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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1941 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL . Ebc Batlp Ear Seel The aG&zl newspaper of the Carolina Publication Union of the University of North Carolina at ChapeJ 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, $3i)0 for the college year. 1940 Mrmbrr 1941 Plssooafed CbSeSide Press ORVILLE CAMPBELL SYLVAN MEYER WILLIAM SCHWARTZ HENRY ZAYTOUN worn ma- National Advertisirg Service, Ice. OMef "miihbtrs KxprtunUtit 420 Maoisom Ave New YORK. N.Y. Editor 1 Managing fZditor . Eufinet Manager Acting Circulation Manager Associate Editor: Louis Harris, c EDITORIAL Board: Bucky Harward, Mac Norwood, Henry Moll, Bill Seeman, Bill Peete. SiX'ToiuSfM.n Llppncott. Bichd Adler, Billy Peon. M. Bu- chanan. III, Hilah Ruth Mayer. . . Niwa Editors: Bob Hoke. Paul Komisaruk. Ernie FrankeL pley?Elton Edwards, Mike BUm, Walter Klein, Westy Fenhagen, Gene Smith. Photograt ma : Hugh Morton. . , Assistant Photographers: Tyler Nourse, Carl Bishopric - Sports Editor: Harry Hollingsworth. - Night Sports Editors: Earle Hellen. Mark Garner, Horace Carter. -Sports Reporters: Ben Snyder, Bill Woediek, Bob Jones, Jean Beeks. Advertising Managers: Jacic ijudc mu sumoac, xw. uui . . . t n-npagmi ynrrc . xf o win T?nsPTi- "RnVi Bettman. ,'c jf Norrik Buddv Cummins. Richard Wise- berg, Betty Booker, Bill Collie, Jack Warner, Jstan Legum. . Office Staff: Bob Crews,, Eleanor SouleJeanne Hermann, Bob Covington. AflsT. Circulation Manager: Joe rennet. . Circulation Staff: Jules Varady, Larry Goldnch, Lois Ann Markwardt. By Buck Harward for TAt l$tue: News: PAUL KOMISARUK Sports: EARLE HELLEN "Men's weaknesses are often 'necessary to the purposes oMife. Maeterlinck. . . o Hell Raising Continues Certain irresponsible students in the men's dormitories started off the school year with the customary hell-raising. They were reauested at the 6utset to behave themselves and the Daily Tar Heel asked that the Interdormitory council wake up and superm-j tend the reform. , The Council has obliged with a flurry of bull sessions and the nightly riots have continued. - , - Cussing contests are still carried on between neighboring dor mitories. Unwary coeds walking, by are insulted. Bowling games with bottles and beer cans are staged. Radios run full blast until early morning. Under pretence of manifesting the Carolina spirit, 50 students even took it upon themselves the other night to wake up the whole lower quadrangle. - As long as these conditions continue, any decent relationship between women and men students will be handicapped, and stu dents living in men's dormitories will find adequate study and sleep impossible. . The offenders might remember that they have graduated from nigh school and are now part of a university. As Carolina gentle men, they are obligated to respect their fellow students. The Interdormitory Council might remember that it has more duties than merely to exist. As a student government or organiza tion, it is obligated to exert all its powers to protect the rights of dormitory students. There is an interesting dilemma in the fact that a courageous and com mendable effort by twelve self-help students to lower their living costs may be thwarted by the zoning ordi nance of Chapel Hill. The Tar Heel stands firmly behind the plan now being effected by those students although they believe that they were mistreated in a newsstory printed in Sunday morning's paper. This writ er, in an attempt to meet a 9 o'clock deadline at 10 o'clock Saturday night, misrepresented some facts and omitted others unintentionally. The students have been firmly con vinced ever since they considered oc cupying the house on Mallette Street that they would be within the law. When Dan Martin, self-help senior who was authorized to sign the lease, learned that the ordinance might cause trouble, he consulted two town lawyers. Their advice to go ahead, plus the fact that some of his friends had withdrawn from their former rooms caused him to proceed with signing the lease. O It would be foolish to attempt to settle here the legal . issue involved. Qualified authorities in the administra tion and University law school have varied opinions as to the outcome of the trial. , Martin has been charged students. with violating an ordinance which does not mention such a cooperative group in the purposes for which structures in the A residence zone may be used. The boys declared that their group should hot be classified as a club or lodge or any commercial organization which belongs in B zone. "We boys have joined together from economic need to maintain a home and to share its expenses." Martin says. "That is all." -. To The Editor: Yesterday's vote for the three final ists in the Fred Allen Talent Contest was unrepresentative in two respects. In the first place the student body was not cognizant of the fact that the vote was being held, and secondly yester day's vote was determined through the medium of . log-rolling, carte-blanche, plot and counter plot, in fact every thing concerned with a campus election except the racks and axe. During the past week, Tom Avera, Bob Richards, and Alonzo Squires were selected from forty candidates who And the boys are doing an excellent . participated in the first audition in the job on a new movement which in time might expand to solve the vital prob lems of decent and economic housing and boarding of students who cannot get into dormitories or who must econ omize. If possible, the case "should not be taken to court, where the students stand some chance of having to bear legal and court costs which they cannot well afford, A safer and more satisfactory method would be to appeal to the board of adjustment and the board of alder men for occupancy of the house for the rest of the year Representatives of the town should be willing to' countenance a short-run exception to the ordinance for the long run benefit of the University and its o Daisie Mae, We Love You! It is our. hope that Al Capp, the originator of Li'l Abner, and the group of LIFE photographers who are going to be on the campus this week-end for Sadie Hawkins Day will not be disap pointed. But unless" the Carolina Coed and the Carolina Gentleman decide to wake up, some important people are going to be disil lusioned. Two years ago Sadie Hawkins Day was a farce. Last year it was-a success. Still the Carolina Coed did not cooperate. A small number "got their man" out of Fish's Fish Bowl. The rest thought : it was below their dignity. The Carolina Coed SADIE should wake up to the realization that the ratio IS HERE on this camnus is 6 to 1, and under those con ditions it's not hard to get a date. When an oc casion such as Sadie Hawkins Day comes along, they should at least do some "fishing" for a date. It won't hurt, and chances are your date will be a pretty good guy. Most Carolina Gentlemen are Let's plan now to devote this week-end to Sadie Hawkins Day .and the University. The publicity we will receive will mean a great .deal to Carolina. Al Capp accepted the University of North Caro lina over a hundred other schools from which he received invi tations. The least we can do is show our appreciation by showing Capp the time of his life. The Carolina Spirit of Living is won derful. Let's put on our best front, and get Capp to move from Dogpatch to Chapel Hill. - If President Roosevelt, Senator Pep per, Herbert Agar or some other rifle polisher in this country were to call us up and say, "If you were in our shoes, today, what would you do?" well, we know exactly what to suggest. We would start out by telling the boys to sit down a minute, light up a cigarette and drink a Coca-Cola and think this thing out. We would tell them to stop letting their sentiment run away with their common sense." We would propose a new motto for the United States: . KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON Take Julius Caesar, for instance. ' No slouch at war-making himself, the wily old Roman learned early in his career that there are times when what-you-want-to-do does not exactly coincide with what-you-have-to-do. It down in history as the Great Rescu er. And we say, Would That It Could Be So. . They shout Declare War' America and Fulfil Your Destiny and we say, Whoa, Now, Keep Your Shirts On. Because there is more to fighting a war than just " wanting to. Much as we admire the British, much as we would like to declare war today and deal a crushing blow to Hitlerism, wonderful as it would be for the United States to be the Savior of the Conti nent, the great, undisputable fact re mains : We are in no condition to fight a war, ' Leaders of the army admit it, and government leaders might as well, rec ognize it. We don't have the men and University Radio Studio. - On Friday night the three finalists were broad cast over Stations WDNC and WBIG. Few students heard the broadcast and yet it is the students who are endowed with the privilege of selecting the win ner. ' ' . i - ' . . ' ' . ' ." Realizing that the student body was not acquainted with the issue at hand, one of the finalists placed his repre sentatives in the vicinity of the voting booths and delegated. those petty poli ticians to seek out the students' vote. It is my purpose in this letter not only to expose this issue but also to influ ence the students to vote conscientious- ly. This was not a campus political elec tion and the stakes were not similar to those involved in a campus election. If the students choose a poor leader in the spring elections it is they who have to bear with him during the school year. If politics determine. a leader in this contest, the citizens of our nation will t - , Three UNC Graduates Receive Commissions Among the 98 cadets who received commissions second lieutenants in the United States Army Air Corps on Oc tober 31 from Barksdale Field, Louisi-! ana, were three graduates from the University. Nicky D. Patterson, Jr., Elm City, Richard A. Harris, Valdosta, Ga., and Harry L. Hawkins, Asheville, received their commissions. Hawkins gradu ated from the University with a BS degree in commerce in 1939. Harris received a BS in commerce in 1936. Patterson left the University in 1939. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. have to bear with the winner when fce appears in Fred Allen's national radio program. We, the students of the University of North Carolina have been extended a distinct privilege and have been en dowed with a trust. We did not prove ourselves worthy of this trust, (hr vote decided what student will receive $200, a free trip to New York and an opportunity to participate in Fred Al len's radio program. Is it politics that determined the winner to be pre sented to the radio world? Respectfully yours, M. T. S. were tb declare war today, we would speak in Memorial Hall on "Religious a meeting for students interested in amateur gardening in 106 Phillips. is said of him that on occasions when materials. We are not ready. If we 8:00 Dr. G. E. Morgenstern will his forces were surprised by the enemy and that happens to the best of them he would drop back a little way until he could rally his men together, draw up more supplies, and choose a position where his men would have the advantage. Freedom Is Made Of Simple Stuff From the archives of broken peace we are bringing out old words and dusting them off for use again as shining lanterns to lead us through the darkness of another war. N . Words like freedom, justice and truth all of them hard to de fine, none of them used, more frequently than freedom. You cannot say what freedom is, perhaps, in a single sentence. It is not necessary to define it. It is enough to point to it. , Freedom is a man lifting a gate latch at dusk and sitting for a while on the porch, smoking his pipe, before he goes to bed. It is the violence of an argument outside an election poll; it is the righteous anger of the pulpits. It is the warm laughter of a girl on a park bench. It is the rush of a train over the continent and unafraid faces of people looking out the windows. It is all the howdys in the world, and all the hellos. It is Westbrook Pegler telling Roosevelt how to raise his chil dren ; it is Roosevelt letting them raise themselves. It is Lindbergh's appeasing voice raised above a thousand hisses. It is Dorothy Thompson asking for war; it is Gen. Hugh S. John son asking her to keep quiet. It is you trying to remember the words to The Star-Spangled Banner. v- It is the sea breaking on wide sands somewhere and the shoul ders of a mountain supporting the sky. It is the air you fill your lungs with and the dirt that is your Much as he wanted to pitch right in fighting, and important as the bat tle might be, he still had to Keep His Shirt On until the odds were on his side. That's how things look for the United States today. We'll admit that this country and the whole world for that matter has been taken by surprise, caught with our guard down. It doesn't matter at this time how it happened or who is responsible, but the fact remains. We have been caught off? balance. The troops of Adolf Hitler have been pushing through city after city, coun try after country. Today, cumbersome, unorganized Russia is snarling back and beating at the lines with clumsy paws. Britain is striking here and there and putting in an occasional good lick. But on the whole, the picture of Europe is darkened as if by a settling mist. ----- - -- . . . ; One by one, as lights in a country town after curfew, the little candles of liberty are being put out all over the continent. ! It is a terrible thing and the only 1 thing that the well-meaning, ideal istic interventionists can see. They 'point out the grim-jawed Britishers fighting for their bit of freedom, the Princesses knitting mittens, The Wookey, the brave young RAFmen flying into twilight, the magnificent - stand of freedom, and we say Eng land, Our Hearts Are. With You. They see the America of 1941 going have about as much chance of defeat ing Hitlerism as our football team had against Tulane. We are not ready to fight, and the quicker we realize it, the quicker we will get prepared. Let us continue to send all possible aid to our allies, but let us remember that once we do get in the battle it will not be an easy one. Instead of getting into battle while we're playboys, let's wait until we've become full grown soldiers. 9t cMafLpenA 12 :00 All members of the Freshman Friendship Council who want to make the Greensboro trip next Saturday, must pay . the transportation fee of one dollar to Tempe Newsome in the YMCA. 1:45 The business staff of the DTH will meet in the Business office. 2 :00 A meeting of the news, sports, and editorial staffs of the DTH will be held in the News office. 4:00 Meeting of the committee of ficers - of the Freshman Friendship council will be held in the YMCA. 4:00 A special meeting of the Coed Senate will be held in Caldwell hall. 7:00 The Band will meet in Hill hall for concert music . 7:15 Phi Assembly meets in Phi Hall, fourth floor New East. 8:00 Herbert Livingston and Wil liam Gant give a piano concert in Hill Music hall. 8:00 A joint meeting of the Town Boys' and Girls' associations will be held in Gerrard hall. . 8:00 Robert Skoffner will conduct Thought." 9:00 The Debate Squad and Coun cil will meet in the Grail Room of Gra ham Memorial. . To the Editor: An Open Letter to the CPU and the IRC. For the past two years, I have faith fully attended the addresses given by the speakers presented by the two or ganizations to whom this letter is ad dressed in what may be termed the av erage college students eternal quest for knowledge and information, and I have continually gone away from Memorial Hall feeling that the time I had thus wasted could have been put to better usage by reading a good book. The speakers, in general, seem to have the idea that their audience has rfc knowledge whatsoever of the topics on which they have chosen to speak, and as a result usually con fine themselves to the barest remarks possible on the subject without ever succeeding in telling us something that we are not already aware of from the daily perusal of the news papers and news magazines that are available to us. The threat .to our security and to our "way of life" in recent years has caused the American public in general and the American student in particu lar to attempt to secure as much in formation as possible pertaining to the position of the American nation in the world at war. What knowledge wedo lack is the intricate details of thebehind-the-scene activities of our national government and it is these details that the speakers are able to give us but never do. If the CPU and the IRC would in form their projected speakers that their audience desires knowledge out of, their ordinary reach and not a rehash of that which they already know, the two organizations and their speakers would inform instead of wasting our time and, thereby, serve a useful purpose. Emanuel Rivkin Send the-DAILY TAR HEEL home Sport Coats Style, Quality & Value Carolina Men's Shop PICK TODAY "Man At Large MARJORIE WEAVER GEORGE REEVES RICHARD DERR garden. It is a man cursing all cops. It is the absence of apprehension at the sound of approaching footsteps outside your closed door. It is your hot resentment of intrigue, the tilt of your chin and tfie tightening of your lips sometimes. It is all the things you do and want to keep on doing. Freedom Itis you. Reprinted from the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal. Jit, : V. ' Y' .-IT SARA AlLGOO " . Un HecM COLOR CARTOON NOW PLAYING i
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