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SATURDAY, APfllL 5, 39.47 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR The official newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the UniTersity 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. 'NPWCKNTtO POM MATtOMAt. OVMTHWa T ,n,n ' . . 1Q, . National Adyerdsing Serrice, Ina Pbsocided Gc&efyde Press AZO MAD:" Av. ITl ' Don Bishop Chaeles Baesett Wm. W. Bkvneb Joseph E. Zaytoxjn Associate Editor: Bill Snider. Editorial Board: Louis Harris, Simons Roof, George, Simpson, Orrille Campbell. Columnists: Martha Clampitt, Barnaby Conrad. t Feature Board: Jim McEwen, Shirley Hobbs, Marion Lippincott, Jo An doe. City Editors: Fred Cazel, Rush Hamrick. Wdjz Editor: Ed Rollins. Night Editors: Dick Young, Sylvan Meyer, Bob Hoke. Assistants: Bruce Snyder,' Baxter McNeer, G. C. McClure, Buck Timber lake. Reporters: Bucky Harward, Philip Carden, Ransom Austin, Mary Cald well, Grady Reagan, Ernest Frankel, Paul Komisaruk, Elsie Lyon, Vivian Gillespie, Larry Dale, Grace Rutledge, Bill Webb. Staff Photographer: Jack Mitchell. ' Sports Editor: Leonard Lobred. 1 Night Sports Editors: Harry Hollingsworth, Ernie Fraakel, Paul Ko misaruk. Sports Reporters: Ben Snyder, Abby Cohen, Earle Hellen, Steve Reiss. Local Advertising Managers: Bill Schwartz, Morty Ulman. Durham Representatives: Bill Stanback, Jack Dube. Local Assistants: Bill Stanback, Ditzi Buice, Jimmy Norris, Marvin Rosen, Farris Stout, Robert Bettmann. Collections: Morty Golby, Mary Bowen, Elinor Elliott, Millicent Mc- Kendry, Rose Lefkowitz, Zena Schwartz. Office Manager: Jack Holland. Office Assistant: Sarah Nathan. Circulation Office Staff: Henry For Thi News: SYLVAN MEYER Student Ideas Sound If members of the faculty will follow the two recom mendations made by Dave Morrison's student committee on attendance regulations on Thursday there is reason to believe that the problem of class attendance will be re duced to a minimum in the fu ture. One recommendation ad-, located that the first day of classes be made significant enough by instructors that students will realize the need for attendance. The present monetary penalty for missing these first classes, ineffective for the past two years, should be replaced by some other penalty possibly the count ing of a double-cut : it was suggested by the committee." It would be a simple matter for any professor on the open ing day to announce how many cuts he will allow, and what the penalty will be if a stu dent goes over the limit. Some professors do this now, but ' after they announce how many cuts will be allowed they do nothing if a student has a number of excessive absences. The faculty members should certainly abide by a rule which they make themselves. There is need to change the monetary penalty for first-day class cuts. Some students are willing and able to pay a small amount if it will enable them, to stay at home an extra day or two. Still there are other students who have valid ex cuses for cutting classes, yet "they cannot afford to stay at home because of the extra cost. Some form of punish ment that will treat both classes alike would be more adaptable. Many, colleges and universities give students double cuts for missing classes before and after the holidays. This, however, has not proved to be a satisfactory arrange ment. If the student can of fer no excuse for failing to re turn on time, one possible rule would be to place him on class probation. If this is done, he will think twice before cutting. Morrison's committee termed the English depart ment's rule, that weekend cuts be counted double, as "discip linary and unfair." The stu dent does not get double value 2?dttr ' . Managing Editor Bushiest Manager Circulation Manager Zaytoun, Joe Schwartz, Jules Varady. Issue: Sports: PAUL KOMISARUK out of a weekend class, so why should a double cut be charged against him if he misses it ? Now, a student can leave on Monday afternoon, miss English classes Tuesday and Thursday, and receive the same treatment as if he had cut a single Saturday class. This is not fair to the English department nor to the student O. C. Time to Wake Up The first of the annual Spring elections will roll around Tuesday, when the 'coeds dust . off their back slapping paraphernalia and elect their Woman's associa tion officers for the coming year. What goes on behind the locked doors of the women's dormitories will never be known by the male popula-. tion, but one can rest assured that political maneuvers have been carried on in both unique and devious means. The . old political wheels of fortune are spinning away, and the worn- en portion of our student body will determine where the little disc will point when the smoke clears. Mainly through the efforts of Daily Tar Heel columnist Martha Clampitt we have heard a lot of complaints about the way women's government has been run on the campus. As is the case most-of ten, the answer to all good government lies with the coeds them-, selves. It takes an alert wom en's student body to make for a competent women's govern ment. . Election-time is just about as good as any for coeds to turn over a new leaf and make their government a live, work ing unit of student govern- , ment on this campus. If in- . terest has been at a low ebb all year, we are willing to forget it now. The important thing is that the girls themselves take a new spirit, go out and elect the girl they sincerely believe is best for the office. Bat women students must keep up the interest that is, aroused through elections. They have to maintain the awareness and alertness in what the Women's council and Association does all through A Very Frank Answer To Admiral Stirling "Secretary of State Hull has said we are not neutral, so why not be belligerent? What are we afraid of ?" Admiral Yates Stirling, Jr., asked Thursday in an interview with a reporter from The Daily lilini. WHAT ARE WE AFRAID OF, ADMIRAL STIRLING? Well, frankly, plenty! But let's get it straight at the outset that we're not afraid to die. Young sters our age aren't, you know. We haven't lived long enough to be afraid of death for ourselves or to fear for the consequences of our death on others. We've nobody dependent upon us yet. No wives. No-children. Just par ents; and most of them have kids younger 'than we are to console them,; if this war you're drumming up does for us. So let's get that straight, Admiral. It's not death of which we are afraid. Most of us don't know enough about death to be afraid of it yet. If we did, we'd probably want to have everyone lynched who's trying to promote a slug in the belly for us. Like the men who really know about death. The men who saw death at close range in the 1914-1918 murdering match. The men who came back to write books and poems exposing the old lies about the beauty of dying on the field of battle. The men who came back and lie in veterans' hospitals learning to be .philosophical about life because it won't let them die. , Danger of Mass-Mindedness . After alL Admiral, death really isn't so much more terrifying than life, when you really think about it. Didn't some Greek or other claim that death is better than life, but that best of all is not to have been born? What we're afraid of, Admiral, is that the Greek who thought that one up would have been pretty close to right if you fellows who are eager to fight a war have your way. Not that we don't think you're sincere in advocating what you think is best for the country, but we think life would be rather rotten for a long, long time if this country got into war. Admiral, we think that the real danger to America lies mo more in the chance of invasion than in the possibility that men who. think like you do should have the determining of her destiny. Men who've thought in terms of battleships and firepower and squadrons and flotillas and fleets and regi ments and battalions and divisions and army corps and armies for so long that they've forgotten how to think !of the individual man who compose those mass units. If we get into a war, just as sure as we're writing this, you fellows with mass-minds are going to be the bosses. Same Old Story ' And if that happens, it'll be the same old story. Individuals' and individual rights will be sacrificed to the efficiency of the mass units with which modern wars are fought. It will set our civilization back a lot, Admiral. Intolerance, coercion, work-or-fight, red-baiting, mass hysteria, hatred, violence, injustice, negation of all the things this country's idealized. Remember what happened at home during and just after the last war? People smashed the windows of good Americans who came over from Ger many looking for a little liberty, people who believed that stuff Fourth of July orators spout about America being the land of the free and the home of the brave. The Ku Klux Klan put on dirty white night shirts, burned" fiery crosses in the hills, preached' that all Negroes, Jews, and Catholics were enemies of America and enforced its preaching with lengths of rub ber hose. The post office department put the clamps on anything that had the taint of liberalism about it, and Atty. Gen. Palmer hunted for witches. We Believe in Peace ' Well, Admiral, we're just young. enough to believe that stuff the Fourth of July orators spout about liberty and freedom and democracy. We know what a beating that stuff took during and after the first World War, and we've heard about the downright rotten intellectual and moral letdown that ushered in the Twenties.' We're convinced that no good came of Ameri can participation in the 1914-1918 slaughter, and we don't want to get into the same kind of mess again. , ; You see, Admiral, the thing we're afraid of is that American participation in another war would result in permanent impairment of all the values and ideals of American civilization. That- civilization's not perfect by a long shot, of course, but we think it's a lot better than anything that would come out of this war. We're so sure that peace is the best thing for America that we're willing to pay a pretty high price for it. We're willing to arm Great Britain so that the English can keep the war in Europe and Africa where it belongs. We're willing to pay defense taxes on practically everything we buy. We're ' willing to accept conscription and learn to fight, in case we do get in a jam. . " . ' We're willing to do just about anything short of war, Admiral, because we think that only in the preservation-of peace is there a chance for the preservation of the ideals and values that make America worth living for. The Daily Illini. - NEWS BRIEFS (Continued from first page) belligerency and support of Iraq's 1930 alliance with Britain, British press dispatches said today. The army coup was carried out Thursday, deposing the royal regent, Prince Abdul Illah, on "grounds of treason" and forcing him to flee, it was said. - British Bombers-Fire Key Albanian Base BUDAPEST, April 4 The Athens radio reported tonight that British bombing planes had set fire to Berat, Italy's key base in central Albania and outpost guarding the approach to Tirana, the capital. British Naval Force Sails from Gibraltar LALINEA, Spain, April 4 A Brit ish naval force, including three 'air craft carriers and a large troop ship loaded with colonial Free French forces, sailed from Gibraltar into the Mediterranean late today, the Spanish agency reported. WASHINGTON, April 4 President Roosevelt today said he had released $500,000,000 in army and navy stocks to Great Britain and Greece and re vealed that tlu country soon may transport materials to the Balkan and , Middle Eastern fronts by way of the Red Sea. I - . ISTANBUL, April 4 Thousands of troops from the classes of 1910 and 1911 rushed from Istanbul tonight to the year. If enough facts are not known, then they should find out about them demand - to find ou about them. But, t bolster the Turkish army drawn up along the Bulgarian and Greek fron tiers as British experts in mechanical warfare . laid plans for defense of European Turkey. . Well-informed sources believed Tur key would adhere to her, policy of : fighting only if attacked, but mili tary preparations were be'ing' rushed and hints in the authoritative press that the ticklish Balkan situation may explode in a manner, not anticipated by Germany. LONDON, April 4 Two crack de stroyers of Italy's entrapped naval forces in the Red Sea have been scuttled by their crews in the Italian flight from Eritrea and the coast of Benito Mussolini's crumbling. East African empire, the admiralty an-; nounced tonight. . V . ' WASHINGTON, April 4-President Roosevelt today threatened drastic federal action to reopen the strike bound Allis-Chalmers plant, at Mil waukee unless work is resumed volun tarily soon. He told -his press conference the Allis-Chalmers deadlock: is really a very bad situation and that something has to be done about it. WASHINGTON, April 4 The War, Navy, and Interior departments have agreed to a proposal to spend $50, 000,000 on defense of the Philippines, the money to be appropriated . .from funds owed to the island government, it was disclosed tonight. LONDON, April 5 (Saturday) Western" England was attacked by German raiders in' bright moonlight above all, it is the duty of every coed to make an effort to learn and to want to learn how she helps govern herself. L.H. Quadrangle Baseball Games Menace Others' Happiness Certain gentlemen with the elixir of bounding youth no doubt cours ing their veins and calling up vague instincts of remote quadruped an- -cestors have taken it into their young iieads to practice the great ... . and noble game of, baseball in the semi-quadrangle whkh ha.s for two of its sides the new dormitories. Now this is undoubtedly a great game, and no one could possibly ob ject to these young men enjoying their exercise were it not for one or two facts which we shall try to elucidate upon. We wish to estab lish: that it is interfering with the 1 pursuit of happiness of certain in dividuals for this practice to go on. Take the item of window lights. In one afternoon three panes were smashed to smithereens by the rather simple process of just throw ing a ball through them. Another afternoon two more were demol ished, and on still another occasion the door glass went the way of all earth panes. Now these things are costly, and every one which . is STREIT SPEAKS (Continued from first page) . different governments united in fed eral union, with states retaining their 'rights and differences, Streit believes the will to peace of the human race will not find itself continually de- stroyed in world war. Clarence Streit began his career as a public land surveyor in Montana and Alaska. At the beginning of the first World War he volunteered, serv ing first as a private and later in the intelligence" service After the armis tice he was assigned to the archives division of the American peace mis sion at Versailles. Later he returned . xto Montana state university and com pleted his studies winning a Rhodes scholarship which took him to Oxford. . Later .while studying at the Sorbonne he met and married a French school mate, Jeanne Def ranee. An intensive 10-year study of the League; of Na tions gave him the basic idea for ."Union Now," which was rewritten four times before its final publica- last night -and early today for the second consecutive night after a day " in which RAF fighters carried their . offensive to the German-occupied sec tion of France and Belgium.. NOW PLAYING from the raider's crutches in a surging saga of men who mas ter torpedo torn seas! EPIC OF EXCITEMENT mm Novelty News j PICK When Casstdy ride oefcon trcilf A Paramount Picture wife I - I 8 v i) I Also ( broken comes out of the gerer-1 damage fee. Might we not there fore, reason from this that the rr, who breaks a glass .through ror carelessness is, to say the lea very inconsiderate of his feik-v citizens here in the University Might we not go still further ar.j "say that the man who thus destrov property in such a time as thi? committing an act of vaijdaiisr:. which is deserving of the scorn ci hi fellows. Perhaps this is too strong, " but it somehow strikes us as sent thing worthy of a citizen of :h campus; this destruction of r;or- erty. " . . -- And not ony that, but irci.gir.fr the feelings and relations of the r.a?: who with , lights out and sure? low goes to don his pink pajamas only to find seat of same brim full of broken glass. Consider it, Gent, and the next time you feel a? though you simply must play ball remember we have athletic field;, here for that purpose. Tar Heel, .May 22, 1920. Collectors To Meet All members of the collections -taff of the Daily Tar Heel please rejvort at the business office this morning at 10:30. It is very important that every one come by. tion. Eagerly gobbled , up for publi cation last month was his newest vc' ume, "Union Now With Britain." APRIL 10th and 11th ROBOT CUIIMINGS CHARLES COBUW Etfmnl Gwiiui Sprint Eyipgtw ' S. Z. SakaR Witilaa Deanrest . Distributed by RKO RADIO TOPPER'S BACK GIRL TROUBLE Hal Roach presents 0 win. 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