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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
'SUNDAY; JUNE 1, i94l
Kht Batlp Kux Heel
The ciSdal newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the University
cf North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is printed daily except Mondays,
and the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Holidays. Entered as second
elass matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C under act of March 3,
1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the college year. .
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1940
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1941
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ORVTLLE CAMPBELL
SYLVAN MEYER
W1L W. BRUNER
JOSEPH E. ZAYTOUN
" Editor
Managing Editor
Business Manager
Circulation Manager
Associate Editor: Louis Harris. - e-
Editorial Board: Bill Snider, Bucky Harward, Simons Roof, George Simp
son, Mac Norwood, Henry Moll, Bill See man. -
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Feature Board: Jim McEwen, Shirley Hobbs, Marion Lappmcott, Jo Andoe,
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Reporters: Grady Reagan, Paul Komisaruk, Ernie Frankel, Vivian Gilles
pie, Larry Dale, Billy Webb, uarey nayes, ueorge aiamnuer, sm Laamnan,
Grace Kutledge, Jimmy vvaiiace.
Photographers: Jack Mitchell, Hugh Morton.
Sports Editor: Harry Hollingsworth. "'"' , m. - , ,
Night Sports Editors: Earle Hellen, Baxter McNeer, Buck Timberlake.
Sports Reporters: Ben Snyder, Abby . Cohen, Bill Woestendiek, Fred Mc
Coy, Mannie Krulwich.
As3't. Business Manager: Bill Schwartz.
Local Advertising Manager: Bill Stanback.
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Local Assistants: Jimmy Norris, Bob Bettman, Marvin Rosen, tarns
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Collections: Elinor Elliott, Millicent McKendry.
Office Assistant: Sarah Nathan.
Office Manager: Jack Holland.
CisCULATION Office Staef: Henry Zaytoun, Joe Schwartz, Jules Varady.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
to say it." Voltaire. '
o When War Comes
Tucked away on the shelves of the library is a row of blue-bound
volumes volumes that tell vividly, tragically just what happens
when war comes to a, university.
They are old bound editions of The Daily Tar Heel the Tar
Heel of 1914, of 1917.
Twentv-three vears have vellowed the pages, made them al
most fragile, given them a nearmustiness. But for all their age,
those pages tell a story that no history book could tell and about
history. '
Whether it be the yellowness orthe fragility or the mustiness,
they give one a feeling of depression, of tragic hopelessness that
there must be something so overwhelmingly pernicious and com
pelling about war that saneness and common sense just can't stand
against it.
Twenty-three years ago. There were students here at Chapel
Hill, students just as likeable and as fun-loving and as earnest as
there are now. They didn't think of war, didn't imagine it pos
sible. ....... . ... .. t " r 5 ' ; '
The Tar Heels of those days carry a tragic, a mute tale of little
events that began pyramiding one upon another until the'pile be
came too big' and finally crumpled. And students and sane life
crumpled with it. - " ;
Twenty-three years later. Chapel Hill has not changed greatly.
Perhaps there is more freedom of thought and freedom of speech,
but basic ideas are about the same. The college youth of 1941has
no desire to fight. He wants a college education, an education that
will help him make a name for himself .
But the college youth today is not afraid. He is ready to fight
if necessary. Before he fights, though, he would like for someone
to tell him what he is fighting for. And the enemy? Who are
they? Why are they?
We remember, two years ago when England went to war against
the Germans, the battle cry was "fight fascism", .and fight
Campus
Keyboard
By the Staff
This is my last spring here. As I
walk the campus these days, a hos
oi sweet, poignant memories come
flooding back to me, and my throat is
full, and a tender smile trembles on
my lips. It has been a full life here
at the University . . . these have been
POIGNANT large yeaf : . d
. now as my brief stay
111U1U15 here draws tenderly,
poignantly to a close ... I am steeped
in memories, in recollections of things
dear. There are things I will hold to
me always. With each friendly old
10:30 chat, with each familiar foot
path, with each friendly walk through
the arboretum, with each football
game especially those two Duke vie
tories I have a poignant, sweet asso
ciation.
I stroll down the pleasant shade
flecked walks of the campus,' a smile
flickering on and off my face as the
eager, laughing coeds surge down on
me from the Library steps.
I pick up my books and pass on
down the walk toward the stadium.
I pass the beautiful bell tower. The
walk is dirty, but I love every inch
Yrcvr a xr TUT? of it. Kenan greets
BEAUTIFUL j sprawi n a boyish
heap in the deep green grass on the
football field. Memories come flood
ing back. ...
There was the time Russ playfully
filled my egg sandwiches with old
razor blades, ituss ana . l laugnea
about that many times. We grew to
know each other well in those days
afterwards.:
There was that : laughing, sun
freckled afternoon when Carolina de
bated Duke, 6 to 3. There was May
Frolics, Finals, Fall Germans, and
Mid-Winters, There were heartaches,
but for every heartache there was a
dozen smiles.
' 'nazism."
Nazism? Fascism? We believe they have already won their
battle. The fight now is not over them. The fight now is over
empire. Who will rule the world? The Germans? The British?
Full of meaning and significance is this year of 1941, 23 years
later, are the files of this year. They will eventually grow old and
yellow too. Perhaps they will carry a story, not of tragedy, but
of sanity. We hope some day someone will skim over their pages
and see how another generation, the class of '41, learned a lesson Ellens.
from those vellowed old volumes of 1917. My throat is full, and one salty tear
I stretch languidly and roll over,
and the deep cool of the grass makes
me think of the girl Ellen. Idly I
think of her. A fleeting, tender smile
flick'ers evanescently across my face
ELLEN caim ways Euen 0f
the unruffled poise. Ellen, that poker-
face. When Ellen came to me in my
sophomore year, life took on a new
significance. I bought shoes and went
for long walks with Ellen. I bought
a pair of trunks and went for long
swims with Ellen. We broke up when
she wanted me to buy a car and go for
long rides with her. j
Those brief days were utterly
poignant, and always the name Ellen
will bring a sweet hurt.
Four years of laughter and tears
. . . four fleeting years . . . and now,
for me, they are drawing to a close.
ttwvo att Soon the Library doors
r7TT will swing idly in
OVi-K tne vagrant summer
breeze. The Journalism windows will
be closed, and the blue haze will be
done, the flowers will bloom again
heedlessly.
Another year there will be other
students, other football teams, other
The ; 700 Seniors May Recall
The Bays Back in '3? lWhen
800 Frosh Entered
To Set New Record
Most of the 700-odd seniors who will
graduate here on June 10 came to
Carolina with a record class of 830
freshmen four years ago, in the fall
of 1937.
That was the year the University hit
a new record enrollment 3,002 regis
tered by the second day of school as
officials expected the figures to . pass
the 3,200 mark.
T A 1 1 ' 1
international complications pre
vented Leon Trotsky, Russian revolu
tionist, from speaking on the campus
under the auspices of the Carolina
Political union.
Christian Siewers of Winston-Salem
was elected president of the freshman
class.
The student body by a vote of 490
to 342 opposed Roosevelt running for
a third term. Last year the student
body, by an even larger majority, fa
vored a third term.
Frank Dailey and his famous or
chestra played for the , annual Fall
German set. - - ' .
The football team did the unexpect
ed and defeated Duke 14-to-6 as
Handy Andy Bershak, Crowell Little
and Tom Burnette led the way. Ber
shak made several ail-American teams,
including NEA and Associated Press.
Proff Koch, the University's most
'amous Playmaker, gave his 148th
reading of Charles Dickens' "Christ
mas Carol" in Memorial hall.
Graham Plan ; was introduced but
not passed.
Will Osborne and his "-' orchestra
played for Mid-Winters.
Jim Joyner defeated Bud Huson for
president of the student body.
After two years of work and 10
years of planning , ZOO University
alumni, officials, and student leaders
brmally dedicated the new $650,000
gymnasium and swimming pool.
UP won 19 campus offices.
Kay Kyser, famous alumnus, and
his orchestra played, for May Frolics.
aul Whiteman and Alumnus Hal
Kemp played for the German club
finals.
Up-swept hairdos came in on. a sud
den rush of popularity, but soon went
out again. Coeds began wearing
"sloppy joes" and saddle shoes were
more in demand than they had ever
been.
There was little talk of the United
States going to war. There was less
talk of the class of 1937 facing grad
uation and service with Uncle Sam.
It was a grand year1 1937. A year
that 700 seniors wish they could see
once again.
.Letters To
litor
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Publication
(Letters must be typed. Thc$9
over S00 words long are subject to
cutting or omission.)
eview
To the Editor:
Once upon a time, there were two
college newspapers. The first alavs.
complained about social rooms, stu
dent government, and things like the
A Most Important Message
i (In the Washington Post, Columnist Bill Cunningham recently
printed an article which we feel touches a problem so' close to us
that its message should be reprinted in our last issue. Limited space
prohibits our bringing you this column in full, but we have tried to
give the most important excerpts therefrom.)
"The subject of war, as a national issue and a personal problem,
after smoldering sullenly or self-consciously on the typical Ameri
can college campus for a year, is now breaking into red and roar
ing flame. The college year is racing toward its finale. It's 'Goodby
Mr. Chips' for the senior class. The elms and ivy are already more
of the past than any part of the present, and are none of the
future at all.
"An older man hesitates to mix into any of this, not that he's
unsure of his feelings, but because he remembers how vividly he
resented a lot of free advice from those physically unliable when
he faced the same crisis as a collegian a quarter century ago. War
is the problem, the hazard, the'only curse of the young.
"My word is to those . . . kids, those too young yet, or uncalled
yet, but who also on those college campuses yet, upset, bewildered
and excited, no doubt, by. all this wild debate.
"That word is, finish the job at hand, which means your col
lege education, if possible. And don't give it a lick and a promise.
Stay there and really punch. Come back next year and go as far
as you can. Your duty to your country is fulfilled when you
register and stand ready to go, if and when you're called.
"Nobody has done enough thinking yet about what comes after
the war. Maybe that's premature when we still haven't got into
one and, maybe by God's grace and some miracle, we may avoid
that eventful fate. But the world, and this Nation, is going to
need intelligence for that handling. If you have the chance to
bring it some, that will be the greatest service of all. Finish your
job and finish it well. If the bridge comes up, cross it when it's
dead in your path, but don't let wild words toss you in the meantime."
finds its way to my lips.
Rare Trees Grown In
Oberlin Greenhouse
OBERLIN, O. (ACP) Safe from
bombs and invaders, 37 trees are thriv
ing in a greenhouse here, soon to be
transplanted into the Hall arboretum
of Oberlin college.
According to L. S. Ries, superinten
dent of buildings and grounds for
Oberlin, his department examined
nursery catalogs for three years look
ing for certain species of North Amer
ican trees. Last fall ten of the miss
ing species were located in a nursery
at Winchester, England. The order
TAR AN FEATHERS
By Martha LeFevre
"In vears to come we may think, back ! m.. - a aia v v.x
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To school before our graduation. some space to world affairs, beca.si
Ana rue tne learning tnai we iac . . . it fa at during these npvt
t :i t :xi -1- J a: I ' -i
lxiuerai wiuioui me euuiwu. vmt-. srvinl rnnms atwI eto,
Bill Seeman has tied the last ribbon ernment will probably be pushed intA
on his graduation present to tne sen-j the background by a struggle, whk --
ivr- a-nri Via- (nvon tliom in Vl l 2 fi-pst: I : . 4- .J-JJ- 4-T -f x .
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try as a l ar An' jp eatners eaitor, ernment for a longr time to come
something to think bade on before So, one day, the first newsT.
trradnatinn.' Tt "doesn't enve an educa-!--;
o o 12am nit -vvaava a iuu at c Jr TVv
tion, but it s liberal. small to attempt such thines. Ynr
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He gives full credit to Hunt Hobbs Jean do nothing to change the world.''
whose acrostic poems cleverly describe j Thereupon the second newspaper re-
the pictures of Carolina coeds taken j plied: "In times of crisis, many peo
by Hugh Morton. Hobbs is introduced pie say We are insignificant, rhat
as poet laureate of the publication as jean we do? and they settle down t
well as contributor oi ideas, ana nis a period oi lethargy and -wishful
four-line ditties about a liberal educa- thinking, while "London's burning--
tion deserve the two pages given them and with it, all that you and I stand
and supply the answer to why students for. 4 We must have faith in order to
go to some of the classes they sign succeed, and if you and all your other
up for. ; I little brothers join me, our small
The editor has snatched feathers fort will become a big effort, and this
from here and there, including every- big effort will help to determine
thing from a treatise on Sanford Stein whether, during the next hundred
stuffing the ballot box of the woman's years, all of us will be ignominiously
honor council, to a presentation of a suppressed, or whether we may again
new slant on democracy's deienders. give more prominence to "personal
Few of the facts he gives his readers j problems," which, however important
are new, but at least, they are the! they might normally be, are some
kind of facts worth recalling in years J times pvershadowed by bigger things."
to come. i I And the second newsnaner. rmifp
Hugh Morton has taken photo- exhausted after its long speech, look
graphs of girls sitting in trees, wad- ed expectantly at its brother. But he
ing in Hogan's lake and lying on the had suddenly disappeared. He was so
ground. Jack Fields has taken pic- busy improving dormitories that he
tures of more girls. If the magazine I could not spare the time to listen to
is good for nothing else, it could be such strange suggestions.
cut up and used to decorate the walls J Or could he?
of some of the boys' rooms. John L. Clive
Randy Mebane represents the coed j
population in raking the Carolina 'gen- j shotgun, so he wrote a poem about it.
tlemen across the coals, and doesn't j Another contributor from the English
spare the punches. Sylvan Meyer an- department, E. E. Ericson, wrote a
swers her, describing the Carolina j poem because he was bothered by a
coed metamorphosis, and ends up by I fly.
saying there will be 267 imports a$ Orville Campbell has written a sa-
Finals, which proves Randy is prob- tirical letter from Fort Bragg which
ably right when she says the coed is j might amuse the prospective privates,
just a strange interlude between but certainly won't make their plans
dances. V . I for the future seem any brighter.
Editor Seeman has prevailed upon) The dirty old joke department las
several members of the faculty to con- some jokes that are perhaps s Ut-
tribute to " his magazine." John All-j tie more soiled than usual, but they're
cott of the art 'department stopped j funny. A page of cartoons by Clyde
mixing paints long enough to scram- Stallings looks into the future to show
ble some eggs and write the Tar An' I the graduates what they'll be doing
Feathers' readers how to do it. Ray- four years from now. ; Jabie Heyward
mond Adams of the English depart-land Elsie Lyon, who takes Helen
ment was attracted by a West Vir-1 Plyler's place for this issue, tell in
ginia newspaper account of a woman J the usual way what Jane and Joe will
and her five children escaping from a j wear, this summer.
burning house with two sheets and a I Editor Seeman's first try is clever,
funny and even interesting. If this
issue is an exanmle. Tar An' Feathers
placed October 16, but the trees didn't should have smooth sailing next year.
reach Oberlin until February -28.
Ries had given up hope that any of
the trees would survive shipment, but
after being, individually potted and
placed in the greenhouse, all of the
37 trees show signs of life.
IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE
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Best of Luck to The Class of '41
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