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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 194l PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL Kht Batlp Car Hecl 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 Wcrobfr 1941 FUsodofecl CbSe65cte Press Don Bishop CHAKLE3 BAKEZTT Wm. W. Bbunxh Joseph E. Zaytoun National AdYerfefng Service, Inc. A 20 Madnon Aire NSWYOM.H.Y. Cmicm tortom Vet MMUS Um ruMf Managing Editor Busbies Manager Circulation Manager Associate Editor: Bill Snider. Editorial Board: Louis Harris, Simons Roof, George Simpson, Buck Timber lake, Orville Campbell. COLUMNISTS: Adrian Spies, Martha Clampitt, Barnaby Conrad.. Cartoonist: Henry Moll. FEATURE BOARD: Jim McEwen, Lee Roy Thompson, Shirley Hobba, Marion Lippincott, Faye Riley, Constance Mason, Kathryn Charles. Cmr Editors: Fred Cazel, Rush Hamrick. Assistant: Bob Hoke. Wise Editor: Ed Rollins. Night Editors:. Dick Young, Sylvan Meyer, Bob Hoke. Assistants: Baxter McNeer, G. C. McClure. Reporters: Bucky Harward, Philip Carden, Ransom Austin, Mary Cald well, Grady Reagan, Ernest Frankel, Paul Komisaruk, Elsie Lyon, i Vivian Gillespie, Josephine Andoe, Larry Dale. Staff Photographer: Jack Mitchell. Sports Editor: Leonard Lobred. Night Sports Editors: Harry Hollingsworth, Abby Cohen, Ernie Frankel. Sports Reporters: Ben Snyder, Steve. Reiss, Earle Hellen, Dick Jaffee, Arty Fischer. 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, I Joe Schwartz. For This Issue: News: DICK YOUNG Wake Up, Coeds For many years, our campus has been famous for its secret organizations. On dark nights, a snooper can find huddled groups meeting on almost any out-of-the-way spot. ' But, we were both shocked and surprised the other day when we discovered that added to that long list of un mentionables was the nomi nating committee of the Wom an's Association! It seems as though the Presi dent of the Association under the present set-up names a committee the members of which are never known to nominate the officers who will represent the women's student body for the coming year. The purpose of all the secrecy apr parently is to keep dissension from fomenting within the ranks and to keep the, number of cat fights down to a mini mum. Now it might be all right f or Amphoterothen to meet all year and then have a full page spread in the Yackety Yack, without any other vis ible signs of activity. But, when we get down to a matter that should concern every coed on the campus,, then it is no time for secrecy. At present, we must admit that a lot of coeds come to the University to get a smattering of studying, beer at Aggie's, and a bright AB tacked after their name. As far as student government is concerned, their thoughts are on the vague side, and hence interest in women's government affairs is at a low ebb. " On the other side of the ledger, however, we find a small group of responsible women leaders who completely Tun the show. They make all decisions, appoint all commit tees, and generally lead the coed population around by their collective noses. The secret nominating committee is the prime example. As the Daily Tar Heel sees it, these two forces are now pulling against each other, in stead of trying to meet yon a common irround. The cod stu- Sporte: ERNEST FRANKEL dent body is lethargic and doesn't-seem to want to move. Their leaders on the Woman's Council are running a benevo lent dictatorship. Neither has a place on our campus, which essentially tries to operate democratically and to make each student responsible. The only possible solution can be an effort on the part of the leaders to realize that they must have an aware and alert women's " government. One way is to let the girls edu cate themselves by running their own nominations like open nominations from the floor, or even political parties , and to put on a campaign for more participation in the government of -women. The idea that a leader can operate without the active support of his or her. constitu ency is very stupid for, after all,' when you are head of an ignorant bunch, you are really head of nothing. Let's see some action, Jane. L. H. Br-r-r-r-r-r-r! The thousands of. persons who .attend the numerous dances in the Tin Can this winter will most likely develop severe cases of cold feet. In fact if polar bear conditions exist such as those of last year the student body will prob ably turn out en masse at the Infirmary. We haven't' taken a thermometer reading in the glorified icebox, but amateur physicists though we are we ventured say that it's five degrees colder inside than out side except maybe during summer when the reverse is true. By some mandate of some body somewhere sometime it was said that Woollen gymnas ium belongs to athletics, presi dential speeches, and com mencement exercises on rainy evenings. The management of the gymnasium therefore must shake its head when students want to dance there. This rule applies only during the winter, however. Our head for figures may be a little dizzy, too, but it A FAVORITE STAR HORIZONTAL l.CLate actress pictured here 11 Secretes. 12 Harvester. 13 To bow. 14 Fruit pastry. 15 Tissue. Distinctive ' theories. 18 Railroad. 20 Ancient. 22 Striped fabric 25 To originate. 29 Electric unit 31 Auto sheds. 33 Insignia of an office. 35 Beings. 33 Medieval helmet. 37 Fodder vat. .40 Bag. 42 Still. 45 Innovation. 47 Membranous bag. 43 Perennial herb. 51 Entire range. 52 Female cattle. Answer to Previous Fcsxle ni IA7 mm PiEiPin m W Ntft RECCOPI nijyi kJY 53 Breakwater. 54 Excuse. 55 Region. 57 She attained fame on ' '. and stage. 53 In pictures she excelled in TEHTICAI4 1 Sound of pleasure. 2 To cover the inner surface. 3 Heathen god. 4Tree. 5 Electrical term. 6 To subsist. 7 Fast. 8. Common, honeybee. 9 To opine. 10 Year. 12 Distant 15 She excelled in s on the stage. 17 Corporeal. 19 To recover. 21 Bequest. 23 Curse. 24 Work of skflL 2SIyself. 27 Like. 23 Pleasure of area. 29 Salamander. 30 To hasten, 32 Sloths. 34 Noah's boat 33 Rocking stone. 39 Egg-shaped. 40 To twist slightly. 41 Garret. .43 Narrative poem. 44 Row of a series. "46 To discharge 47PainfuL 48 Inspired reverence, 50 100 square meters. -1 52 Eccentric wheel. 53 Postscript 56 Affirmative vote. 'PPM5 b P I8 I9 P I : y ; ; ; 15 "" ; If Vp i lb 17 i mir JZi mmrVk i nii TF WW 25" 26 p I 128 "" 7pjpr S : W " 53 " 5T W 447 45 "4b 47 48 " zfeljfi.- zt 55 54 j55 11 1 n 1 1 1 rul 5. ::::::;:......... . Fish Worley and Graham Memo rial have certainly launched into winter quarter with a bang ... the Conga party last Sat. night was a huge success . - 11 (Fish is thinking of conducting private Conga lessons himself from now. on) . . . Wor ley's Super Square Dancers made such a hit in Durham not long ago that now they are in demand all over the state ... all this in spite of the fact that they were beaten by Durham's Erwin's Mill Team No. 6 . . . Wor ley's Village Barn (Fish's night club idea) is progressing, and plans are already underway to fix up a "date room" on the second floor of Graham Memorial . . . Fish has re vitalized Graham Memorial and the .campus with his new and different ideas . . . more power to him .". . ' The dormitory boys seem to have gotten the best of the winter dance schedule, what with Luncef ord and company ... they did a good job on this dance set last year and un doubtedly will repeat the perform ance ... sound and fury really typi fies the Sound and Fury advertising campaign what , with wild looking automobiles, screams, fits and va rious other blitzkreig tactics . . . maybe they're Keeping Up With the Playmakers in startling fellow stu dents . . . anyhow, Buy a Ticket (adv.) . . . good hot dogs at the new Book Ex concession ... it should be popular ... subject for the cru sading DTH . . . uncover the vice at the Parish house .. . With the coeds . . . dorm No. 1 is starting those popular Sunday morning breakfasts again . . . , Spencer is having a formal program dance this Friday . . . and Pan-Hel girls are working hard to make the , Saturday dance a success . . . Con grats to Virginia Terry, Wade Dean ; Love, Olivia Rhodes and a number of others for their expressions of opinion at the coed meeting Monday ... we need more like that . . . along the more trite line of gossip . . . m looks screwy for University funds to be poured out to cure sick students at the Infirmary while the practically unheated; Tin Can Influenza Factory works at full blast. Somebody is bolting the windows on one side of the house and tearing the wall out on the other. Pick Rank has been seen of late "with Percy Hollingshead ; . . Ace is in the Infirmary again . . . Poor Jo . . . strange souvenir that Droopy brought back from;Florida . . . pair: Betty Dean and G. B. Lamm also Charlie Barrett and Mary Cald well . . . who make a very attractive couple incidentally . . . Letters To Editor "The Shift to War" ' To the Editor, .; Dear Sir: Mark Twain, among other things, was a keen observer of human na ture. His shrewd ability led him to draw nip a formula for war somewhat along these lines: He stated that, at first, the great masses would shout, "No! Why should we go to war?" There would be a few, though, who would shout for it. They would continue to shout a lit tle louder until the unknowing masses would wonder whether they were making the noise. The small f minority of learned men (preach ers, teachers, etc.) would then cast a righteous "Nay!" in the direction of the bellicose. There would gen- , erally be a confused indecision dur ing which the warlike majority would shout louder than anyone else. Then the masses would take up the cry for blood. There would ensue such a loud shouting and stamping of feet that the righte ous minority would be afraid to raise its voice. The peaceful cit izenry who dared object to war would be stoned into silence. Then , would follow a war for which the small minority had agitated and a war which would make the un- - suspecting masses like to regret its blindness. This is only an approxi- . mation of Clemens' actual working, but I hope it shall carry through , my meaning. - I am sincerely glad to see that there are many members of Mark Twain's "stoned" minority here on the campus, Simons Roof and others, because I would hate being stoned alone, : Yours,, ' Bunk Gardner Dr. M. Pinsqn Neal, chairman of the department of pathology at the University of Missouri, recently won the 1940 distinguished service medal of the Mississippi Valley Medical society. ' Bi9!Fiai Controlled itndeiit (Boyernmient She Walks Alone-With Men By Martha Clampitt By Constance Mason What do you know about our Stu dent government? Do you know that the Di and the Phi, as literary societies in 1795, were the nuclei of our present day system? These societies undertook to regulate any misconduct of their members and since membership in one or the other was compulsory, the societies' influence was felt throughout the campus. At that time expulsion from one's society was equivalent to expulsion from the University, because the society charged and tried its members and guilty persons were reported to the proper authorities. Society monitors also supervised student care of the University grounds and dormitory rooms, and protected the honor sys tem until the Student council was formed to take over these duties Lights Out After 10 , How much (or little) do you know about our earliest student self-government? - s ' . In 1875 student-faculty relations were at such a low ebb that a re peal of many harsh regulations was found necessary. No searching fac ulty eye now watched for a room light xn after 10 o'clock. A stu dent was allowed to go to village during study hours to buy fruit, call on his barber . . . or his lady love. And "the most notorious in novation," says Battle in his His tory of the University of North Car olina is that "textbooks could be taken into recitation rooms." From 1875 on, offenders of the campus code were no longer called before the entire faculty, but before a Stu dent council. Serious cases .were subject to review by a faculty com mittee. . Honor Well Established Are, you one of the persons who think that the Carolina honor syv tern is a new thing? Or did you know that in 137 our present honor system in exsa. inations was adopted. Each stu dent signed the pledge as we do now" and quarter hour leaves f ron un protected exam rooms were allowed Before 1868, cheating on exan. was not frowned upon by the stude; body but pleasantly condoned? Exams were a battle of wits be tween instructor and student the student usually managed to prove that a diploma was no evidence of scholarship. It took about 12 years for the true spirit of the honor system to envelop the campus. And anyone who understands its past history would have no trouble un derstanding or following it today. Students Have Power Are you aware of the extent cf student government's power? This body takes care of all mat ters involving students . . . both legislative and disciplinary. Cheat ting, stealing, gambling, and lying are suspension offences. Inoffensive drinking is not punishable, but rowdy, offensive drinking results in suspension. Passing a bad check brings probation for a first offense, and suspension for a second one. The organ of student sentiment i? student government. And when stu dent sentiment turns against un just laws and regulations, or rebels against things undesirable (such as the Buccaneer), our student govern ment hears our complaints and avails itself of its authority to cor rect them. Speaking of student government in his report written on it, Dean Francis F. Bradshaw says, "The student who does not feel this force in student life and seize upon it, 'has not gotten all the University holds for" him." This Collegiate World (By ACP) The player's chance of being dealt a straight flush in a ' poker game is . only one in 64,947 times (if the deck ain't stacked.) stacked). . - And the chance of getting 13 spades in one hand in bridge is but one in 700 trillion times", however many that - So figures an" Eastern New Mexi co college Ph. D., professor in mathe matics, following a Dartmouth pro fessor's use in his class of chances in a crap-shooting session. Intrigued by the utilization of home ly happenings in higher mathematics, the ENMC professor fascinated his students with problems dealing with bridge, poker, and slot machines, with the slot machines for once coming out at the losing end. ' "' V. ' V For students found that the slot machine offers a sure chance to lose money. V Slot machines usually afford one chance in eight of winning on any giv en play, but because human beings like to gamble and ordinarily : con tinue to play their winnings" back, they apparently have only about one chance in 100 of coming out-ahead,! said the ' professor. ' v : ; " There are 84,480,000,000,000 possible combinations in a -regular 52-card Harvard Professor To Question Seniors Prpfessor Albert Smith, Harvard university's assistant dean of graduate business administration will be here Monday, and will be glad to interview all seniors who contemplate taking work at the Harvard Business Schools. Students should arrange appoint ments through. Dean D. D. Carroll's office. ; -v Send the Daily Tar Heel home. B deck, the goggle-eyed students learn ed.1 In poker there is but one chance in 4,165 deals of getting four of a kind, one in 694 of getting a full house, one in 509 of getting a flush, one in 47 of getting three of a kind. What started it all was the Dart mouth professor's problem in crap shooting: The caster rolls two dice and wins if (a)'1 the sum be 7 or 11; '-.(b) if the sum be 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 and if this same sum reappears before seven is ver seen. To obviate the odds against the caster, a dishonest caster employs two dice, one true and the other loaded so that a certain number always -appears at the top. What should this number be in order to give him the maximum advantage? irthdays January 15 Arey, John Vincent Frankel, Ernest ' .Hobbs, Nell Blair Hupham, Helen Evans James, Royal Domestic Jones, Martha Dabney McCants, Ruth Marie McCombs, Floyd Brown, Jr. Peabodyr George Lee Pickard, Margaret Johnson Roberts, Blanche Stronach, William Baron, Jr. January 16 Campbell, Daniel Wallace, Jr. J ordan, John Richard, Jr. Long, Charles Bradley Lovejoy, Gordon Williams McCIellan, Clifford Terrell Pollard, Mary Alyce Rogerson, Livingston Brewster Roundy, Richard Randall Smith, Ned Raeford Wilson, Stewart Leigh Besides Reliable Medicines at Economical ices, We Have Delicious Coffee Sun e-made Sandwiches 0 Soda:fountaih Specialties Stenn Ira Co. V" " : ' '-- C-.' : - .
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