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You've GOT To...
You'll Be GYPPED Unless ...
yon LACK Patriotism If . . .
But as a matter of fact you don't have to do
a damn thing and no one can force you to. No
one can force a decision wholesale down the col
lective students' throats. And furthermore, any
one of the overly-zealous pro or con dance-cutters
who uses the phrases is more than foolish.
You don't have to do anything to the money
spent on dances if you don't want to.
No person or organization has the right to
attempt to force down the throat of Carolina stu
dents any issue which can be settled only in the
individual's conscience and sane thinking. Rather
this than the "chalk up one for our side" atti
tude when any of the two sides presents a valid
point, the knowing leer when the opponent
speaks, or the blind, straitjacketed agreement
merely because "that was the way I felt at the
beginning of the whole mess."
O
Forgotten is the fact that the Legislature is
not cramming a made-to-order decision down
our throats. The referendum proves7 that. The
referendum is taken as a challenge but it is
not a challenge to the Legislature, but a chal
lenge to the individual student to forsake clan
nish decision for individual decision, whatever we
may believe was done wrong' by either side in
the past. It is the sheep-will against the will
achieved by straight thinking beyond all the
bickerings of the past. Not "it's too much of a
cut," not "the Legislature did (or did not) abuse
its authority," not "I didn't (or did) like the
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way mey uiu ii.
Despite sniping accusations, the Daily Tar Heel
has not tried to railroad the issue. We have taken
a stand and stick by it because that is the duty
of any campus newspaper. Three columns have
been open to the opposition and we have printed
their reasons and their stand whenever these
were submitted. Although we cannot follow their
reasoning or agree with theirj stand, we respect
their sincerity. We ask in return only that they
and the other students whose individual ballots
will decide the issue respect our sincerity when
we present here in brief what we believe to -be
the nucleus of the issue:
DO YOU BELIEVE IN SACRIFICE DURING
THIS WAR?
WTe are losing this war fast. Thousands of
American soldiers are dying for a cause which
,is unquestionably right. We will soon take their
places to fight on. But lives even yours and
mine may not be enough. And every cent of
money which can be turned into productive chan
nels now will aid in some way to give America
a better chance to stave off defeat. The money
saved here could be spent for concrete worth
while causes, if the students decide to cut dance
expenses and if the individual then wants to
make his own sacrifice. Latest concrete proposal
would be to start a fund to furnish scholarships
for us Carolina men who return destitute from
the war to try to finish our education at this
University.
These are not words we want to thrust down
anvclv ele's throat. We cannot de
mand that von ewall'nv, see or hear them. We can
not even demand that you think about them.
That's your privilege.
The
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McKeever Takes Strong Stand
In Favor of Dance Reduction
MADE TO ORDER...
Plodding through disunity, disorganization,
unfair criticism, and political intrigue, the CVTC
has at last shed its diapers and stepped into long
pants. It has become a mature organization ready
to aid the army in making an officer out of the
Carolina students it receives via draft and volun
, teering.
The winter quarter has been spent by this
unit in marching in sweat-shirts whether in rain
or shine; in weeding out incompetent commis
sioned and non-commissioned officers; in laying
down sound organization plans; and in attempt
ing to gain financial support. Henry Wisebram
deserves everyone's thanks for the great amount
of time he has given to help the unit become
useful and practical. Dr. Totten and Colonel Ra
borg deserve no fewer thanks for the work they
have done on the administrative work of the
Corps. Due a lot of admiration are the students
who have stuck with the CVTC as privates dur
ing the trying,. times of its beginning. Most of
them will re-enter it for the spring quarter.
The class-room work connected with the CVTC
also has become well organized and coordinated.
These classes will give the student necessary
specialized training, and are being taught by men
who are qualified by experience in the army, and
who are receiving no remuneration for a tough
job.
Now that the CVTC is, a well-established or
ganization, every student contemplating being
drafted or volunteering this summer owes it to
himself to enroll-if he has not already done so.
The unit exists for his good. He should enter it
with a serious determination to cooperate with
his teachers and drill leaders. No one who has
been in it during the winter has made light of it.
Its only criticism has come from those on the
outside looking in.
Lieutenant General Ben Lear recently stated:
"Academic training is not of itself sufficient to
make a soldier. These college trained young men,
in most instances, have the physical and mental
qualities of an officer, but because of lack of
military knowledge they must join the greenest
recruits. It is a sad experience to see man after
man with excellent academic, qualifications go in
to rear ranks because of his complete lack of
education which the army requires no only for
qualified officers, but for competent non-commissioned
officers." Certainly the CVTC is the
answer to this criticism. It can not give commis
sions because of lack of official recognition by
the government, but it can greatly aid the future
draftees in qualifying for the -Officer's Training
School.
General Lear adds: "Non-ROTC schools have
overlooked the fact that 'specialized training is
of no value unless it is accompanied or preceded
by basic military training." The CVTC has ans-.
wered this with Military Science classes for
specialized training and drill periods for the im
portant basic training.
The CVTC has emerged out of its experimental
stage and with the help of 350 industrious stu
dents, has become a finished organization ready
for those who don't like to face the worries of
starting such a unit. Realize now that waiting
for your use, is an organization that can serve
you in preparing for the time when you must
serve your country. f
IN PASSING . .,
"Totalitarian governments require many train
ed but few. educated men. Democracies require
many of both. Training can be accomplished out
side the halls of learning; education cannot."
George A. Guillette of the University of Toledo
calls attention to a fundamental difference in the
educations programs of democracies and dictatorship.
To The Students:
Today, Carolina votes at the refer
endum. When the students go to the
polls, they will decide whether they
want' to dance to the tune of $3000
and over, or to local dance bands dur
ing the war. How Carolina students
vote will mean much to the future of
student government on the camous.
Undercurrent feeling on the dance
' issue is that officeseekers should not
take a definite stand. Political ex
pediency seems to demand a "hands
off until afterwards," a "don't be
foolish, why take sides" attitude. But
in my opinion, it would be better to
commit political suicide (if need be)
than to give any aid through silence
to a viewpoint during wartime that
I couldn't agree with. For this rea
son, I should like to go on record as
favoring the dance cut as proposed
by the Legislature.
Truman Hobbs and Ferebee Taylor
have expressed, better than I ever
could, the overwhelming logic in fav
or of no dances-as-usnal. What refugee-student
Paul Kattenburg told the
open forum Monday night is a chal
lenge to "ostrich thinking" and should
be considered by every voter. Two
years ago at the University of Brus
sels the student body there was con
fronted with exactly the same issue.
They did nothing, sacrificed none of
their luxuries. Today all but a hand
ful of those students are working in
Nazi-run factories or are suffering
in concentration camps.
No purpose can be served in in
structing or "telling" the student
body how to vote. However, I be
lieve that "hands-off-on-pertinent-issues"
and politics-as-usual policies
are on the way out. For in one form
or another, we will be forced to face
issues throughout the coming year.
To stand back now for fear of the
"political suicide" is to stand for
politics, dances, campus and student
government As Usual.
Our grandchildren are going to be
proud of us when they look at the rec
ord and find that when the country
gave every single ounce of our in
come, all of its income and resources
when it was losing a fight to preserve
freedom, some of us fought to spend
$15,000 a year to preserve pleasure.
I wonder if this is characteristic
of Carolina.
Sincerely,
; Hobart McKeever
among the damned ...
"with Damtoft
(This columnist feels that a noble
institution, St. Mary's, was slighted
in the last issue of the Carolina Mag
azine which took lots of space to ex
toll the merits of other nearby
schools. To remedy this, we have
prevailed on Hetty Kerry, a recent
student at St. Mary's to do a guest
column on that school.)
By Hetty Kerry
I enrolled in the University last
fall after spending two years at St.
Mary's and I want to say right now
that the difference is terrific. There
I was chased for two years by State
boys but here we chase them. Need
less to say, the class-rooms here pre
sent much more than the sterile class
rooms on Hillsboro St4 an I've learn
ed more in one evening at the Ar
boretum than I learned in two years
at St. M's.
O
St. Mary's girls seem to lack any
enthusiasm for anything but boys.
They have extra-curricular activities
but they are dull and uninspirational. x
For example, the band there was a
fine band, in fact they had the best
girl tuba player in the country, but
no one took any interest in it. It
could have been very useful on Sa
turday and Sunday afternoons. Its
members would have been more than
glad to have played for the boys and
girls seated on the lawn on those af
ternoons but no one seemed to want
them to.
O
Another place t where disinterest
and apathy was evident was at the
girl-break dances. I had a very hand
some date at one of them but what
happened? Someone spread word
that one of the boys there was heir
to an oil fortune and the rest of the
girls spent so much time dancing
with him, I was stuck .with my date
all evening. He was a nice fellow,
but he kept telling the stalest jokes.
I think he said he belonged to some
clique at Carolina known as Tar and
Feathers or something like that.
O ,
Now there is just one more point
I would like to make. That is, the
difficulty of getting a date with a
boy. I invited a nice fellow over one
Sunday, but what happened? He
came in the door and someone took
his name, then someone else took
his fingerprints, then someone took
his pants. He was patient though,
and bore this like a man. When
they finally asked him for a notarized
affidavit stating that he had never
TO THE EDITOR:
To The Editor:
I have heard bits of criticism con
cerning the music of Freddy John
son's orchestra as was played for
Sound and Fury's "Bagdad Daddy."
The criticism was light, it's true;
nevertheless, in all fairness to Fred
dy and his boys, I would like to clear
up a few points.
Johnson and his band turned in,
without a doubt, the best perform
ance of the show, and no one realized
this better than the cast itself. What
with inexperienced singers, frequent
ly missing their tempo and pitch, of
ten not beginning at the right time,
in short, not at all accustomed to
singing with an orchestra, the per
formance that maestro Freddy turn
ed in was nothing short of miracu
lous. Several times during the four
shows, F. Gaither Johnson and his
mighty men of music had to continue
a musical number without benefit
of written score, dancers, singers,
chorus routines or lights.
One of the mitier moguls of the
Johnson crew, "Mac" MacDougall by
name, turned in as torrid a batch of
arrangements as have ever been
heard on this or any other campus.
- Considering the fact that the band
had only three evenings in which to
rehearse and master these arrange
ments, their renditions were a credit
to their musical ability and were the
very essence of the whole show.
Yours very truly,
Bob Richards
necked or touched alcohol, he got mad
and left. He never even got a chance
to fill out a pink slip which when
clipped to the blue slip would have
meant I could have seen him for
thirty minutes provided no one rang
the dish-pan.
' O
When I left St. Mary's last fall,
I left with the sound of music in my
ears. The music of thousands of knit
ting needles clicking and clacking
was beautiful. Everyone was knit
ting sweaters for their men in the
forces. Suddenly there was a scream
and the teacher supervising the work,
her face a mask of horror, held up
the prettiest pair of pink booties you
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