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THE DAILY TAR HEEL,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, i940
Khz Batlp Har Heel
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By BILL STAUBER
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News Briefs
(Continued from first page)
Morris Rosenberg referred to me as
University Problem No. 1. Mr. Rosen
berg is crazy. Any ordinary fresh
man will tell you the biggest Uni
versity problem is South building.
They are always doing something
to irritate this peace loving student
body. Their latest achievement is an
Upset-the Fruit Basket" affair
which has changed practically every
office to where it ain't. And why?
It is rumored that several of the boys,
tired of looking out the same win
dows and watching the same students
walk across the grass every day, be
came restless. Rather than move the
students and the grass, they moved
the offices. It is all very confusing.
I first got wind of the change when
I mailed a check for my tuition to the
Cashier's office. Yesterday, I receiv
ed the following note: "Your recent
endowment to the University is great
ly appreciated. If tnere were more
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Girls draw up proposals for privilege to attend late show,
said show?
May 13-18 is Senior Week. May 20-25 is Senior Weak?
To beer or not to beer, that is the question.
Who
Improving the Status Quo
To abolish the status quo is often dangerous and a loss to civil
ization. But, to improve the status quo is another matter indeed.
We are referring to Dr. George McKie's recent statement in
which was embodied proposed future action by the faculty to abol
ish fraternities.
Horace Richter, out-going secretary of the Interf raternity coun
cil, saw that the existing state in Greek houses was due for some
heavy fire, and accordingly sought out improvements in the status
quo. ' v
His findings and proposals entail a complete reorganization of
the Interf raternity council. The crux of the plan deals with trans
forming the organization of fraternity presidents into a body which
can "bring about closer relationship among all fraternities in order
to bring out the best in each individual fraternity." Richter's pro
gram is based on the theory that the council "should be a source of
inspiration for those who desire to help teach : 'How to live with
one's fellows and how to make the most of one's self."
The plan calls for the adoption of a program which would make
fraternities an ideal training ground for citizens in later life. To
be a citizen, abiding by the laws, not passing red lights or speeding
through cities is all well and good. But, the essential part of good
citizenship, the part of college graduates in most cases the fu
ture leaders of our communities is the realization of one's re
sponsibility in a democracy. To know how one's particular com
munity fits into the whole structure of government, and more im
portant, to know what improvements and advances should be made
in a particular locality is a necessary part of a college education.
Fraternities, with their-closely-knit organization, are able to
introduce students to better modes of life, and to educate them to
the responsibility they will have to bear in later life. ,.
Horace Richter has proposed a solution to the grievances which
Dr. McKie or any other critic of fraternities have put forth. Should
fraternities seriously undertake these improvements they will
have little fear of future charges against them.
Duke to. . . . Well, we could, couldn't
we?"
Since then, I have made a com
plete investigation of the new set up,
and it has placed a new light on many
things including what makes the bell
ring, is it true what they say about
Dixie, and how far it is to Molly
bright. .
Allow me to cite you a few case his
tories. (They dared me not to print
this, the publicity hounds.)
Last Sunday, a young lad from
Creedmore, fresh out of high school,
was over here trying to get in school
next fall. He asked some student
where the registrar's office was. As
suming that he was in the right office,
he went to great pains to explain his
mission. A half hour later, he merged
from a horrible experience. In one
hand, he had infirmary excuses fbr
a week, and in the other was a re
cepit for his diploma.
Another boy, a self-help student? at
the Book Ex, went down in the base
ment of South building to borrow a
broom. In two minutes, the cashier's
office had lifted him of 30 cents, a
bid to Junior-Seniors, and a piece of
string.
A newspaper reporter, here in an
attempt to get a story from our Pres
ident, interviewed the janitor in his
dressing room for an half hour be
lore realizing tnat ne naa tne wrong
man.
A coed, thinking she was in Mrs.
Stacy's office, found herself address
ing letters. When I left, she was still
trying to convince Miss Mallett that
she didn't belong in there. Well, you
know Miss Mabel. The girl is still
addressing letters.
Such things cannot continue on the
campus. One of two things must be
done. Either get something for the
people.in South building to do so they
won't get tired of looking out win
dows, or place the building on a re
volving foundation. Personally, I pre
fer the latter. Maybe they would quit
riding the students so much for a
change.
Sacrificing tittle for Much
In advising dormitory and fra
ternity presidents that organized
beer parties by student groups
"imperil the willingness of the
trustees and others responsible
for University affairs to continue
their support of a program of
student freedom," Dean Bradshaw
was frankly placing the problem
where it should be in the hands
of the residents of dormitories
and fraternities themselves.
If the administration were to
rule that no individual, no group,
may drink, it would only arouse a
resentment among the students
and cause them to stage drinking
parties not particularly because
the students wanted them, but be
cause by so doing they would be
challenging the right of the ad
ministration to govern their con
duct. Instead the students are told
that the problem is one for them
to solve. They are told that the
administration "does not choose
to forbid that beer parties be
held, because it feels that it is a
matter of student responsibility
and self-government." Thus the
point is clearly made that dormi
tories and fraternities should not
have organized drinking parties,
not becanse South building says
so, but in order to protect the
broader student freedom which
might be endangered by continu
ance of such parties.
BIRTHDAYS
(Students having birthdays may
get free tickets to the movies by
tailing by the boxoffiee of the Car
olina.) April 12
Burkley, Ralph
Crittendon, Butler Parnell
Cross, Arthur Barton, Jr.
Ganderson, Harry
Harney, Wiliam Capehart
Harward, James Raymond, Jr.
Hines, Thomas Ire
Horton, Harry Perryman
Kelly, Martha Laetitia
Rubin, Gershon Leonard
Sherman, Samuel Sol
Smith, J. Hiram
Stewart, Jesse Southerland
Lee Wiggins
( Continued from fttst page)
short-lived journal has gone the way
of the Literary Digest these years, is
the sign of "Contempo." It was a pe-
culairly sizzling magazine for North
Carolina and carried with it more sen
sation than conviction, and then' blew
up. But the sign remains.
Values Mr. Clark
You begin to suspect that Ab, com
ing from the astute Catawba County
Abernethies as he does, has found that
it is not bad business to keep the at
mosphere of the leftish literati about
the place. He looks upon David Clark
as his enemy and values him very
highly as such. All of which gives the
Intimate Book Shop a certain appeal
to the young fellows who have dis
covered what is wrong with the world
and they gather there in broad day
light and argue and argue.
"How about this Bart Logan,
of Greensboro, Secretary of the
North Carolina Communist Par
ty, who is supposed to confer
with you?" he is asked.
"Confer with .?" No. I hard
ly know the ma".'
"He is supposed to come to
Chapel Hill and whisper around."
Abernethy waves his hand before
his face. "Nah! He comes here now
and then always when there is a
radical speaker but I never see him
talking to anybody particularly. I
never saw him take part in a meet
ing here."
So, that for that. Bart Logan, like
David Clark, is one of those absen
tees who are Chapel Hill presences.
You hear a lot about him. You don't
see him.
Student Union Views
Lee Wiggins is National Chairman
of the American Students' Union.
This Union just a few months ago
was declared by Chairman Martin
Dies to be Communist-dominated.
Wiggins is a serious-minded
likeable young fellow, very in
telligent, rather quiet and unruf
fled about it all. He is the son
of A. L. M. Wiggins, Hartsville,
S. C, banker, and is connected
with the also noted South" Caro
lina Coker family. His back
ground is one of traditional
Southern conservatism. It was
suggested to him that his father
might be fairly agitated about the
position he had taken, but he
. said that wasn't true that his
father understood him and they
continued on the best of terms.
"Are you a. Uommunisti" he was
asked.
"I am not a member of the Com
munist Party. I am radical in the
sense that Dave Clark (there's that
man again) regards radicalism."
"To what political party do you
adhere?"
"I am not a member of any party,
like President Roosevelt's domestic
policies, but I don't like his foreign
policy."
"Suppose President Roosevelt and
Senator Taft should oppose each other
in the November election, for which
would you vote?"
"For Mr. Roosevelt, by reason of
his domestic policies."
The Question of Communism
"What about Communism in the Uni
versity of North Carolina?"
"I don't know of any."
"Would you know of it, if it were
here?"
"Surely. We 'radicals' tend to flock
together."
"What about Bart Logan W
"We don't have any connection with
him."
"What about those professors who
make Communistic speeches to their
classes?"
Lee Wiggins smiled. "You
must have been talking to the
freshmen. My objection to the
professors, and I've been in their
classes for three years, is that
they lean too far backward in
these things. There was one
named Wilson, or something like
that who spoke out, but he isn't
here any more."
"You speak of your group. How
many are there?"
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JLiCBS Lliau tu ou x anuuiu oay.
"Do you consider that number' to
be the whole group of University rad
icals?"
"Well, I wouldn't call all of
them radicals and I wouldn't say
they include all with radical be
liefs. However, they include the
whole number of those who are -active
in the movement. I think.
The number is discouragingly
small in a student body of 3,600.
The chief encouragement we have
in Chapel Hill that we seem to
be. leading the Southern colleges
in the movement. Northern col
leges are far ahead of us."
"Why is your movement not devel
oping as you wish in Chapel Hill?"
Agree on Peace
"I don't know. We call it inertia.
Perhaps that is the reason. The stu
dents are not as interested as we think
they should be."
"Your members your 35 how
radical are they? How do they dem
ontstrate their progressive purposes?"
"You can't make it that simple.
You must realize that the ASU
supports various lines of effort
social, economic, political. One
of the members, for instance,
might be attracted to one of these
projects and disagree on all the
others. Still, he would be includ
ed in the group."
"Then, on what do most of you
agree and what do you do about
it?"
"Peace."
"Is that so radical?"
"I suppose so they way we look at
it."
planes and that nearly 2,000 tanks are
involved.
Casualties were enormous on both
sides.
The French admitted that the Ger-
mans were pounding soutnwara
through Belgium with amazing speed
and had penetrated eight or ten miles
into French territory" at some -points,
but asserted that only the outer
fringes of the $500,000,000 Maginot
line has been reached by. the enemy.
BERLIN (Wednesday) Germany
threatened -early today to send waves
of war planes against the British
x
Isles from her newly acquired basis in
The Netherlands.
Only a few hours after the high
command had announced that the cap
ture of Holland was all but complete,
a German spokesman said that mass
air operations on the British Isles
could be expected at any time.
- He pointed out that the invasion of
the lowlands had given Germany air
bases within 185 miles of the English
coast. . -The
inference was permitted that
today
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ts in Graham
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Durham.
5:00 Woman's A A meet
Memorial.
7:00 Vespers in Gerrard hall.
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Memorial lounge
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invasion?"
"Yes."
,ci sucn an op
portunity to stab at the home defenses
of the enemy across the North Sea
BRUSSELS, Belgium Germans
fighting in Belgium's heavily fortified
lines are suffering heavy losses and
were unable to dent Belgium lines
anywhere during the day, Premier
Pierlot said, in a radio report to the
nation.
WASHINGTON President Roose
velt won a smashing victory today
when the Senate approved his gov
ernment reorganization order, abol
ishing the air safety board and trans
ferring the Civil Aeronautics Author
ity to the Commerce Department.
"What is your chief Southern proj
ect?"
"To prevent lynching. We are sup
porting the - Gavigan Anti-Lynching
Bill.'
"How far do you go into the ques
tion of racial discrimination?"
"Our national resolution op
posed discrimination against Ne
groes and Jews and other minor
ity groups. We condemned the re
lease of 'The Birth of a Nation'
and 'Gone With the Wind' be
cause of 'their false portrayal of
the Negro in American life."
"TTinf. isn't nil nf nnrsp?"
"No, we have a great many proj
ects freedom of speech, academic
freedom, the labor movement, the
NYA."
"What do you do about them?"
"Not as much as we should, I sup
pose." -
And that was Lee Wiggins, South
erner against a Southern background,
National head of the American Stu
dents' Union an organization con
demned by Dies and defended by Mrs.
Roosevelt. He brings speakers to
Chapel Hill and invites the students
to hear them. He hopes, of course, that
the speakers will be convincing to the
students, but the Universitiy consid
ers all these incoming speakers as
just as much education something to
hear and consider and put in its prop
er place in the picture.
In tomorrow morning's paper Pres
ident Frank Graham, of the Univer
sity, answers questions about the Red nearby coast of Nazi-conquered Hol
Invasion of Chapel Hill. ' land.
WASHINGTON President Roose
velt said today he will ask Congress
within 48 hours for a large sum to
bolster the national defense and
warned that the problem of raising
the money was a minor detail com
pared with the urgency of putting the
dollars to work. Shirtsleeved and show
ing the strain of continuous confer
ences on the national defense with
army, navy and air corps chieftains
and members of the cabinet, the
President Cautioned the press not to
place undue emphasis on the cost of
the forthcoming program.
He will leave to Congress the re
sponsibility of deciding whether new
taxes should be levied to raise the
additional money or whether the $45,
000,000,000 debt should be increased.
WASHINGTON General John J.
Pershing, commander of the Ameri
can expeditionary forces during the
World War, tonight described the
United States as "in practically the
same condition of unpreparedness as
it was in 1917," and pleaded for a pro
gram to build up the national defense.
"None of us," he warned, "can tell
when we may become involved in the
struggle now raging with such tre
mendous fury in Europe."
LONDON (Wednesday) Thou
sands of Britains today responded to
a government mobilization of 100,000
volunteer "minute men" to resist any
German bombing or parachute inva
sion on the British Isles from the
"How can a movement for peace be
so awful?" '
Stay Out of Wan
"That seems to be the crystalizing
point at this time. The ASU en
tertains the idea that there is a pow
erful capitalistic movement in the
United States to draw us into the
European war on the side of the Al
lies. We do not wish to enter the
war on either side. Our reason is that
if we are drawn into the war we will
fall into the trap and lose ground
in social progress." I
"Is that why the ASU refused to
support Finland against the Russian
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