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All-Out Vote (Continued from first page) majority of those voting may override an act of the 'Legislature or change the Legislature's constitution. The proposed amend ments reduce these requirements to 25 per cent of the student body voting. The Student Legislature is the most representative governing organization on the campus. Its purpose is to serve the student body by looking' after its interests. If these amendments are passed the Student Legislature will be even closer to the student body because students could then make its opposition of an act or its approbation of an amendment more readily felt. These issues are very important. In fact, "they are the most important faced by the student body since the Legislature was first established April 12, 1938. If these amendments are passed, it will mean that the representatives will have to be more on their toes than ever before. They would have to know more than ever what the student body wants because, the campus could more easily override the Legislature's actions. These facts are cer tainly for a more democratic form of self-government. How the campus votes on these questions is really a test of dem ocracy. It is a gigantic task to get half of the student body to vote oh any issue. Some feel that it is too much trouble to go to the polls to vote. This attitude is one of the fundamental weak nesses of democracy. And dictatorship or autocracy would be much easier to GIVE. But how would the student body like to TAKE it? If we are to have student self government, then there are cer tain duties that we must perform. If you want us to continue our present form of student government by, for, and of the stu dents, then you will go out to the polls and cast your vote one way or the other on these issues. We ask your cooperation with us and we urge you to perform your duty so that you may retain your privilege for action. Sincerely, W. J. Smith Speaker of the Legislature There is hardly any "one way or other" about today's voting on the Legislature's constitutional amendments. All four amend ments are indisputably for the good of the campus. But the bigger issue than the pro's and con's of any one of the amendments is whether or not the student body will turn out to vote. Last spring when asked to vote on some of the same amend ments at the general elections polls, enough of the student body refused to spend the few calories necessary so that the solution to the representation problem of the Legislature went unap proved. But last spring Legislature leaders disappointed with the don't-give-a-damners could look forward to another vote this fall. Now there can be no "next vote." The Legislature is already running behind the ambitious but essential agenda which its leaders have set readjustment of student fees, treatment of the recreation problem, establishment of a campus constitution. The new amendments give the assembly the representation and constitutional flexibility to go ahead with these critical problems before they get out of hand. They also give the student body the power of rejecting acts of the Legislature, a power which can be wisely used if the time ever comes when that organization be comes so autonomous that it refuses to listen to the deans of its campus constituents. And a vote that fails will be disastrous for the campus and its student government. If they fail now to get a majority, Speaker Smith and company can look forward only to muddled months of inaction that would allow the campus to develop enough apathy about its student government to let the whole works go to pot. Apropos Another appeal to cut down week-end travel by bus and train has been issued by the Office of Defense Transportation. A fur ther shift of eight per cent in traffic from week-end to midweek is imperative, it is said, to relieve congestion on these carriers. vCollege students have been asked not to contribute to mass movements of fans to football games this fall. Views expressed by the columnists in this newspaper are not necessarily those of the editors who restrict editorial opinion to the staff editorials. In matters of controversy or criticism, the Daily Tar Heel permits space to the individual columnist's opinion and for the opinion of readers so long as the articles submitted are, in the editor's opinion, sincere and factual. wht mattv The official newspaper of 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. - WmilNTID FOR NATIONAL. ADVBRT1SIMO tt 1941 Member 1942 Pbsocicrfed GoUe6icrte Press Bucky HARWAED Bob Hoke Bill Stanback.. Henry Zaytoun.. Associate Editors : Henry Moll, Sylvan Meyer, Hayden Carruth. Editorial Board : Sara Anderson. News Editors: Bob Levin, Walter Klein, Dave Bailey. Reporters: James Wallace, Larry Dale, Sue Feld, Sara Yokley, Walter Dam toft, Janice Feitelberg, Burke Shipley, Leah Richter, Frank Ross, Sarah Niven, Bob Harris, Jud Kinberg, Madison Wright, Rosalie Branch, Fred Kanter, Betty Moore, Arnold Schulman, Helen Eisenkoff, Bruce Douglas, Jane Cavenaugh, Robert Johns, Roland Giduz, Kat Hill, Jerry Hurwitz. : Sports Editor: Westy Fenhagen. Night Sports Editor : Bill Woestendiek. Sports Reporters: Charles Easter, Ben Snyder, Phyllis Yates, Paul Finch. Photographers: Carl Bishopric, Tyler Nourse. Advertising Staff: Charlie Weill, Bob Bettman, Marvin Rosen, Betty Booker, Bob Crews, Thad Carmichael, Betty Bronson, Bebe Castleman, Edith Col vard, Henry Petuske, Al Grosner, Larry Rivkin. Circulation Staff: Rachel Dalton, Larry Goldrich, Tommy Dixon, Bob Godwin. FOR THIS News: DAVE C. BAILEY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative AZO Madison Ave. New York. N. Y. chicafo Bos tou . loi Anaius Sa Francisco ..Editor Managing Editor Business Manager ...Circulation Manager ISSUE: Sports: BILL WOESTENDIEK SPORT SLANTS - nr mum mmm 1 5fT ift W XL' xi ra i, v ' W 11 W 1 Form No. WSS 520 K Tab eepmg One of the campus mogul journal ism majors asked his prof for a higher grade after looking over the dismal mark he received on a quiz. The prof turned thumbs down on the request and the ( journalism major, a very modest fellow, quipped back: "O. K., but when I become famous and they check back on my grades in school you're gonna feel awfully damn silly." Helpful Hint Dept.: Candy is dan dy, but liquor is quicker. Wanna win a bet from your room rate? Bet him he can't tell you the first name of President Wilson. If he comes back with Woodrow, you win 'cause World War I's prexy's first name was Thomas. A recent advertisement in New Yorker modestly states: "Cartier's Roses in gold to lift the spirit. A lovely ensemble each petal faithfully real. One of a pair of clips $250 each; the pair of ear clips $275 . . . . At Cartier's it always has been, and always will be, quality at a moderate cost." Are they kiddin' ? The WPB lists silk stockings as a necessity. That is, of course, up to a certain point. If you think running the obstacle course (ed. note: what again?) is tough, cop a gander at' the schedule all the lads in school followed in 1917 when this was an SATC camp. "6:00 A.M. first call; 6:15 Reveille; 6:30 Breakfast; 7:15 Assembly (phy sical exercise); 8:00-12:15 Academic Work (except Sunday); 1:30 (Sat urday) Military Instruction; 2:35 3:55 (Mon. Wed. Fri.) Academic Work, and (Tues. Thurs. Sat.) Mili tary Instruction; 4:00 Military In struction; 6:00 Retreat; 6:15 Supper; 7:30 Study Call; 10:00 Taps." And in case you think there were many coed shoulders around on which to rest your tousled brow please be informed that in 1917 there were 32 coeds in Chapel Collitcru Suggested Song Titles: For my car tires: "You're An Old Smoothy." . . . For Hitler: "Just Plain Loath- CAMPUS GRAPEVINE By the Staff We dropped by the Yackety Yack office yesterday and watched the business staff and editors begin work on their 17-thousand dollar plaything. Coeds, much up to par, were busy typing, filing, skulking. Knowing now that his coeds are fast enough, Editor Hobbs is worried now only about the slowness of the seniors in getting their pictures taken. He em phasizedwith brusqueness and some profanity that a Y-Y editor might make good for the first time the perennial threat of leaving the camera-shy out of the book. Upon having seen "Iceland," we are wondering with considerable wor ry whether the Hays Office ever did wake up or just slept on through the preview. Incidentally, the theater seems to have conjured up the excellent idea that if it opens the box office 15 min utes early and sells tickets as pros pects come up, the mob scene may be avoided. Credit to the theater for some overdue thinking. - By Pap 0.SWAE With Stud Gleicher some. What with the Navy accepting wo men recruits and President Roose velt setting ceilings on salaries, America may become known as the "Home of the Freeze, and the Land of the WAVE." One of the boys who drove up to Fordham swears this happened to him on one of Virginia's back roads. He got stuck in some of that red clay and after paying a farmer three bucks to haul him out asked the far mer how much he made a day pulling cars out. The farmer answered: "sometimes as high as ten or twelve dollars a day." Our hero asked, "Do you pull them out at night too ? " "Nope," was the retort, "gotta haul water at night." That's all for now. Gotta study for a couple of quizzes in Public Shrieking 45; Interpretive Analysis of Comic Strips 62; and Pinball Me chanics and Ethics 132. STRICTLY DETRIMENTAL October 12, 1942 A large percentage of the male population of the University find themselves in a peculiar position: Many of them have gone blithely ahead inviting their "one and onlies" to Homecoming weekend, and now they find there ain't no such thing. National defense, which has been blamed for everything from lack of gasoline to the scarcity of good liquor, has now sabotaged the Rice game. As things shape up this after noon, the only football game that will be played Saturday afternoon will be between Alderman dorm and the Boys Down at Harry's. Cam pus bookies have no line on either of these teams, but coaches think some good material for the varsity may be hidden on the dorm squad. If Kenan stadium isn't used in the afternoon, the least University officials can do is make sure that the sports arena is ready to hold the throngs that will gather there Saturday night, about 12 o'clock. These night "games" are quite the thing, with no holds barred. Tonight the Athletic Association meets in solemn conclave, and holds the fate of those Homecoming dates in their hands. If they can get us a game with some team, even the Terrible T, the Chicago Bears, all will be saved except the football players' constitutions. If they fail, all will be dismal. After all ,what can you do to waste time until the evening, with only fifty cents in your pocket? There is one more thing that bothers us. Every possible room in town is being used by seven stu dents for sleeping and various other sundry purposes ; which leaves noth ing for our dates but Dan's dog .house and the bell tower. We looked at Dan's house today so we could estimate repairs needed, but three freshmen shut the door in our faces. So we beat it over to the tower and began figuring out how to make beds out of the bells, as the other space was used by stu dents hanging by their feet. The bell ringer told us that all reservations would have to come by mail because the Tower Apartments were busy for the whole coming year. B.L. and J.K. Weary Wisher Campus Life Crumbles While Leaders Sit By By Hayden Carruth and Sylvan Meyer Today student leaders are plung ing headlong and unequipped into the greatest period of University turmoil ever experienced in Chapel Hill history, and most of them don't know it. It's a broad, : long-range question, one of those things that creeps along underneath the mono tone of daily life for a couple of years, and then smashes apart that monotone so fast that pretty-boy politicians gape and stare and look like the stupid fools most of them are. It's the problem of the unprece dented decentralization of the stu dent body. A University, despite the arguments of professors, is not held together by classrooms and academic interests. A University is not a bunch of classrooms and a library at least a successful Uni versity isn't because students are human beings and must live in a closely knit social community. But what happens? The Navy, no longer begrudged by most, has moved in, lock, stock and Kessing. Cadets took over most of the Uni versity's dormitories; students took it n the lam. Autumn rolls round and finds the scramble for rooms in town an intolerable hodge-podge . of high rents, stinking rooms, and not enough to go around the fault of Rogerson, Armstrong, and some other South building unworthies. When things finally do get settled down, the student body, formerly living on the campus for the most part, is scattered from wood's edge to wood's edge around Chapel Hill. The result is this: little knots of students who gather in rooming houses all over the village form iso lated and unconnected social units. Nothing but football games brings them into contact with the general student body in any way except for classroom routine and in all prob ability football games will be a fond "memory this time next fall. In a year, or maybe two, when old students trained in University traditions have passed into that yiCTORY BUY ty UNITED DEFENSE yw&oNPs STAMPS ACROSS 1 Shovel S Attend 10 Ascending steps 11 Good fortunes 14 Chairs 16 Heavy weight 17 Large homes 18 Also 19 Likewise 20 Noun suffix 22 Electrical engineer (abbr.) 24 Sums levied against property 28 Bone 30 Japanese coin 31 God (Lat.) 32 Symbol for silicon 33 Remained upright 35 Little devil 37 Long-armed fish 39 Soapstone 40 Paragon 41 Egg on 44 Insect 45 Hair rinse ' 46 Compass point 47 Assist 49 Clever word ' ! 50 Senior (abbr.) 51 Garments 55 Exclamation of hesitation 56 King of hummingbird 57 Eye (Scot.) 59 Be sickly v IMS- dm yet HI ft f 1 k' ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE ZlART fSAIS IglOlTl OVER, A LL SEBTaJ g E L I T TLEg MlTfl 1 i c e "teis ano maskT A6e"r atlTImI A shop eTst g qtl Egjf SETA! I NtTFpE E RlEjT H TjSlMQP A gR deatPoti N s tar "ep AToftr e T?S E AlRlS MjP QS gjg Aiolsi lemEMTiAkiT 61 Desires eagerly 62 The armpit 64 Explosion 66 Pipe Joint 67 Huge feline 69 Curved moldings 70 Church council DOWN 1 Halt 2 God of flocks 3 Sloth I 2 3 4 I J5 b 7 8 9 i5 g IL l: Z 51 52 52 77 Zl-tZZ-prr1 5T r S5-- 6T IMstr. by CmlUd great beyond that looms after each commencement, the student will be spread all over like a bunch of fall en leaves, and just about as stable. Those manifestations of a student spirit and community interest En tertainment Committee, IRC, CPU, OSCD, Grail, publications, coopera tives, Sound and Fury, et cetera will crumble and fall apart. The things that today hold the student body together like the Book Ex change, Graham Memorial, Memo rial hall will no longer be significant in student life. In other words, the whole busi ness will disintegrate and become nothing. , What is anybody doing about it? Nothing. Damn few are even wor ried. Hobie McKeever's Social com mittee is the closest thing to a cor rective agency so far as this prob lem is concerned, but even it shoots about 359 degrees wide of the solu tion. The Social committee is a very fine organization indeed for spon soring dances, but so is the Grail. The Social committee is a very fine organization indeed for Sunday Night Sessions, but Sound and Fury might do a better job if it were incorporated into the organizations falling directly and financially un der student government as it should be. Otherwise, the Social committee isn't doing much of anything. (This is not a criticism of the committee as it is now established. McKeever's done a fine job.) There is nothing now on the cam pus to analyze the details of this problem and correct it. Nothing could be more necessary. People had better get to thinking about it . . . people like . Bennett, Peck, Smith, Gambill, Osborne, Harward, Snyder, Webb, Frankel, Meyer, Car ruth, etc. They had better start thinking right now. How come there's a great, big, useless, ugly iron fence at 215 Pitts boro street when there's a scrap drive on? H.C. COOL WEATHER Calls for HOT CHOCOLATE Come to SUTTON'S 4 Attired 6 Hebrew ascetlea 7 Musical note 8 Large tub 9 English public school 10 Street (abbr.) 11 Western Indians 12 Braid trim 13 Stalk of Cower 15 Thus 19 Colleague 22 Code of conduct 23 Kind of waltz (pi.) 25 Printer's measure 26 Man's nickname 27 Revolver 29 Tasteless from disuse 32 Portents 34 Chemical suffix 35 Girl's name 36 Pertinent 38 Vase 43 Salt of nitric acid 45 Probity 48 Prefix: twice 49 Pronoun 62 Enthralled 53 Female horse 54 torage lace for corn 68 Vehicle with runner 69 Jewish month 60 Fall behind 62 Gone by 63 Arabia (abbr.) 65 Compass point 68 Within Feature Syndicate, lac.
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