Newspapers / Daily Tar Heel (Chapel … / Nov. 5, 1942, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1942 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL, i : -1 f .if i n 1 1 n 1 1 U ft I i Ij n S ! S f 1 i Si Is $3600 Saved Three months of work and $3600 saved for students. Since last summer Bert Bennett has worked with Brooks Williams, Barry Colby and Roy Strowd to cut out useless ex penditures from the class budgets. The $3600 will be the re sult. The committee didn't go beserk. They only followed common sense in ripping out the padding which for so many years has drained the student pocketbook. Now the money saved be fore if was collected will stay with the 2800 students in the three classes. - In the fat years and thin since the last war, campus organi zations have built up a pyramid of expenses on the basis of nothing, but conspicuous activity. It has been the thing to throw the biggest dances yes, to put out the gaudiest publica tion yet, to go on the longest debating tour yet, to have the biggest name speaker down yet. The dance expenses have been cut, so have the publications, so has the Debate Council, and thepPU and IRC have had to reduce, although not enough, their spending for the big figures from Washington. So a student government now holding the purse strings has the chance to go ahead now and prune the conspicuous activi ties where the growth has been lush and green and publicized and valueless. ' That it took a war to make us see the waste is regrettable. But now at least we don't have to fumble for a yardstick. "Can it help the University in the war?" treads Last week we were all getting set for a trip to Raleigh to see the State game. The losing team that day was to have been State. It didn't turn out that way and immediately many of us began to refer to the West Raleigh institution as State college and N. C. State. "The very idea of losing to State college," we would say. "And then to go and lose to N. C. State," others of us would remark. Nobody ever got around to calling State State. Many of us spent our spare time taking cracks at the prune-voiced announcer. It was our best spot for face-saving. Our only other way out was the S.C or the N.C.S. method. I wondered just why State college should be more deri sive than plain State and the old roommate, Bruce Keesler, came through with the answer. He point ed out that in the movies the big game of the year is always with State and that the name State car ries with it prestige and respect. "We were big-hearted enough back in the thirties to call the defeated Wolfpack State. We were willing to give the boys that much credit be cause it made us look better. Now we resort to any tactics we can find, most effective of which i3 to move State out of the State class. 'What with coffee rationing in sight there is going to be real meaning to the old Maxwell House ad, "Good to the last drop." Momo Mahoney, the pride of Scotland, has already begun to dream about his diploma and to make his future plans accordingly. The old Mo took a course in ad vertising last year and it must have had a strong effect on. him. You may remember a few years back an advertising scheme used by filling stations when we had filling stations instead of just staggered restrooms. About 500 yards from Ed's Service Station you would see a sign saying "500 yards to Ed's." A similar sign was also place at the 400 yard marker and on down the list. When you got to Ed's, there R c Bath' 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. 1941 Member 1942 Plssociated CbUe6iate Press bucky harward 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. .EPORTERS: James Wallace, Larry Dale, 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, Tiny Hutton, Sam Whitehall, Gloria Caplan, Pat Shartle, Lee Bronson, Mason Whitney. Sports Editor: Westy Fenhagen. 'Night Sports Editor: Bill Woestendiek. Sports Reporters: Charles Easter, Phyllis Yates, Paul Finch, Herb Bodman, Charles Howe, Don Atran. !" Photographers: Carl Bishopric, Tyler Nourse. Local Advertising Managers : Bob Bettmann, Marvin Rosen. Durham Representatives : Charlie Weill. Bob Covington. Advertising Staff: Betty Bronson, Bebe Castleman, Betty Booker, Thad Carmichael, Edith Calvard, Blanche Crocker, Henry Petuske, Larry Riv kin, Fred Brooks, Jean Herrmana, Loomis Leedy, Al Grosner. Circulation Staff: Rachel Dalton, Larry Goldrich, Tommy Dixon, Bob Godwin. FOR THIS News: DAVE C. BAILEY By Stuart Mclver was a big sign saying you had got to Ed's. A Collier's cartoonist capitalized on the idea by showing a sign that went "50 yard to Joe." Using ever smaller intervals he sadistically brought you through a series of pic tures that left you wondering when you were going to see Joe. Finally a lad turned up labelled Joe. He was standing by the side of the highway waving his thumb. Something of the sort also hap pened in the late Ituffin dorm. Shel don Dugger was then manager, and a civic-minded occupant used a little blue chalk on the hall walls to put across his point. First sign said "25 feet to Dugger." The signs went on etc. until you came to a piece of paper that read "Dugger. Do not Knock. Walk right in and make yourself at home." Dugger erased the chalk. Where the old Mo fits in is here. After the war he plans to have the diploma properly placed in his pala tial mansion. In 1&'50, if you visit the old Mo, you will see the big fel low reclining on a couch, smoking a five-cent seegar and refereeing a water-polo match. In the corner, reading the Atlantic Monthly, will be a squirrel who is clad in a jack et that looks strangely like a Harris tweed. Above Mo you will see a blue arrow. It will point to the next room. You will follow the ar row until you finally get there. And before you on a peak in Darien will be old Mo's diploma. The spot should become a modern Mecca. On the Hour . . . 3:00 Reporters meet, DTH office. 4:30 Phi Dance committee meets, small lounge, Graham Memorial. 5:00 WSSF committee meets, Grail room, Graham Memorial. 8:00 Di debaters tryout, Di hall. 8:30 Marine reserves meet, Bing ham 103. MI9tNUD rOH NATIONAL AOVBRTIWNO BY National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative AZO Madison Ave. New York. N. Y. Chicapo Boston Los Ansblm Sam fmncisco Editor ....Managing Editor Business Manager ..Circulation Manager ISSUE: Sports: WESTY FENHAGEN flwrr COLLEGE DURING TO ' ' - MAMl HAD BUT Vl " 1 iftfUt ITS FOUNDER. Vf J I Li" I CHAS. COCKE PRESIDED FROM I846TO 1901 HIS DAUGHTER. MATTY L. COCKE SERVED -FROfA 1901 TO 1935 - THE TERM iS2AMPDirAMICIUr f-tiMbiMvrviwui IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN FIRST USED BY WITHERS POON, PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY IN 1781 Weary Wisher tll!llllj!llillllll!ll!llll!lill!llii;illllll!lll!!l!l!l!!lll 'What's All This Talk About the CarolinaMag 9 I am not writing this column as an impartial observer of campus trends. To keep anyone from tying up what I say here with the fact that I am editor of the magazine, I will do it myself. If that influences your interpretation of what I have to say on the mag issue, it is what I expect and it cannot be avoided. The fol lowing is fact and not opinion. In class yesterday a coed and I were writing notes to each other on the mag question. The series of notes follows. I am not making up this series, but the young lady does not wish me to state her name. I'll call her MISS X. MISS X: Sylvan, what's all this talk about the Carolina Mag?" ME: Legislature feels cut neces sary to save the DTH. They aren't at all familiar with the complications of publication set-ups, but neverthe less are calling a campus poll to see what the students want. I know that many students want a lot more spicy humor but I think the mag should also present some fine stuff along with the humor. We are plan ning a big fight to save the. mag. We think the proposed bill awfully drastic in view of the problem they t want to solve and think the PU Board can solve it better. Want to help us fight? MISS X: Would love to. Honest Sylvan, it seems to me that too much is being done too quickly. If the mag isn't anymore, along with a lot of other things, Carolina is going to be almost as bad as just any old school. It's already changed and I don't think it's right. We like the mag. We look forward to seeing it come out and from all I've heard we want it and wait and see if we don't keep it. ME: Of course, it was unfortunate that the mag couldn't have made a better impression on some of the students. We didn't give it quite enough publicity. Also we knew little about putting it out. They should like our November issue it is practically all humor. Will be out about the 10th. I think the mag will ' get progressively better. Hayden and I didn't know much about Mags until this issue. I'm a newspaperman es sentially. Thanks for all you can do. MISS X: Sylvan, I get so darn mad when a few people to whom it doesn't matter at all start some thing like this for personal reasons, then say it's our "patriotic duty to do thus 'n so," get people all stirred up and excited, and then get what they wanted in the beginning. It was a little enough matter, but that's what happened in regard to coed hours and everything else that will be changed from now on. We're sick of it, aren't you ? I know the answer to that one. ME: I'll bet you do. It would be a shame to kill the mag that way and I'm not saying that because I'm edi tor. The folks who like it and the ones who write for it deserve it as a medium. The ' Yackety-Yack this morning published the fact that they would take no more pictures until January that's because their en f gravers are not sure that they can get metal they might have to cut down. Certainly the financial prob lem can be solved with a less drastic step than abolition. Just as we were I: f WHEN TUP PRPDJT IKin iMRCMfd DR. BESSIE C.RANDOLPH STARTED WER.TERIA. "GRANDDADDY " SERIES LONGEST FOOTBALL RIVALRY IS THE FAMOUS LAFAYETTE -LEHIGH SERIES WHICH BEGAN IN 1884. THEy HAVE PLAYED 75 GAMES i f. . .m,tr JOHN the Mag: Will Be Out In 7 Days Read: "DOGS VS. CATS" A thoro and corny analysis of Carolina Guys and Gals. beginning to develop as a college and as a magazine, and just as some of the frowned-on rah-rah was be ing replaced with good sense this had to happen. MISS X: I'm not very good at let ter writing in spite of practising in class but there are plenty of people in Spencer and between us we will get a letter composed, O. K. ? At this point the bell rang. The next dialogue occurred this morning. MISS X: I was talking to some people yesterday who were all in favor of abolition and putting a Sun day supplement in the Tar Heel. Quite a few people say it has to go sooner or later, why not now? -Still the writers here wonder what they're going to do with all their creative writing-if there is no place to pub lish it. ME: The Tar Heel cannot handle that kind of material. A supplement to the Tar Heel would cost just as much as putting out a magazine does. One magazine costs the same as five Tar Heels approximately. These people are not familiar with publi cation problems. They are mixed-up as hell the problems, not the peo ple. All student organizations will have to go eventually. Besides, the situa tion is still crystallizing. The Y-Y may not be able to get metal, by January we will know what is going on. The mag can do a definite job on the campus, and it will. The situation demands that we get at the actual reasons for the bill. Do they want to kill the mag or do they want to save what they can and solve the publications problems? I agree with the second purpose but think this a rather drastic way to go about it. At this point I left class for a meeting on another matter with Dean Bradshaw. I have the original notes of our written conversation, if any one wants to see them. That's all I have to bring out for today. Remnants ... An urgent call is going out from the Civil Service Commission her for women fliers. Those who have earned private pilot licenses are wanted "at once" for Junior Ground School Instruc tor jobs paying $2,000 a year. 1 O u 1 1 oo ! Elections are over, and you can bet your boots that America will be gin a right angle swing into total war. We at Chapel Hill have no clear conception of what this will mean. So far, we have griped about gas ration, the tire ration, and dis cussed the various meanings 'of the proposed coffee ration. By the time the nation has swung into total war, these things will be minutae. - Sara Anderson in her column yes-i terday very pointedly urged us to realize that Japan is an enemy com parable to the Nazis. Even when we can finally oust the Nazis from their entrenched positions and an armistice is signed, we will have a first class war left with the Japs. This is no game of tiddlie-winks. The sooner we realize it the less time it will take to beat the Axis. The reservists can well make up their minds that they are in the same boat as any one else. This is the last quarter of business and col lege as usual in Chapel Hill. And comparatively speaking, it has been remarkably like business and college as usual. We have sacrificed noth ing but minor rooming and eating conveniences. We wishful think as much as we ever did, as much as Chamberlain did at Munich. This war is esti mated to last at least four more years. That white Christmas is a hell of a long way off. Yes, the Germans have been stopped in Rus sia and Egypt. A few thousand Allied troops have occupied a beach head in the Solomons. In retrospect this is a positive victory. But, in ' reality it is a negative victory. True, we may begin the offensive soon. But, when we do, it may take years on the long road t6 Berlin and Tokio. A lot of who think they realize the situation don't realize it. We wishful think at every turn. If we " in college are going to sit around and fool ourselves with the advan tages we have, then what can we ex pect of those who have lesser op portunities? J.L. For many years now, Carolina students have heard of "Student Government." Yes, we have "Stu dent Government." Every spring, the greater majority of students check off names on an interminable ballot sheet and stuff it in the little box. Then, quite a number of indivi- Mi W. x You can i-. f TV h:IiM hit 29000 hours ONE second saved in each of the 106 million telephone calls made every day would add up to well over 29,000 hours would help greatly to keep lines open for vital military and war production calls. A single second is that important. So answer promptly, giving your location and name, and keep your conver sation brief. When making a call, be sure you have the right number use. the directory call Information only when it's really necessary. And please don't use Long Distance to defense areas unless your call is urgent. The Bell System has a big job to do. By saving seconds you may make room for a vital war-time call. By Jim Loeb ' duals find themselves faced with a big job. It might be that of getting out a daily newspaper or publish ing a year-book composed of count less facts, pictures, and write-ups. It might be that of enforcing the honor system or the financial head ache concerned with publications. Some attend weekly meetings of the Legislature, while others sit in on meetings of countless committees dealing with everything from sched uling athletic contests to that of advising the administration as to what courses should be offered. However, the vast body of stu dents go on completely unaware of the mechanism that is "Student Government." Much has been done to acquaint the student with the workings of the Honor System and the present Council deserves much credit on this score. But, there is the bigger job of getting the students behind student government. Many remember the session of the Legislature in Gerrard hall last year when the dance bill was pass ed under the nose of a packed house. Student interest in Student Govern ment was evidenced. But, that was last year. Not every meeting of the Legis lature is important and interesting. Many would attract no gallery. But, it might be suggested that those meetings that deal with problems that muchly effect the student body be held in a suitable place and be suitably publicized. A start was made this week when the Finance Committee of the Legislature held an open meeting on the Mag issue. A lot more of this kind of thing would make the ballot a lot more serious, make the Legislature conscious of every note. Those who attended the CPU Panel on the Negro question in Gra ham Memorial had good reason to question the value of the "big-shot" speech. At Graham Memorial, they heai?d an excellent panel of local fact-men present a comprehensive and well rounded discussion. Those who went had gotten their time's worth. Before you go to that next speech with great expecta tions, examine the man's responsi bility and then decide as to whether he'll talk openly. j J ' - lie
Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Nov. 5, 1942, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75