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TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1942 Ihe Daily chrUsd PAGE TWO alto - eel OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CAROLINA PUBLICATIONS UNION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Published daily except Mondays, Elimination periods and the Thanks giring, Christmas and Spring . holi days. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C-, under act of March 3, 1879. 1941 Member 1942 Associated GoHe6a!e Press National Advertising Service, Inc. College "ahUibcrs Representative AZO Madison Ave New York. N. Y. Cbco aosro lm ftmr ttm Faaaoaco Subscription Rates fl.50 One Quarter $3.00 One Yeai All signed articles and columns art opinions of the writers themselvest and do not necessarily reflect tks opinion of the Daily Tab Hxel. For This Issue: News: WE STY FENHAGEN Sports: BILL WOESTENDIEK Osyillb Camfbxxl Sylvan Metes Uditor William Schwartz Henby Zaytoun Bucky Haewabd JIanaging Editor -Business Manager -Acting Circulation Manager Associate Editor Editorial Boaed: Mac Norwood, Henry Moll. Columnists: Marion Lrppincott, Walter Damtoft, Harley Moore, Elsie Lyon, Brad McCuen, Tom Hammond. News Editoes: Bob Hoke, Paul Komisaruk, Hayden Carruth. Assistant News: A. D. Carrie, Walter Klein, Westy Fenhagen, Bob Levin. Reporters: Jimmy Wallace, Billy Webb, Larry Dale, Charles Kessler, , Burke Shipley, Elton Edwards, Gene Smith, Morton Cantor, Nancy Smith, Jule Phoenix, Janice Feitelberg, Jim Loeb, Lou Alice Taylor. Photographer : Hugh Morton. .Assistant Photographers: Tyler Nourse, Bill Taylor. Sports Editor: Harry Hollrngsworth. Night Sports Editors : Earle Hellen, Mark Garner, Bill Woestendiek. Sports Reporters: Ben Snyder, Stud Gleicher, Thad Tate, Phyllis Yates. Advertising Managers: Jack Dube, Bill Stanback, Ditzi Buice. Durham Representatives: Marvin Rosen, Bob Bettman. Local Advertising Staff: Jimmy Norris, Buddy Cummings, Richard Wiseberg, Charlie Weill, Betty Booker, Bill Collie, Jack Warner, Stan Legum, Dick Kerner. Office Staff: Bob Crews, Eleanor Soule, Jeannie Hermann, Bob Covington. Typist: Ardis Kipp. Circulation Office Managers: Rachel Dalton, Harry Lewis, Larry Goldrich, Bob Godwin. 1 he Dailv Opinions n n lar nee Columns f! o Letters na ags Features Letters (We nzesy) cssyiccotD l MAJC IT FITJ IKS WAY SC& PEOPLE PARK, TVZZB'S PLENTY OF ROOM FOR iMPROVEMENTi MABOMAI SAFFPTCOUNOl Gretter and Railey Deny Charges Against Debating GET FIGHTING MAD! . Don't get me wrong I'm just an ordinary- guy. I'm not trying to pose as an expert on the LOANED TO THE NAVY . . . . Yesterday three of the finest "guys" we've ever had the pleasure to know left Carolina, and among the damned . . . with Damtoft (Saturday night, I stumbled over a mail sack and not being able to read at the time, carried it home and opened it this morning. Braving a ten year prison sentence for inter- moulding of public opinion. I'm not talking big departed for the United States Naval Academy ferring with the us maiUt forth. about what Yd do if it was my job to whip up the country on the war effort. I'm talking as an average citizen. I'm saying, not what I'd like to tell them, but what I'd like to be told. Soon. Because I'm concerned, and I've been concern ed, about my reaction to all that's been happen ing. Sure, I'm buying bonds. I'm paying taxes. I'm doing with less sugar. But deep down inside, down where it really matters,-something hasn't taken place yet that I feel ought to take place. It keeps me scratching my head and mopping my brow when I know I ought to be clenching my fists. You understand? It's like this: I want to be told riot to buy Defense Stamps or Defense Bonds. I want to be told to buy Vic tory Stamps or War Bonds. I want to be told not about the construction of houses in Defense Areas. I want to be told about the construction of houses in War Produc tion Areas. I want to be told not to do my part to keep Naziism or Fascism from these shores. I want to be told to do my part to spread Americanism to all shores. I want to be told not to help keep our world and our way of life from being lost. I wrant to be told to help build a new world and -a better way of life. I want a positive program instead of a passive one. I want something to fight for I'm sick and tired of having only something to fight against. I'm hungry for something to tget pepped up about I'm repelled from having only something to fear. I want something to do not just to wrait for. It hasn't been so long since the last war that I forget what happened then. I remember the parades and the speeches and the ringing slo gans. Then we fought to make the world safe for democracy. We bought Liberty Bonds. We sang that the Yanks were coming. We hated the Kaiser we didn't laugh at him. We -likened his upturned handle-bars to the dev il's horns not to anything so harmless and pa thetic as the famous hirsute prop Charlie Chap lin plasters on his upper lip. We saw nothing to be amused about in his vain and pompous postur ings as we do today in Mussolini's puffy strut ting. We didn't pin our hopes on the defective eyesight of our enemy. We planted war gardens. We poured our mon ey into war chests. We had gasless Sundays and yelled "Slacker!" at anyone who dared to ven ture out in his Winton or Hupmobile or Stearns Knight. We churned one pound of butter into, two pounds and did it with as much will as if we were turning out ammunition. We took the offensive psychologically long be- fore we took it physically. And if we hadn't tak en it psychologically, wTe'd never have developed the drive to take it physically. And don't tell me we can't do the same now. I want to sing that today we control our own destiny, tomorrow the destiny of the whole world. I want to sail against Germany, against Italy, against Japan. If they can sail against us and our allies, why can't we sail against them? I want to construct a greater America co prosperity sphere. I want to correct the mistakes of the Versailles treaty insofar as they allowed all this to happen. I want to win lebenstraum for the democratic way of life. I'm fed up with singing plaintive songs I want to sing battle songs. Don't tell me there'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover. To at Annapons. loaay rney oegin a iour-weeK with publish some of the letters which training period before taking a post as a com- by a peculiar coincidence are all let- missioned officer in the Navy's pre-flight train ing program. And strangely enough there was no group of cheering students to see them off. For Coach Hay Wolf it was probably the "biggest game" of his "fine and clean" career. For Johnny Mor riss, assistant track coach, and Bo Shepard, as sistant athletic director, it meant leaving Chap el Hill for a bigger and more useful job with Uncle Sam. Why the students didn't show their appreciation we don't know. For down deep we know they feel as we feel. They hated to see these men leave the University. Of all the coaches wTe have ever known, we have never met a grander guy than Ray Wolf. We have never seen a group of boys more de voted to a coach than members of his football squads. He was an "ideal" to football players, to, students, to fans, to those who worked for him and against him. Wolf's formula was sim ple. He wanted his players to give their best, to play the game hard, to play the game clean. Certainly he wanted to win, but he made his players realize that there was something to be gained on the field besides victory. When Grant land Rice once wrote that, "it's not who won but how ybu played the game that counts," he must have been thinking about men like Wolf. Per haps that was the reason Wolf offered his ser vices to the Navy. He wanted to teach America's men to play the game hard and clean. We could tell you about Johnny Morriss, as sistant track coach, and Bo Shepard. For these two men believe in the same things that Wolf stands for. Countless times we have heard ath letes thank Coach Bo for giving them sound ad vice. "Coach Bo" was always ready to help any and everyone. He was that kind of man, both in his office and on the playing field. , Three other Carolina sport figures graduated this week-end after a four-week period. Johnny Vaught, assistant football coach; Ralph Casey, freshman swimming coach; and Jim Lalanne, former football star, were among the first class of 600 prominent coaches and athletes who grad uated and will serve as officers in the Navy's air cadet physical education training program. These six men will play prominent parts in training our Naval Cadets. They will help Amer ica win the war. And when the victory is won they will return to Carolina and take up where they left off they will teach character to the future leaders of this state and nation. ters by campus BMOC's to their loves.)'' Dear G. My love for you is 48 point. To me, you are a faultless galley proof. Your beautiful face is like perfect copy. Your name is tops in my mast head, in fact you will always be my lead edit. I hope that you will say yes in- ample time for the deadline as Uncle Sam is getting anxious. Your typography is more beautiful than New York Times makeup and you may.be sure that my follow up will be relentless. I certainly got a scoop when I got you and all I am waiting for is for you to tell me that I can go ahead with the engravings. Puddles of purple ink, Doorbell Ambell Editor The Daily TH. O Dear P. Ah my love, when will we be com bined by Rev. Jones. The combina tion would save us so much money and we could have one big home with more issues. Our parents have said that we should not marry but I think that we should do it anyway and have baby esquires all our own. As it is, we are wasting money separat ed and neither of us are getting any where. Oh yes, I now have a free pass to Graham Memorial so we can go to all the Russian Rassles. So darling you can see that our combi-" nation will be a beautiful one so let us petition our parents to let us go through with it. Reams and reams of cover kisses, . Hungry Mole Dear M. Darling, you are as beautiful as a perfectly executed right column. I am never at ease when I am around you, however, and my step is awful when I dance with you. I would s double time to be near you though, and I hope that some day I will mass one pace to the left of you in front of a preacher. My mother about faced and called me down when I said I wanted to marry you, but I insisted to her that we would some day come to close order. Please write me as I can't dismiss you from my mind. Kisses rank upon rank, Henri Eyesdown across the desk... Dub Johnson worked hard in the -UNC-Davidson game and expected a word or two of congratulation from want to develop a stiff uppercut. I'm tired of be ing made to feel sad. I want the experience the purging, marshaling, driving experience of hell with bluebirds. Tell me there'll be vultures being made to feel mad. Fighting mad! and a deathly silence over Berchtesgarden. You get me? I'm bored with keeping a stiff upper lip I W. J. Weir in Printer's Ink. WELL, MR. PECK? ... As you will notice above, Mr. Peck, Coach Ray Wolf has left Carolina for Annapolis. He is the same coach that the University club has cheer- his parents who had seen him play for the first time but none were, forthcoming. Reason: . Dub's parents had invited a friend to the game who had accepted but told he would be late. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson told him that they would watch for him and go to the gate and give him the ticket when he arrived. This they did at a point when the score of the game was 2-1 in favor of UNC. They returned and during some conversation, they looked at the score sheet being kept by the president-emeritus of Davidson who was in front of them. . His score read 3-1. The Johnson's commented that he must have made a mistake and the game was soon over. As soon as the Johnsons got back to Concord, several friends congratu lated them for. having such an ex cellent ball player for a son. They thanked them but coludn't see that "Dub had done so much. Finally one ed and encouraged for so many seasons. He is the same coach that the football team and this student body which the University club is sup posed to represent have looked up to for the years he was here. Somehow, we think that a sendoff just before he left to serve our country would have been far more appropriate than some of the pep rallies which the club staged last fall before games which were not nearly so big as the one Wolf will now be coaching. Wolf has left, but it is not too late to show campus appreciation. Well, Mr. Peck? To the Editor: Across the Desk and the facts about the Debate Council are in com plete disagreement. As president of the Debate Council I speak from ex perience with all the facts. I speak as an individual only and not for the Council. Across the Desk states that the Debate council receives forty cents a quarter from each student. The debating fee is seventeen cents per quarter per student. This makes a total of fifty one cents for the year, and not forty cents per quarter. I suggest that when a Tar Heel writ er attempts to discuss student fees regarding the Debate Council he first eonsult the first footnote on page 61 of the General Catalogue of this University. The Debate Council sincerely ap preciates intelligent criticism. As a matter of fact it has thrived on it. Attendance at debates held here this year and at squad meetings has been the best in several years. We are reaching more students than Across the Desk is willing to admit. Criticism, in order to be intelli gent, needs to be based on facts. Ap parently you don't give a damn about facts. In feeling that the Debate Council does not reach the lives of the students who support it you for get that all the students also pay. for dance bids, which they often ..times sell, publications which they do not read, and student entertain ments which they frequently fail to attend. Carrington Gretter. To the Editor: Your writer in his column "Across The Desk" yesterday (Sunday) , tells us that "formal speaking is a thing of the past" and that "debating is on its way out." He asks us why there is need for intercollegiate de bating, when, as he states, only about ".007" of the students participate in the University's debating program. To the average student, the writ er's views seem asinine. And they are. To me, being a member of the council this year, they are utterly ridiculous. I fear for what would become of our democratic way of life if debating and formal speaking were no more. Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. of the friends said that Dub had knocked a homer. Upon consulta tion with the papers, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson learned that Dub had knock ed a home-run while they were giv ing their friend the ticket. Churchill, Mr. Hitler, and all great leaders depend on formal speaking to get their ideas across to their peo ples. Our own Senate is a place of debate. I thank God that the cre ators of our constitution saw fit to make it such. We have a good debate program here at the University One for which we all can boast. In our re cent trip to the midwestern states, everywhere we went, we were high ly commended for our debating. We debated questions of importance to everyone. In the years before the war, our debate teams to England gained much prestige for our Univer sity. Surely, we cannot disregard the facts at hand. I agree with the writer of the column, it is a shame that so few students take an interest in debat ing. This year, we have had 40 stu dents at squad meetings. They are all good debaters and speakers as well. It is fine that we have that many, but there should be many more.. Every day we see student leaders who can't speak on their feet. Things like this should not occur. Letfs not abolish debating. Let's get more students interested in it. The advantages from debating are many. Among these are : 1. Ability to think on your feet. 2. Ability to recognize the main issues in a prob lem and to think through and solve such problems. 3. Ability to speak in public. ' Debate squad meetings are open to everyone. It is up to every in dividual student to come up and make the best of his opportunities at hand. Yours for better debating, Dick Railey, . Executive Secretary, Debating Council. -Something New--Distinguished -Creations-Hand Carved SORORITY AND U. E C. PINS From Rare Woods LEDBETTER-PICKARD Latest Novels, Biographies, Poetry, and Plays BUY Them or RENT Them BULL'S HEAD BOOKSHOP U. N. C. 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