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THE DAILY TAB HEEL SATURDAY, MAY 17. 194r PAGE TWO &e Batlp Car "J$zt The official newspaper ef 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. MiMtiaexTKo row hatiomai. wimthbw wt mnin , tQlt National Advertisbs Service, Inc. 1940 Member IV 1 Coilege "mbliibcn RepmenUtive Pbsociofred Cbne6fcrte Press ORVILLE CAMPBELL SYLVAN MEYER WM. W. BRUNER JOSEPH E. ZAYTOUN 4 20 Madison Ave New York. N. Y. Cuievo BcxToa lm Mum tm niaewco . Editor Managing Editor Business Manager Circulation Manager For This Issue: News: PAUL K0M1SARUK Sports: LEONARD LOBRED (Due to the large amount of interest in the war debate held re cently between Dr. E. E. Ericson of the English department and r t TVnnJhrvuzp nf the. rxilitical science devartment, tne uaily III . XJ . V . WW wwwm, - A Tar Heel has asked these two outstanding campus figures to write guest editorials. Today Dr. Ericson will express his views. They will be answered tomorrow by Dr. Woodhouse.) o A PROGRAM FOR AMERICA The word isolationist implies lack of concern for any country besides one's own. Those who oppose America's participation in the uresent war are not isolationists in that sense. Our sympathy coes out to the peoples of all warring or war-torn countries, be they Germans or English, Italians or Greeks. It is through no fault of theirs that they have been manipulated and misled into a war that has given them nothing so far except "blood, sweat, and tears. And whichever side wins, there will be no gain for the common people until each nation begins where it left off, with the problem of reconstruction. Only this time, there will be the debris of not one war but two. Hitler put down with a bloody hand all the forces that wanted a new deal for Germany. During those early days he had the applause and support of many politicians and industrialists wbn nnw avow him to be the world's greatest menace. The affairs of Britain are largely in the hands of a politician who once expressed a hope that an Adolf Hitler would arise among Englishmen if the country were ever faced with problems similar to those of post war Germany. America's defence program is largely in the hands of a big industrialist who once praised Hitler as "the twentieth century miracle." hj Such stern, ironical facts should make us pause and reflect. Each of us should ask, Is this war really a war to save democ racy, or is it a matter of one rising imperialism seeking to disestablish an older one founded on the same methods in the last two hundred years? If it is the latter, what stake has America in this war? Must we cast our lot with England or perish as a republic? Or can we keep out of the war, re-organize our domestic economy and our. international policy in such a way that we shall not only preserve ourselves but also afford an example to the other parts of the world? The answer to the last question is, We can, and in that proposal lies America's hope. The words of Washington and Jefferson about keeping out of Europe's affairs are still sound and timely. . The words of James Monroe as to America's vital concern in the West ern Hemisphere are still words of wisdom, if properly interpreted. Let us consider first, our domestic economy. The New Deal was, and is, a landmark m American history. Through it we have sought to do something about the one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill- clothed, and ill-fed. Reactionaries bucked the program, hired stooges used their poison-pens against it, but the American people approved it at the polls and hoped for better things under it. For all its shortcomings, it is an American program, carried out in the American way, by and for the American people. Now parts of the program have been suspended. Why? No out side forces have attacked the New Deal and told us to cease and desist. The attack came'from within. The same reactionaries, the same hired scurrilists, the same representatives of special privi lege saw their chance. in the European situation. "Through pre paredness," chuckled a scion of a Chicago leisure-class family, "we hope to get back everything we have lost under the New Deal!" That sinister hope has not yet- been fulfilled, but there are signs that its achievement is not impossible. The liberals in the Ad ministration, unlike the statesmen of Sweden, Turkey, and the Soviet Union (who, incidentally, are in a much more dangerous situ ation) have yielded to these unsocial reactionary forces. They have got their own kind of amortization plan, their own kind of tax laws, and have used the scoundrel's refuge of "patriotism" to gouge the government in various ways. Bitter opponents of the New Deal are now in the saddle. They use the war-scare to bring about what they could not accomplish in a time of peace ; namely, the scuttling of New Deal legislation. They dare even to suggest the electric chair for any worker going on strike in a defence industry. Mean while, the newspapers, the radio, the movies chiefly owned by large corporations having interlocking interests have turned their powerful guns on public opinion : to turn people against constructive social action and to stir up the war spirit. From a hundred stations they spew their hymns of hate to every corner of our land. If we are dopes as Lawrence Dennis claims we are they will succeed, and we shall have war and its attendant misery, with, possibly, a Fascist America as an aftermath. If we resist, we shall continue our social agencies and the fire work they have been doing, and we shall provide a national defence that consists not only of tanks and bombers but also of a happy and prosperous people who believe in their country and its leaders. Campus Keyboard (Dir0swirdl ZPtazzs:! By the Staff IMPORT ADVICE In the past columnists on the Daily Tar HEEL have taken it upon them selves to advise the fairer sex when they matriculate to Carolina for - a dance weekend. The present editorial staff feels that no individual is capable of dealing with such a prob lem, but it does feel there are cer tain things the "sweet young thing" should know. Yesterday afternoon 45 members of the staff gathered in the office, discussed the 'problem thor oughly, and decided the visitors should be advised on the following matter. Don't mention anything about Fi nals to your date, because he has al ready invited another girl down. . Try to avoid mentioning a dance you recently attended at Duke. ... Re member you might wish to be invited back again sometime. ... See all of the campus you can this morning. . You won't feel like it Sunday and anyway, it's right pretty in the spring. . . . The arboretum's fascinating col lection of dandelions isn't really ap predated at night. . . . Take a squint at Ledbetter-Pickard's window display. . . . But don't expect your escort to buy anything. . . . My goodness, gal! . . . Just having you down here purty- nigh busted him. Say Tony Pastor and his music are wonderful. . . . Now don't fail to do this! . . . Maybe you like Tommy Dorsey best, but if you know where your next invitation is coming from, vou better be pro-Pastor this week- ' end. ... Don't look at 1 the coeds with that oh-so-you've-blossomed-in - to-a-wall-flower look in your eyes. . Plenty of coeds will be there, and they're just as attractive as you are. , . Drink if must, but moderately. . This ain't Yale. ... However, if -a 1 you nave an escort wno is cneap enough to offer you nothing more than beer dash it in his face! NEW DEAL IS LANDMARK Have an understanding with your andlady about the business of com- 1 mg in tomorrow mormng. . . . ane will expect you to come tripping up ; the stairs not later than a.m. . . . So to keep -her from waiting up on you which she will probably not do anyway tell her, frinstance, that if you can get a ride you are going home after the dance. . . . Don't be surpris ed if it rains like the devil during the dance this evening. . . . Providence " . allows few Carolina G1MU11UUL. CASTLE go dance weekends to completely unmoist. So wear your rubbers and take your rain cape along just to play safe. . . As for Carolina after midnight, if you've already seen the moon look down on Gimghoul castle, you know what to expect. ... If not well, it's an experience you won't wanna miss. . . . As an after-prom hot spot, Har ry's is heartily recomniended to those not suffering from high blood pres sure. ... Is usually jammed but witn the right people under the table. . . . Please remember frats are limited on breakfast food. ... Go home! ACROSS 1 Proceeded through water 6 Excess of solar yeai over lunar year 10 Tendered money . 14 Tiny particle 15 Nest of bird of prey 16 Others 17 Street-car 18 South African town 19 Amorous took 20 Exquisite 72 -Drinking place 24 Hang out loosely 25 Oriental wizards 28- -Moslem woman of rank ipLt 29- -Found traces of 33 Identical 34 Luminous circles around sun 35 Harem sitting-room 36 Center of wheel 37 Automobile 38 Incentive 39 Took food . 40 Female humans 41 Locality 42 Decreased 44 Having shiny surface 45 Sibilant sound 46 Unfurnished apartment 47 -Expel from country 50 Intervening period 54 More than 55 Reads and corrects 57 Enthusiasm a8 Erase By LASS MORRIS 55 ANSWER ro FREVIOL'S PUZZLE AiNh-jElch iMNtSI IS MIA GAEL IF LIE M L InEr O G L Si L A MM E R0 C AID P GECT M A b, w a nd s , M A T O HbT1pB I j,Q N E, T RO bMG Jw k L U T MlJ A M5 nFeIA g TOY DlJCM AWR vrMli T) MhA E S ret" opR 5 0 A -E 555, MiOlMlBlNmi ITIV 59 -Ceremonies 60 Crust of cheese 61 Worthless remnant 62 Poor-looking 63 Opposing votes DOWN 1 Location 2 Unfermented beer 3 Western State 4 Circassian slave 5 Artist's stands 6 Part of flower 1 Sea in rurkestan a Spanish epic Maker of will 10 Pertaining to nia region 11 In direction of wind 12 River rising is Bohemia 13 Former Secretary of War 21 Third largest Italian city 23 Grows old 25 Fruit-like vegetable 26 Over-used 27 Cause happiness 2 Yields to - 29 Reckoned 30 Semiprecious stone 31 Cause 32 Took a chance 34 Residences 37 Terrible giants 38 Slovenly woman 40 Obstruction in stream 41 Arrangement 43 Banks v 44 Having bard, fixed look 4 Wined and dined 47 Extinct bird 48 Always 49 Hide of fur animal 60 Tiny insect SI Part of nip-bone pU S3 Numerous S3 Ceases 56 End existence v h. k h I I? jt 17 IS 19 I Ito in . Iix I13 i rr 7" ia 7 2o" 11 " 7 33" ' 55 77?&- ZZ 22- :22- - !! II W " 72 " &4 : 57" : 53 59 " I I ' I I I M y say By Elsie Lyon FOR MAY DAY What we v need is some Sound and Fury showmanship injected into the annual May Day celebration. A com bination of a Billy Rose spectacle and a Broadway musical would make the celebration one of the highlights of tie year, rather than a program sand wiched in between spring dances. Think of it the presentation of a previously unannounced Queen and court, the intersorority and interfrat ternity sings, and the handing out of coed awards under a starlight May sky A combination of the sing and the presentation of the Queen would make a program of double sig. nificance and an evening comparable to a Sound and Fury show. Genie Loaring-Clark did a grand job two weeks ago on the annual May Day program. In addition to a very effective and beautiful presen tation of the Queen, there was a pro gram of Greek, old English and folk dances. However, it struck many in the audi, ence that the Valkyries felt they had to make a program for only one pur pose, providing for a' five-minute pres entation of the Queen and her court With all the trouble and expense in curred by the celebration, it was dis appointing to see so few students in the audience, although the Forest the atre was crowded with townspeople and children. On Other Campuses From Coast To Coast If you're out of bed by 2 o'clock this afternoon, you might enjoy the lacrosse meet with the Cherokee Indians. . . . Village drug stores will send out Bromo-Seltzers for a nominal fee. . . . If you're planning to ride the bus back and didn't buy a round-trip ticket, you b'etter get a one-way to day in order to avoid the world's big gest push Sunday afternoon. ... If you're going by automobile be care ful! . . . And above all be a good girl like mom always was. BIGH HEELS AND KISSES This sentimental scrap from Mother's Day should be an ideal introduction to this week's amalgamation of campus color: ; Don't throw stones at your mother: , She never threw stones at you. from an old Scottish hymn. A recent survey at the University of Michigan reveals that the war situa tion has not affected seriously the enrollment in the German department. The decline has only been about five per cent over last year's enrollment. Ham and Jam of Staunton have arrived at the conclusion that high heels were invented by a coed who was kissed on the forehead. "A team of eagle-eyed coed sharpshooters from Texas State Teachers col lege recently defeated the he-man nfle team of Texas A. and M., the largest military college in the nation." Gleanings. KAY KYSER A Butler lad recently joined the ranks of those shy comic strip men who at a moment's notice shed their appearance of impotence and soar away to amazing feats of Herculean strength. At an 8 o'clock philosophy class, the student, leaning "back too hard in a second-row chair managed to ;(subtly) rip the chair up from its bolts; this action precipitating said young man into lap of girl next to him, who woke up with unmuffled screech I to the world at large. "His equilibrium eventually regained, the lad composed himself and con tinued his inspection of Locke's theories of .sense-perception and experience as a basis for knowledge." MORE HARD WORK Next week, the Valkyries will spon sor an intersorority and interfrater nity sing- f or-which the groups have been practicing for many weeks. At the conclusion of the program, two cups will be awarded to the best fra ternity and sorority. This will no doubt draw a larger crowd, both of students and towns people and there will be a spirit of competition about the evening which will liven up the whole program. It seems as if this duplication of effort would be profitably eliminated by a combination of the two programs. QUEEN SECRET Imagine one program comMmng the sing and presentation of the Queen. It might be, a good idea to keep the identity of the Queen and her court secret until the actual presentation, thus adding suspense to the program This would eliminate the necessity of each girl spending $22 on a dress she will probably never wear again. There might be some coeds elected on whom this expense would work a hard ship. Dresses for 'the occasion could be sewed up quite inexpensively yet they would look quite lovely in the evening. Ran across this caustic remark in "Coed Comment" from the Butler Col legian: "Maybe students at the University of North Carolina will be dancing to the music of a Board of Directors band yet. Kay Kyser was just elected vice-president. ..." ; Evening in Paris is by far the favorite eau de cologne and perfume among the coeds of Kent State, a recent survey by the Kent Stater reveals. Old Spice was next most popular with Tweed, Apple Blossom, Lilac, Lucien Le long's Carefree, Opening Night, Yankee Clover, Mais Oui, and Blue Grass following. From Gleanings. ' Vying with Genie Loaring-Clark's "L'AiIegro"-inspired creation, May Day at Florida State college for women had a "Fantasia" theme' with elephants, ostriches, bunnies, and elves romping on the green. Coed Comment. SUPPORT IN PEACE TIME As to foreign policy, if we really want democracy, we must sup port it in peace times, wherever we find it. Our support of Franco in Spain is a bad smell. Our underhanded fomenting of the Alma- zan revolution, in Mexico was undoubtedly the work of American business interests standing to lose under a Mexican New Deal. Our record of furnishing Japan with motor fuel and machinery while weep ing crocodile tears over China's suffering is a tragic page of na tional duplicity. , We must not repeat these blunders in South and Central America. The Latin-Americans must certainly resent control by anybody, Germans, Italians, British, or Americans. Lindbergh's committee announces as one of its tenets that we cannot tolerate any gov ernment in the Western Hemisphere unfriendly to the United States. Now in the past friendly has too often meant complete subservience to control by American corporations; unfriendly t the insistence of these nations on conducting their affairs like a free people. If this puts the matter too strong, ask yourself these ques tions: Do we really care what kind of government' any nation to the South has, so long as it "plays ball" with our financial interests ? Will we countenance it, if it insists on returning its national re sources to its people? Do we really want civil liberties and eco nomic security for these people? Or is our concern wholly about trade and money-making? " Here, then, is a program for America: continue our defence measures, with equal sacrifices from labor and capital; reserve that defence until such time as we are attacked, and meanwhile stop taking provocative steps toward other nations ; break the tie-up between big money and politics and rid the country of "bossism"; come clean on our disgraceful and undemocratic attitude toward. our aliens, our Mexican-Americans, and our Negroes ; continue our work toward better housing, health, and education and improved living conditions. Outside of our own land, foster a real Good Neighbor policy that will assist our weaker neighbors in achieving for their peoples what we expect to do for our own. This is 'Amer- ica s war, and a war we cannot lose. Medical Fraternity Initiates Members The Alpha Epsilon Delta pre-medi cal fraternities held its annual initia tion of new members Tuesday night followed by a banquet at the Carolina The Queen would be presented at the beginning of the program, and' the sing staged for her entertain ment. During intermission, various co ed awards might well be made, such as the announcement of the new members of the Valkyries. The sing itself would acquire added importance. At other schools, the an nual sings are taken seriously and the sorority or fraternity which can dis play a trophy cup has a real taking point during rushing. Held outside, on the library steps or in the Forest theater, on a beautfiul May night, the coeds in white dresses, men in white coats, singing their fra ternity songs, would make a program of which any Sound and Furyite would be proud. Inn at which Dr. I. H. Manning, for mer Dean of the Medical School, was feature speaker. The new members are: Joe Demeri, Bill Peete, Bill Brown, George Penick, Hugh Dortch,. Lindsay Campbell, D. H. Winchester,. Ike Taylor, Bob McNaughton, and. Dunkan Walker. AFTER THE BALL . IS OVER" STOP IN AND LET US GIVE YOU A NEW START WITH OUR DELICIOUS FOOD Next to the Post Office l 4 A J. X V
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