in him by the executive committee, drew up three checks (referred to above) for a total of $31.82 to pay the expenses of the party. . The senior class executive committee,' composed of members of the senior class appointed by President Benny Hunter, also voted that the members of the class executive and dance committees should receive keys, that $30 of this amount should be supplied out of class funds, the remainder of the expense to be divided by those members purchasing keys. Persecution Not Intended The whole story is told not with the idea of persecuting anyone or any group. The senior officers and executive committeemen have had'budgetary requirements explained to them. The Student Auditor halted the beer party checks and then set forth his rea sons. For the sake of the record, itTmay be said that senior fi nances are in good order. Personal Responsibility Vital But the challenge is present. The muddled situation of this year, the mis understandings, the occasional personal viewpoints as to responsibility to the class in handling its funds all are unwholesome. There is a challenge for higher standards among those controlling class finances; for a better understanding on their part of their responsibility in spending nearly $6,000; it is quite possible that legislative action may prove necessary to give class finances the stability of control which they need. The challenge is not to Senior President Hunter, to Junior President Kimball, to Sophomore President Alexander, or to Freshman President Crudup. Their class monetary affairs are in nearly every case now past history. There is j every reason to believe that class finances in general are in order. But the fact that the auditor halted certain checks or that other conflicts of opinion straightened themselves out, is not a guarantee 'that all will be well in the future. If class executive committees are to be unrestricted in drawing up their budgets, to be able to squelch discussion on them by par liamentary rules at class meetings, or secure their passage with postal cards, there is always the possibility that budgetary appropriations may be made which in the light of clearer understanding on the part of the class as a whole, would not stand one chance in 500 of passage. Once an item has secured the approval of the class (even though this approval be secured without proper enlightenment of the class) there is no recalling it. The Student Auditor and anyone else is powerless to prevent its usage. Chronology of Senior Class Affairs The story of the juggling act performed with the senior class budget must have background information supplied in order to be really understandable. Much of the history can be gleaned from fall quarter files of the Daily Tar Heel. Attitudes of the committee members concerning their responsibility to the class they represented! are obtained from other sources. Here is the chronological story: . Back in the fall President Hunter called his executive committeemen into session to work out a budget for the spending of approximately $6,000 of class funds. The budget published November 10 had in it an item of $50 for ob servation and travel; one for $350 for senior week; $100 for banquets and smokers; $100 for miscellaneous; and $150 for unallotted. Printed with the budget was a statement: "The class authorizes the executive committee to change the unallotted fund to any expense item not sufficient. Money not spent under an expense item is to go into the unallotted fund." Travel and Observation Much controversy arose in the executive committee session over the $50 item for travel and observation, but it remained in the budget. On November 15, the day of the class meeting, Hunter issued a statement in defense of the travel and observation fund: "Fifty dollars has been appropriated for travel and observation. The present class executive committee feels that Senior week programs in past years have been mere threadbare repetitions of old stunts and games. Therefore, it has decided to set aside a fund, minute in comparison to the total amount of the budget ($5,900), which will enable fel low cbsmen to visit other colleges and universities to observe how students there celebrate Senior week and to incorporate in our program any new ideas found to be suitable. . . "The last item on the budget is $100 for smokers and banquets. It is hoped to have several of each during the year, and to make them more elaborate and entertaining than ever before." (The Student Auditor in refusing to sign the checks for the beer party ruled that a social function attended by only a part of the class (the executive com mittee and friends) could not be paid for by the class as a whole. Nor would he sanction the beer party being charged to "miscellaneous" or "unallotted.") Parliamentary Rule Is Stumbling Block On November 15 the senior class met in Gerrard hall to pass its budget. The budget at this time had in it all the items listed above. Tom Keys, a member of the executive committee, rose in opposition to the travel and observation item and moved it be stricken from the budget. But another member of the committee moved that Keys' motion be tabled and the motion to table took precedence over that of Keys. The result was: By a parliamentary trick the travel and. observation item remained in, without even a discussion of its merits. . As it happened, a quorum was lacking, so the budget could not be passed.. ;;. . ' But the pressure of Keys and others began to tell on the majority member ship of the, executive committee. Their long and lonesome cries for deletion of the travel and observation item finally were yielded to. On the morning of December 7 the Daily Tar Heel had a story that controversial item had been stricken out because a "majority of the group seemed to feel that criticism which had arisen over the allotment might hurt the chances of the budget to pass . . - . v "A motion that Travel and Observation be stricken from the budget by Martin Harmon passed as quickly as the following motion to switch the money involved to the 'Unallotted' fund. This increases this section to $200." Once again a quorum was not secured for the class meeting. The budget passed by a postcard vote, travel and observation being omitted. .- - ".... .i Possible Solutions Advanced This is clearly a problem with two possible solutions. One is essential ; the other may prove necessary. First of all, class execu tive committeemeiuand officers must have instilled in them a strong sense of responsibility to spend money intrusted to them only in behalf of the class as a whole. They must constantly question each expenditure and ask themselves, "Would1 the class approve of this expense ? Is this expenditure being approved because an executive committee did the same thing five years ago, or is it really justifi able?" That is one solution, the one we strongly urge upon new class Presidents Hardy, Elliot and Hearn. They must appoint class executive committeemen who will place their standards of re sponsibility on the highest of levels possible. The other solution is a distasteful one; but for good class gov ernment in the long-run, it may be necessary. It may e apparent even now that the 'only hope for permanent good government rests in legislative action. A legislative committee to conduct a search ing investigation of each budgetary appropriation recommended by ! class executive committeemen may be needed. It might prove wise to have the legislature pass on class budgets before the classes record their judgments. Or review by the Student Audit board may be another good alternative. The complete answer is not apparent now. Study of the problem of class finances by class officers, by the legislature, and by others interested in better class government is needed before anyone can say that class finances are on sure ground. There is no crisis in student government over events of the past year, but the future may bring trouble, and plenty of - it, if past set-ups and attitudes are not altered. Is There a War? Banquet Starts (Continued from fit tt page) Stauber, Gibson's maternal urge, will give forth with the class will and testament, and Morris Rosenberg will review the class history. W. A. Olsen, public speaker No. 1, will be on hand if he survives the ball game between the Serious - Seniors and the Foolish Faculty. Don Rosenberg (no relation to the well-known historian) will go through an act. which is used "as proving ground in microphone factories. . Commander-in-Chief of Foo and ex- Attitudes of Certain Committeemen . V Major-General of Stuff Jim McCal- Here the story ends. No public mention has been , made of other budgetary I lum last night demanded that all Se- (Editorial) "Why Mazie, of course I want peace! Who doesn't over here? Wait just a minute; let me finish this coke. There! It's so hot these days. Why bother your mind about all that fighting over there ? I always say: what can one poor soul like you or me do about it anyway. Just let 'em fight. By the way, wasn't Gable delicious in GWTW? What's that you say? Ought we to help the Al lies? Well, I just haven't thought about it. You know' with com prehensives here right on top of us I barely ever read the headlines any more. England's winning, isnt she? Those Nazis just shouldn't have a chance in Hol land, not with all those dykes and dams and things. By the way, are you going to the Blackout Ball tomorrow night? Ought 'to be a whiz! Joe's dragging me; got sorta friendly over the weekend. What's that? Am I going to "Bury the Dead"? Heavens, what's that! Oh, a play. Is that all? Well, I didn't know what you were talk ing about. Sounds morbid. I don't go for plays much. Oh, it's about peace, eh? Well I don't know. Wanna cigarette, Mazie? Just changed to Luckies; Joe likes 'em. You say ifs at the Playmakers theater? Well, Maizie, I'd like to go but you know how much I like Cary Grant. He's on at the movies tonight. "Bury the Dead". Oh, I get it now! Catchy title, eh? Well, gotta catch a class, Maizie. Don't do anything I wouldn't do. See you at the "Y" tomorrow morn ing. Be good!" Memorandum: If you are inter ested in peace, the Co-op group will present Irwin Shaw's "Bury the Dead" at the Playmaker theater tonight at 8:30. tors, such as Dave Clark might extol. If I must choose between one and the other, I would choose the little die tator. That is not Communism as understand it. My preference is for a He was asked about the publication of Red literature and that struck a worried spot. "The American people must wake up to that. Radical litera ture is cheap, attractively presented and may be had in any book store. Rad icals see' to it that it is available every where, but where are your cheap, at tractive, authentic books on American political philosophy? The University Press is anxious to publish such books, and would have published them before now if they could have been financed. We are making a strong effort to do so now." Doesn't Attempt to Influence Students Mr. Couch added that he does not come in contact with the students, makes no effort to influence them. He was the Orange County chairman for the "Fighting Funds for Finland" drive and raised $800 or so in the Chapel Hill community alohe. That was significant, as will appear. Another Chapel Hill figure whose uamu vumco owu.ujr xix irw cmy kuxv sx i the Red Menace is that of Dr. E. E. I Ericson. This professor of literature has drawn the severe attacks of critics. He, they have charged openly teaches Radicalism in his classes. He, they say, is a sort of Red leader on the campus. He displayed his position some years ago when he had dinner with . the Negro Communist Vice-Presidential Candidate Ford in a Negro hotel in Durham, and when a demand for his dismissal arose he was protected by President Frank Graham. Dr. Erie- son has been under the deep suspicion of many since then a "bogey man," if you will. Rebels Easily Against , Reactionary Influence You will think as you like about Dr. iiiricson. I hat he is a meticulously honorable man his associates do not question. That he is a very liberal hanker also is accepted. In what de gree does not appear, whether he is a Communis a Socialist or plain Dem ocrat. Intentionally or not, he strikes an attitude. His associates on the fac ulty like him whether they agree with him or not. His students hold him in admiration. He is a character on the Hill. One guess is that he is not so much a crusader for any cause as he is the j rebel against what he considers to be reactionary menaces to academic free dom. Your correspondent questioned many students and four of them happened to be in Dr. Ericson's BIRTHDAYS (Students having birthdai get free tickets to the V may movie a k.. sailing by the boxoffice of the Car. olina.) Bronson, Mary Jean Dalton, Lacy Augusta Isenhower, Samuel Holeman Kushin, Harold Nathan Loocke, William Arthur, Jr. McRae, Cam Owen, Jenness Russell Raoul, Mary W. Vincent, George Jackson Wood, James Frederick, Jr. April 11 Aycock, Jesse Bardin, Jr. Dees, Fred, Jr. Fuller, Marion Miot, Jr. Furr, Walter Eugene fiobbs, Claude Elton Eirkman, Cordell Clement Lubman, Seymour A. Moser, Bernard Prior, Carl Rose, Abram Hewitt Steinbach, Arlene ' .classes. Speaking separately, each said that he had never been sub jected to any sort of radical per suasion by the professor. None said he understood Dr. Ericson was a radical and two said they under stood that he was a liberal. Asked what they meant by the terms, they said they did not know only what people said. Not a Communist; Voted For Morrison Dr. Ericson says of himself: "I am not a member of the Com munist Party. In 1932 I voted for Norman Thomas. As I saw the trend of the present national administration I began to feel that its reform pro gram had high possibilities of lift ing usxout of the depression.. I then decided to register as a Democrat. I have forgotten the date but it was the Summer that Senator Reynolds ran for office, because I remember voting for Mr. Morrison. I have kept this regis tration active since." Does Not Teach Communism Or Socialism Parents of University students will be very much interested in Dr. Eric son's next statement: "I do not teach either Commu nism or Socialism in my classes, or any other , political doctrine. I could not look myself in the face if I were to destroy my professional and intellectual integrity by using the classroom as an instrument 1 for propaganda." At this point your reporter had look ed in at three Chapel Hill citadels of the Menace. They the Carolina Polit (Continued on page U, column 1) 33 You've heard about them read about them wondered about them here they are! Archer s Nylon Stockings If you prefer the Archer's walking Chiffon or the stretchy tops we carry them also. EMM A N DEPARTMENT STORE n IT'S THE FAMILY Want to make a big hit with your fam ily? Order a handy, 6-bottle . home car ton of Pepsi-Cola today. It's the taste thriller that tops them all. And thrifty too ... because each big bottle holds 12 full ounces. all for Dean Bradshaw (Continued from first page) restrained sponsorship of beer parties. "There is so little to be gained by beer parties when they cause such re actions out in the state," 'he continued, "and so much to be gained if there are none and the University is permitted to pursue its policy of freedom." He' held that the fraternities are just as responsible units of the stu dent body as are the dormitories and any self -restrictive action by one should be enacted by both. ' niors wear Senior jackets to the ban quet as well as to all other events of -Senior Week. ml ligfey mm j
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