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WEDNESDAY,' OCTOBER 14, 1942 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL Don't Vote Don't vote! If you don't give a damn what happens to you, nobody will. See if .we care. But just to show you why you ought to make it your business to vote, here's a few reasons : , Yesterday the campus was supposed to vote on some amend ments to the Legislature setup. Of the few that did go to the polls less knew what they were voting for. This was not the fault of the Legislature. 1 Mimeographed copies of the measures were at the polls. The Daily Tar Heel has carried many more articles than the story deserved just so that you would understand what the score was- pass the amend ments, support student government ; ignore them, ignore student government. You didn't read them. You, who should be, probably aren't reading this. No matter. When some totalitarian takes the food from your mouth, buries your thoughts in your head with a hatchet, carries your children away to shoot at other children, don't come to us. We told you so. Campus Congress Student Legislature Grew Fast, Strong, Important By Jimmy Wallace After experimentation with stu dent government for 145 years, fierce debate for and against self-rule of the students early in the spring of 1938 the Student Legislature was born. Conceived and controlled by the students, the Legislature opened up a new vista of student government possibilities and gave new life to the none-too-strong campus governing body, the Student Council. As originally formed, the Legisla ture was automatically headed by the vice-president of the student body. First speaker was Bill Hendrix, sec ond was Jack Fairley. For them the Legislature was a parliamentary piaytning. memcient ana lnenec tive, it threatened to fail at the start. Student leaders saw the number of ex officio members grow, saw dawdling class officers show their in competence in the Legislature as well . as the class organizations, set out to do something about the matter. Strong Men A, new and powerful constitution providing for the election of a speak ft er to serve in that capacity alone was put before the student body. The con . stitution passed, and Bill Cochrane, .University law student,, became the first full-time speaker. The still wobbly Legislature had a problem thrust in its lap that year. It had to cut its teeth on the very bitter teething-ring of abolition of the Buccaneer. Abolition passed. Tar an' Feathers began. The legislature began to function. Last fall came Terry Sanford to the speaker's platform. Also a law student, Sanford led the fight for stu dent fees to be controlled entirely by students until he left for the FBI. This battle continued under the leadership of Ferebee Taylor, was partly won by last spring. As the situation now stands, the Legislature, under a compromise agreement, has a modified control over a portion of the student fees. This means that it can allot sums of money for operational expenses to campus organizations such as the 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 fte Batlp 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. w, ePRBSENTD FOR NATIONAL ADVBRTI8INO BY 1941 ' Member 1942 Plssociated GoUe6iate Press BUCKY 1 1 AR WARD 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: BOB LEVIN CPU, IRC, and the Carolina Work shop. Critical Victory Greatest battle the budding or ganization had to wage was the dance cut bill. At that time campus dances entailed an expenditure of approxi mately $3500. The proposed bill would cut it to $1500. When the Legislature met, a surprise motion cut dance expenditures to $700 plus $150 for concessions. Campus discus sion, if it had been enlivened before ' the bill, now explodedin a mass of pros and cons. Despite heavy opposi tion, the Legislature's decision held and the youngest campus govern mental organization chalked up an other score. Here and Now This year the Legislature, headed by W. J. Smith of Charlotte, runs up against problems bigger than ever before. Assuming responsibil ity in a University at wor, the group has the recreation problem, housing shortage, and war time social changes to cope with. In order to keep up with a fast decentralizing student body and to keep in step with the changing status of campus affairs, the Legislature must revise a portion of its consti tution. The revision will consist of three principal parts: The measure to change the number of representatives means that all students, either in town or dormitories, will have a voice in stu dent government. This will help combat the scattering of the stu dents. In proposing an amendment re quiring a 25 per cent vote of the stu dent body sufficient to ratify an amendment, the Legislature lays the ground for quick adaptation of the constitution if some critical issue came up. By allowing students to veto a Legislature bill with only the ma jority of a 25 per cent student vote, the Legislature puts itself in a posi tion where it must stay on its toes and be acquainted with every issue. All these changes will be necessary in a wartime student government. Mat National Advertising Service, Inc. 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Chicato Boston Lot Ansilm San Fmmcisco Editor Managing Editor Business Manager ..Circulation Manager ISSUE: Sports: WESTY PENHAGEN wttl across 1 Measure of land - 5 Painting in general 8 Extinct birds 12 Reclined IS Visualize It Large bird 15 Islands in Caribbean 17 Desire eagerly 19 Bumps Into 20 Mada sound UK sheep 21 Part of motor 23 Small bird 24 Father 28 Carouse 28 Lease 81 High mountain 33 Military embankment 35 Female deer 36 Quantity of paper 38 Fort 40 Pronoun 41 Cut off quickly 43 Claw 45 Things to curdle milk 48 Long-vlsored caps 81 Foreigners 62 Genus of herbs 53 Layer 54 Cause of Cleopatra's death. 56 Part of fork ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE SIPIA tau mop lIeji OApr" 57 Organs on head 58 Kind of deer 69 Comfort DOWN 1 Moslem teacher 2 Walking stick 2 Is M S lb 7 I 3 9 liO III - 1 , !LH2 ZL 24 25 26 27 28 23 0 Dlstr. by United Needed - Clear War Aims By Howard Ennis Major drawback to the United Nations today is that too many people are not sure what we are fighting for. Outside of the Atlan tic Charter with its vague generali zation, what does the cause of the United Nations hold for the people of China, of India, of Russia, for the common people of every country? With no positive plan of our own, we united only in a negative alli ance against Germany and Jagan. Without concrete aims, we may win this war, never the battle to avoid another. Germany has a very specific plan of what she will do if she can knock out Russia. She knows exactly how she will organize Europe's industry, agriculture, and slave labor to serve her wishes. We are fighting to libe rate Europe from the yoke of Nazi tyranny, and in that sense we are United Nations. But what plan do we have for re-organizing Europe after the war? What plan for forming a real League of Nations? What plan for an ' effective international police force that will be used unhesitat ingly to back up the League's de cisions? What plan have we for in suring freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom from want, and freedom from fear to all the people of the world? Such planning now would obstruct the war effort, many assert. Ob struct? On the contrary." Would a man fight better with a vague hope of improvement, or with a certain ty of specific improvements once his side has won the victory? If he knew that he and his family would have economic security, that his sons would not have to fight an other war twenty years hence. Surely a person fights best when he knows specifically for what he's fighting. Then he is eager and anx ious to end the war so he can turn his energies into the constructive execution of the plan he has already ' mapped out. There is another reason for mak ing our war aims more specific. As D. Hiden Ramsey pointed out in his University Day speech, we won the last war but lost the peace be cause we had not prepared to -make a peace on the basis of the ideals for which we had fought the war. Once the war was won, the necessity of those democratic ideals for all peoples vanished, and we strove in stead for a senseless return to "nor malcy 'r and isolation. If we cannot clearly state our war aims now, while we are united by the force of necessity, what chance will we have to make a better world after the war is oyer, and the ten dency to disillusionment, cynicism, and opportunistic materialism sets in? Suppose, on the other hand, that millions of young men marched 3 Horseman 4 Newspaper executive 6 Dolt 6 Musical note 7 Small duck 8 Patch up 9 Left out 10 Seal with wax 11 Wooed 16 Acid compound 18 Part of tennis match 20 Military commissions 23 Completed 24 Perfect golf score 25 Malt beverage 27 The Swan Girl 29 Immediately SO Pipe Joint 32 Large wicker basket 34 Fables ( 37 Diggers 39 Marked with spots 42 Inscribe 44 Water wheel 45 Price 46 Lamb's pen name 47 Despotic ruler 49 Religious women 50 Widgeon 52 Mimlo 55 Thus jg lgjgVg-L-igpupS F"lglEJAITp EfejT A T EjSQTjogQ rtnpiE AOffig6Ei AJNlTLSnENfIA rni5nTrMo t g t i fete mm i sCSa AS!PI I IREteOA LIAS ITTlTlElgof MS efgi Feature Syndicate, Inc. Said a lumberman named Mr. Wood, I we'd work just as Hard as we could, And all of tiB bougKi The, Bonds that we ought We'd dispose of Hen? Hit ler for good!" Help your county resell ita 2 wr . . wax' 000a uudu ana JWii TWIT TOUMtfJ W1U UW War. Chop 10 off your income and invest it in War Savings Bonds. V. S. Treasury Depti away to this war, knowing that vic tory meant the automatic operation of plans for reconstruction, econom ic security, and future world peace. Who, after the war, would blatantly suggest that we discard those plans and ideals for which thousands of boys died. But what plans can be formula ted that everyone will agree to? A number of concrete war aims have already been proposed which should gain overwhelming approval. Those aims will be presented in future art ticles for inspection. All we have to do is to make up our minds that we really are fight ing for the things we say we're fighting for, and begin now to show the world that we mean what we say. This much is certain: When war aims say maybe; when war aims say perhaps; when war aims say we don't know, they cease to say any thing. We need to begin now to make a clear, unequivocal statement of what we are fighting for, dying for. On the Hour ... 3: 30 YY business staff meets, 204 Graham Memorial. 5:30 Coed Senate meets, Gerrard hall. 7 -30 Intertown council meets, Dean Roland Parker's office. FOR VICTORY BUY BONDS 1 yfeCfl V', I L' VfJrP J III 5 tni i-jwyw.jgTTJi WW . - X 1 it Stet Campus Leaders Not Guilty Of Columnist's Accusations By Ernie Frankel The "Weary Wisher" had his say yesterday; he dipped into the dis gusting brew of inefficiency, and la dled it out damning the adminis tration that cooked it and the cam pus leaders who kept it warm.- It was a well-written, frank column that Carruth signed his name to; but it was lacking in one essential TRUTH. Yes, Carolina is in a helluva situ ation. Students are beginning to feel the first sense of not belonging, of living "away" from the University. They walked in several weeks ago and stumbled over red tape spun by administrative blindness. They look ed for rooms that Roy Armstrong had said would be here. They ate meals in drugstores and cafes where prices and cockroaches were equally intolerable. So, give 'em hell, Carruth; tell the student officers that they haven't thought about the decentralization problem. Inform Bert Bennett and Steve Peck and Sam Gambill that they haven't done anything to change the situation. Point at the PU board for closing its dollar-marked eyelids. Challenge "Reverend" Smith for heading an unconscious legislature. It's so damn easy to criticize, pub licize, venomize. It's so simple to foam at the typewriter. But where's the research, Carruth? Where's the TRUTH? You're right. There's been too much dawdling in South building, too much disregard of reality and tomor row. Today many , of those mistakes are being corrected; the others are too vivid in red ink to change. But . . . Why attack the Student council? Long before the average student had put his bathing suit in moth balls, the council and its Stu dent Planning hoard was quite aware of the problem," held long meetings discussing the same bawling infant The vieary !W isher Perhaps our best friend on the campus these hectic days is the grey squirrel in the Harris tweed jacket. He agrees with us most of the time. But yesterday we had a comradely disagreement. He stopped us in the drizzle. He seemed most comfortable. "Heard you went to the big city," he said grinning. "Sure did. Feel like hell, now, too." I said. "Got greetings for ya." "Zat right? Who is it?" "Your cousin in Central Park said he wanted to know how the rebel members of the clan were getting along. He said why the hell didn't you answer his underground mes sage." "I notice you are avoiding with care any mention of the gridiron clas sic. Your story was lousy, too. Some body tossed an old Tar Heel my way." "Sorry about the story. The game was sorta disappointing. We shoulda -played a little better." "My cousin will be very nasty a boutit." ' "Do you want to hear about my trip or don't you?" "Shoot." "People in New York are charac ters. All of them characters. We talked to a doorman at a dime-a-dance-joint. He got acirgarette from us. We talked to a cop. He was very tough. We talked to a lot of people. They all wanted a drink. So we went and drank some for them." Drug Store Rules In 1854 "Store will be opened promptly at 6 a.m. and remain open until 9 p.m. the year 'round. Store must not be opened on the Sabbath day unless absolutely necessary and . then only for a few minutes." "Any employee who is in the habit of smoking Spanish cigars, getting shaved at a barber shop, going to dances and other places of amusement, will most surely give 1 his employer reason to suspect his integ rity and all around honesty." "Each employee must attend Sunday School every Sunday. Men employees are given one evening a week for courting purposes, and two if they go to prayer meeting regularly. After J. 4 hours of work in the store, the remaining leisure time must be spent in reading good Literature." ((The above was handed to us by one of the oldest druggists in the country. Although we are the oldest firm in Chapel Hill, we do not abide strictly by the above store rules.) Eubanks Drug Co. DEPENDABLE DRUGGISTS SINCE 1892 that Carruth gave birth to yester day morning. Investigations were conducted; representatives of every phase of campus activity were ques tioned; recommendations went out to the administration. Somewhere be neath a pile of correspondence on any desk in South building, that re port and those requests are buried. Perhaps the Council and its planning board were asleep, but, if so, they somnambulated into remarkable con clusion. Examination of those recom mendations, Carruth, will show that if they had been accepted, if they had . been acted upon, the stinking mess we're going to have to wade through would have been swept up. And ... Why sneer at the PU board? To adjust decentralization, to draw students closer to the Univer sity, the board authorized a tri weekly Tar Heel for summer school, is making plans today to increase scope of publications, is managing its finances so as to assure the main tenance of past standards for the duration. So W. J. Smith and the legislature are unaware. . . . The docket of that student group is crowded right now with legisla tion which is aimed at checking de centralization. Committees have been at work on these bills since school began; and they should be law soon. Accuse the boys of pettiness, of taking themselves too seriously; but don't word-lynch them for apathy. Carruth, you're right about the fumbling, the inefficiency, the boon doggling and backsliding on the part of many administrators. You're right about the problem, its threat, its meaning. But here's that one essential a too weary wisher forgot, the TRUTH: For a change, most of the boys who won the Spring elections are on the ball. By Hayden Carruth and Sylvan Meyer "So that's the reason for the shape of your story." "We saw four of the most gorge ous women in the world and two mil lion of the ugliest. Also a couple of the squirrels up there were all right. At any rate they were better than the women." "They always are," said the squirrel, burnishing his claws on the lapel of his tweed packet." "The big town was very dark. But we had an awful big time. We drove through Harlem waving a Confed erate flag. But now that we're back everyone wants to know how we got the gas, the time, and the money." 1 "Well, skwirl," I said, "what do you think of New York?" "I'm gettin' to that. I don't like it. You have to move too fast. There are too many people and far too many squirrels for the amount of nuts. The ground in Central Park grows lousy acorns and the tall buildings on Central Park West cut off the afternoon sun. The town is o. k. to visit but I wouldn't like to live there." "But squirrel," I said. "Don't wrinkle your button nose at me. How about the good music at Nick's, the atmosphere of the village, the steaks at Gallagher's. . .the food up there is fine. The likker is well mixed. We had a great time. We missed six classes. It was a great weekend. Especially that steak." "Nuts," said the squirrel." V V ! 1 r I i i
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