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i j ! SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 194I PAGE TWO TTTC TkATTV f A tl TTTTT'T pr! h . as tj lemf ' rj ! t j c! ii. r!: Cf The oScial newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring 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. 1940. Mnnbrr 1941 Pbsociafed Cc&e&de Press Don Bishop , Chaeles Barrett Wm. W. Bruner Joseph E. Zaytoun Associate Editor: Bill Snider. Editorial Board: Louis Harris, Simons Roof, George Simpson; Buck Timber lake, Orville Campbell. COLUMNISTS: Adrian Spies, Martha Clampitt, Ralph Bowman. Cartoonist: Henry MolL Feature Board: Jim McEwen, Lee Roy Thompson, Shirley Hobbs," Marion Uppincott, Faye Riley, Constance Mason, Kathryn Charles. Cmr Editors: Fred Cazel, Rush Hamrick. Assistant: Bob Hoke. Wire Editor: Mary Caldwell. Night Editors: Philip Carden, Dick Young, Sylvan Meyer. , Reporters: Ransom Austin, Bucky Harward, Grady Reagan, Vivian Gil . lespie, Josephine Andoe, Sara Sheppard, Paul Komisaruk, Dixon Richardson, Ernest Frankel, Baxter McNeer, Elsie Lyon, G. C. McClure. Staff Photographer: Jack Mitchell. Sports Editor: Leonard Lobred. Night Sports Editors: Harry Hollingsworth, Abby Cohen. Sports Reporters: Ben Snyder, Steve Reiss. Local Advertising Managers: Bill Schwartz, Morty Ulman. Durham Representatives: Sinclair Jacobs, Jack Dube. Local Assistants: Bill Stanback, Ditzi Buice, Isidore Minnisohn, Jimmy Norris, Marvin Rosen, Bob Schwartz, Jim Johnson, Ferris Stout. . Collections Manager: Leigh Wilson. Collections: Morty Golby, Mary Bowen, Elinor Elliott, Millicent Mc Kendry, Rose Lefkowitz, Zena Schwartz. Office Manager: Jack Holland. Office Assistants: Grace Rutledge, Sarah Nathan. Circulation Office Staff: Cornelia Bass, Henry Zaytoun, Steve Piller, ' Joe Schwartz. For This News: SYLVAN MEYER The Shift Toward War Befor this present storm of patriotism fell on us, we used to have a saying in our bull sessions that ran like a ballad "I guess we learned our lesson, ; ' Yes, I guess that war's for fools . . We said war was no good and only for the stupid. We walked the path of prodigals, but we walked strongly. We said, most of us, we would fight under a single condition at no time except when America was directly attacked. We had learned an awe some lesson from our fathers' mistake. Under the mask of labels, war was not fought primarily for ideals but for cold-blooded practical reasons. - We believed in no way of life but the American: we would gladly defend our system when democracy was challenged here, in America. But many of us are waver ing today when strength and the courage to stand for our convictions are . most needed. The elders who had approved us formerly are striving now, for the most part, to "shame" us, to accuse us of cowardice and laziness. Like a court of crows a group of them leans over us, scolding, pleading, striving to lead us towards a war we have always denied as bur own. Any day through the open window we can hear our elders' invitations: join the army, the navy; step right up and get in line; help stop Hit ler .. . Any day at Carolina look around you and see what has happened already. See how the traditional education system has begun to warp in order to "meet the demands of the war frjghtened. Stop to count the steps: the naval reserve, the CAA, compulsory physical training, the encroachment of dogma on reason . . . As the new year and new quarter begins at Carolina, war threatens to disrupt our scholastic life. Around us v begins the great chorus of parrot-tongues the men who 'National Advertise Service, fcc CaUexf Pml&ibeTsReprtKnftim - 420 MAOMOM AVC - NCW YOM. N.Y. Editor Managing Editor Business Manager Circulation Manager Issue: Sports: LEONARD LOBRED derive their catch-words and slogans from such people as William Allen White. Our elders are asking- us to join a campaign. They are asking us to rush willingly to the task of saving the British empire from collapse. They are beating up the war-drums to regiment our feelings. But there is another cam paign wemight make. We might deny that a group of pro-war politicians have the democratic right to say you and I must torture and murder and be tortured or murdered in a war that is not our own, and in a war where we run the tremendous risk of losing everything America has gained. God knows we want the British to be victorious - but not at the price of the death of American democracy. We must be sure that in aiding the Eng lish we draw a line beyond which we cannot go. You and I are being' subject- ' ed to the most dangerous war propaganda ever conceived. If we make a careful and courag eous path ahead now, we may find in America some day the democracy we dream of a true American democracy. S. R. Hal Kemp Entertainers, band leaders, and newspaper columnists all over the nation paid tribute to Carolina alumnus Hal Kemp , whose death shocked all music lovers and - those . associated with the University. Eulogies for Kemp the man cannot, however, fill the place he made in the entertainment world as a good-will agent for the University. His style and his unfinished work will carry on. Yet, the work of Hal Kemp will not be felt until long after his death: The pleasure he spread with his soft, sophis ticated music was felt by mil lions over three continents. The good he did in making the name of North Carolina an honored one will certainly be missed. The aid and encour agement he gave young band leaders was invaluable. Along with our scholars, statesmen, Of Mice By SIMONS ROOF The Democratic Army Of course America is a long: way from fascism. Racial hatred and oppression are a part of the Europ ean plan. This thing: happening: to Negroes in Amer iff igyqyrff ica is only an ac cident. Take the accident as it is happening: in the Army. Among the 62, 200 licensed pi lots in service, ISO are Negroes. An Army Bill was passed in .vs. '-i-.-yy'ir' ' -W : ft k X-Z Ay.-.v-v.. r -' -"v-:-:vX March 1939 setting up ... a special school to train Negro pilots. The school has been forgotten a long time. The Army is so busy. Technical jobs reruire intelligence in the worker. Of the 180,000 men Eight Oil The Hill By Bill Snider Spengler and Christmas The late Oswald Spengler would have enjoyed American Christmas 1940. Mr. Spengler is the disturb ing German scholar who popped up back in 1917 with af oreboding prophecy for Western civiliza tion. Although scientists and historians have lamblasted the "facts" in his i n te re sting theory and crit ics have labeled it the prelude to Nazi barbarism, his major volume, which so accurate ly warned of a "return of the Caes ars," still packs a fascinating wal lop. In "The Decline of the West" Spengler describes the civilizations of all late, highly developed cultures (including our Western) as "exist ence without inner form." For that reason he would have been particul arly interested in looking in on American Christmas 1940. Certain ly our holiday season with its lavish spending, its impressive manifesta tions of splendor and show, and its dazzling colored lights flung extrava gantly over the face of a nation has been a brilliant demonstration of the gaudy, carefree exterior of the American mind and an ominous whiff of the shivering, insecure ' soul of the people. Chattanooga had its 50 ft. neon star. Denver lighted up the plains with a neon-lighted Santa beaming from a 350 ft. skyscraper. From Florida and California . came the familiar bathing cuties cutting cap ers with St Nick. New York's Rockefeller Plaza lighted an 82 ft. Christmas tree. A man in West New ton, Mass. adorned a tree in front of his residence with 8,500 blue bulbs. Across the United States in lesser degree but still with the typi cal American desire to have the "biggest or the "best" the mad de sire to chase away darkness was the same. America put on the dress of Christ mas but it was difficult indeed to . feel the inner spirit of the festive holiday. LIFE described it this way: "Christmas tide of 1940, though gay, bore with it little of the sweet old remembrance of things past, little of the fragrance of evergreens, can dles, carols, still snows and silent skies. It brought instead a hectic flush. Streamlined, mass-produced , mechanical Santas of identical im age grinned and nodded in depart- ment store windows from coast to coast. . . ; Decorators did tricks with electricity and plastics. Comic strip characters and bathing beau ties intruded on a show once domi nated by the Magi and the Virgin Mary. ' Phonograph owners flocked " to buy a recording of 'Silent Night and 'Adeste Fideles' crooned by Bing "Crosby." . Everywhere in greater degree educators, and other leaders, our alumni in the entertain ment world serve as represen tatives of the University who 'further the name of Carolina by spreading happiness and fun. ,It will be a long time until another Hal Kemp comes to Carolina. But, his inspiration will continue to bring forth and develop leaders in the en tertainment field from Caro lina men for many years to come. in training for technical jobs, three are Negroes. But there is . every chance for a Negro. It just happens that only three in every 180,000 are as smart as white men. At State universities a student in the ROTC is given an officer's commission in his third or fourth year. Negro students are allowed to remain in the ROTC two years. Two years, it is argued, is a waste of training anyhow. Negroes are like domesticated animals. If the Army uses plans similar" to those of the world war conscription, four-fifths of the Negro enlistees will enter la bor batallions. " Negroes dont need two years training to know how to use axes and shovels. : Conscription is in effect in order to preserve American democracy. Army off icials should be proud. Isnt democracy being preserved nicely? than ever before it was the "exist ence without internal form," the nerve excitement and frantic festiv ity of the great city culture living in the shell of things once warm and vivid and true. Whether he be her ald of fascist barbarism or not, Os wald Spengler prophesied the arti ficial mechanizing spirit that has been rumbling up on our horizon of the Twentieth century. Interesting indeed is his theory of successive cul tures springing forth from a fertile mother earth, each hot with the prim itive excitement of youth, each grad ually maturing through an active summer and fall, and each gilded with the rouge and paint and false spryness of old age finally toppling over to return from whence it came. Spengler's "Decline of the West" has long ago been read, reviewed, talked about, carefully tucked away and readily forgotten. He has been viewed by many critics not only as the prophet of the gangster-dictator 4 but in reality the provider of the ' intellectual weapons for the fascist revolution. His debunking of ra tionalism as the way to progress and his fatalistic comments about the weakness of humanitarianism and pacificism are said to have set the ' stage in Germany for Adolph Hit ler. . But regardless of all the criticism, much of it justifiable, Spengler's dark prophesies ring out across the years with amazing accuracy. After a Spenglerian Christmas it is still interesting to pause here on the open ing of a momentous year and re member again the prophetic mutter -ings of a man whom Lewis Mum ford has likened to "a black crow, hoarsely cawing, whose flapping wings cast a gigantic shadow over our whole landscape." BULLITT (Continued from first page) in 1917 when President Woodrow Wil son selected him as special adviser on Central European affairs. Wilson also found him instrumental in helping draw up wartime notes and speeches. After the war and acceptance of the peace terms by the involved ' powers, Bullitt plummeted to obscur ity because he failed to agree with Wilson on the peace terms. He warned the President that the treaty was unsound. During his diplomatic service, he has served as special envoy to Russia under Wilson; Ambassador to Russia, 1933-1936, under Roosevelt; and Am bassador to France from 1936-1940. Rogers yesterday emphasized a ban quet to be held at the Carolina. Inn at 7 o'clock, with faculty members and students invited. Those desiring to at tend at $1.25 a plate should see Rogers at 9 Pettigrew or Lyman Collinsat H dormitory.- '' ALUMNI FLYERS (Continued from first page) pared for entrance at Randolph or one of two other basic flight schools. At Randolph Field there are more than 350 planes having top speeds of 175 miles an hour which are in daily use. The fledglings practices much night flying and aerial acrobatics dur ing their training in these planes. After this training the young former college students go on to advanced flying schools where they receive in struction that qualifies them to be come second lieutenants in the Air Corps. The complete schedule of train ing covers a period of 35 weeks during which time college men between the ages of 20 and 27 are transformed into full-fledged military aviators. idk ii MeaSre Sunday i " 4 A 4 1 ;-1 With the Cratehtliy Acknowledged Cooperation of tfte U-G-LI presents , L PAUL SHEPPE20 KELLY STRUDWICK NAT PENDLETON A FRANK BORZAGE Production Screen Ploy by Frank Root and Commander Harvey HaHiip Oi'recf d by FRANK BORZAGE Produced by I 1t J.WALTER RUBEN MONDAY DHAA1ATIC AS ' " J s r mm-i Hi ii n mm . - jfiM .ttLtmm ir.j SEE on onanisinae SIS Billy Halop Huntz Hall Gabriel Dell Bernard Punsley Bobby Jordan and WALLACE FORD VICTOR JORY ANNE 6WYNNE SHEMP HOWARD i WEDNESDAY A tender and deeply moving love story set against the gay and carefree atmosphere of Montmartre. lish wL III I 1 fl Hi GUSTAVE m JU y vLJ JiOiU CHARPENTIER GEORGES THILL ANDRE PERNET J THURSDAY IlHIl Friday BOB HOPE PAULETTE GODDARD in "THE GHOST BREAKERS' Stand by . for the mightiest iScf-dmma tinea "HsH Divers"! Aii-- dvUs . . end the becuiiss who Joy them . . in a picture without paraffef for romance for action . . fer spectacle! sr Also LATEST NEWS EVENTS - TUESDAY A POWER DIVE Hi mmm Saturday RICHARD ARLEN ANDY DE VINE m LUCKY DEVILS 1.1111. 1.I-I.I.III m .i.inr.i.Tin.n.n. - . - ixtt
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