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.- r SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1942 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL Students Not Ignored When fighting a war, these things become more important: In the welter of accusations and cross denials to the effect that student control and student government is slipping away, there is a pertinent fact that has long been overlooked. The fact: through all the trying days of confusion and momentus decision that faced and are still facing the University adminis tration and faculty, students have been regularly consulted and sought out in an effort to determine what they thought about the changes, what the changes meant to them, and what they thought ought to be done about it. The result has been that students have attended the once closed gate of faculty meetings, that representative student groups have been asked to meet with faculty committees dealing with pertinent and pressing changes, that other representative groups have been called into South Building's offices to discuss the things that were happening. To be certain, this condition is just as it should 'be, and on the face of it there is nothing earth-shaking about having stud ents consulted when considering changes that will affect stud ents. But the very solid fact remains that in no other University in the land that we know of are students afforded this privilege. When pressure is on and swift action is needed there is an inevit able tendency to steam-roller your way through the "democratic processes" whenever and wherever possible. That the faculty and administration have not attempted to do this as yet, is a compliment to the student body. It further re flects an attitude on the part of some that-they believe sincerely what they're teaching. That is gratifying something to think about. Small World America Lost Important Battle of Ballots at Polls By Harvey Segal Those -who have studied America during past wars will probably agree that wartime elections are as im portant, if not more so, that military battles. Last week America lost a battle of ballots, not bullets but . nevertheless an important battle. No, we're not referring to Repub lican gains in Congress or in the states. To judge men by their party labels in these times would be super fluous. We are referring to out-and-out-win-the-war candidates, the type who never belonged to the American First Committee or played politics with the draft, or spent the greater part of their time thinking of new ways to shackle labor and make taxes more regressive. For the main part, we didn't get those win-the-war candidates in this off year election. Look at the record: Ham Fish, indicted by the Fed eral Grand jury for his connections with certain Nazi propaganda out fits, reelected. Senator Wayland Brooks, of Illinois, reelected for another six years. Brooks, a notorious America Firster, recently said, "When the cas ulty lists start coming in, American mothers will be glad that I tried to keep America out of war." To mention a few more: Ste phen Day, the representative who wrote a book for the Nazi publish ing house, Flanders Hall, was re elected. In New York, William Barry, who publicly stated that Laura Ingalls, convicted Nazi spy, "ought to be in Congress," was sent back to the House for another term. Don't think that the American elec torate is cool toward the war, or that they prefer defeatist Congressmen. Such a conclusion would be unjust as well as a gross over-simplification. Defeatist candidates were elected be cause the win-the-war forces failed to bring the issues to the people in a sharp and challenging manner. In New York we have a good in stance of this. Here, Bennett was squeezed through as Democratic candidate over the win-the-war, New' Dealer, Senator Mead. Instead of putting up a battle for Mead, Presi dent Roosevelt, reluctantly endorsed, Bennett, whose record is not entirely free of the Christian Front blemish. As a result, a large bloc of 400,000 voters marked their ballots for Dean v Alfange, America nLabor Party candidate, and thereby registered their protests against both Dewey and Bennett, neither of whom brought forth a clear-cut win-the-war program. In the Washington state elections : Representatives , Coffee, Magnuson, and Jackson running on a victory program and calling for an imme mediate second front, won by over whelming majorities. Yet their fel low Democratic running mates, Hill and Smith, failed tctake a strong win-the-war position and were de feated. In the same state, former Senator C. C. Dill declared that "the war is not an issue" and was swamped. Post-Mortem, Conclusion, and Suggestions. America needs a real win-the-war ' Congress, the kind that, regardless of party lines will devote itself to the gigantic task of winning the war. In this election we've taken a step back ward, and not forward in achieving such a body. The first step in the right direction will be taken when people begin to force candidates to take war posi tions, and not hush-hush-the war is sues in a maze of local, and rela tively petty, issues. Machine politi cians can be forced to do this and they will if they know it's the only road to victory at the polls. Mayor Kelley of Chicago, of Kelley-Nash machine fame, supported Rep. Ray See AMERICA, page S Wht Wax What Went, What Goes !l!!!lll!!!ll!l!!l!llil!IIIII!l!lllll!ll!!!lll!llllllll!IIIIIII!ill!l!llllll!l!!l!!IIIISII!I!lll!!ll!!!ll!l New War College May Save University; Suspension of Mag Temporarily Postponed In all the confusion and indefiniteness surrounding what will happen to the University when the War De partment drafts American colleges, jreassuring news came out in Chapel Hill. On Friday Dean House announc ed that the new College of War Training has been set up. Planned for months, the College can be the one agency for readjusting the University to the devastating change which is only a matter of time. Indefinite yet because the conditions under which it must operate are indefinite, the College already em bodies good factors .which will help under any circum stances. Some of them: Lengthening of the Pre-Induction course to one or two years for 16 and 17-year-olds. Permission to students with sufficient hours but not all required courses to get. a special A. B. or M. A. degree from the College. Most important, Arts and Sciences departments will provide special courses, insuring to a degree that hu manities studies may be continued despite the whole sale conversion to specialist war training. To head the College was picked Dean F. F. Bradshaw whose close participation in negotiations between the leading educators and the War Department well quali fies him for helping Carolina to meet its first challenge for really total war. A year of turmoil in student publications got a start in the form of a kick in the pants when Harvey Hamil ton proposed a bill in the Student legislature to suspend the Carolina Magazine for the duration in order to turn its money over to the Daily Tar Heel. Mag men immediately organized opposition to the measure, intensifying a campaign to crystallize student ment placing the control of education in the hands of a opinion behind the magazine a trick they feel will be i5man board, who for the most part, according to the accomplished by acquainting the public with the facts in jaW) must be divorced from the field of education, and the case. must be members of business and finance. . went off as scheduled with a cumbersome 110 nominees, almost one-fifth the entire class. Standing student political organizations have scrup ulously avoided obvious contact with frosh elections, but this year some of the freshmen took matters into their own hands. Dragging voters into the Book Ex, plying them with cokes, the nominees went even further. Several candidates took ballots from voters, marked them, dropped them into the ballot box, went about their business. One candidate is known to have pulled this stunt nine times. The Student Council tardily warned freshman,1 ignor ant of precedent, that such practices were entirely out of keeping with the Carolina way of conducting elections and took steps to see that no repetitions occured in the run-offs scheduled next week. It was thought by council members that this repri mand would be sufficient and a guess was hazarded that the freshman, now aware of our customs in elections, would conspire to vote against the candidates that achieved the run-offs with said tactics. Greatest fear expressed was that more sensitive and conscientious members of the class would perhaps ig nore the importance of campus self-government for the remainder of their sojourn on the campus because of the first bitter taste. To remove such people from contact with campus politics, it was worried, would have had results in that sincere interest in the general welfare might give way to personal selfishness with the socially-conscious voter frightened away by the "dirty politics, that's all it is", angle. Written into the organic law last week by an over whelming two-to-one vote was a constitutional amend- Bruised, much battered, the Mag will publish late next week since transportation difficulties have stalled the covers somewhere on the spreading roadway of the Southern Rail System. Its editors claim that it will be funny, but dynamic. A combination yet to be achieved. Closing down on the entire problem and affecting all publications is the fog of confusion resulting over uncertainty-concerning pending decisions of the War Pro duction Board on engraving materials and paper. The Yackety-Yack, extravagant user of vital copper and zinc for engravings is subject to deep cuts in their metal allotments by the Charlotte engraving company and factors beyond anyone's control. In view of the uncertainty, the legislature and the CPU, which was to have conducted a poll of student thought on the issue, may delay any action on the issue until manpower, materials and monetary unknowns can crystallize into fact. This would assure, at least, the publication of the magazine until the completion of the current quarter. Uncontrolled, disillusioning was the first year men's introduction to campus politics. Freshman elections CPU Round Table flli!ll!!!!!l!!!!l!llllli!!!llll!l!!l!lll!!!lilll!lll!l!llll!!!lil!lll!ll!!' The amendment was badly phrased, contained many objectionable clauses. Only when Governor Broughton interceded and promised that objeetional features to the amendment would in turn be amended was partial har mony restored. Die-hards like the University professors Knight, Coker, others, continued to oppose the amend ment. Frank Graham supported the measure provided the Governor's promise was carried through. The problem becomes one of the future. Governor Brouchton has clearly committed his administration and the next General Assembly to a course of action. He has promised that the legislature would recommend the objectionable clauses, three in number, be stricken from the present constitutional law. Then the vote will again be leftto the people. But the people can not vote on the measure until the next gen eral election, two years hence. Thus educators and politicians wno backed the gov ernor's proposals have undertaken a tremendous respon sibility. They took the long road around. They have a long bitter fight ahead, and well they know they must win, if education in this state is to continue, to grow, to develop. Book Review !!l!!ll!II!i!!!ll!lIl!ll!!III!ISi!!lilll!!!l!!:ii!l!lll!!!i Coupland's Book Reveals True Story Of Cripps' Mission By Betty Perry Mr. Coupland has avoided the temptations of the majority of con emporary world-event observers. In The Cripps Mission we have neither an extensive volume of prophecies nor a shallow history of the Indian people. In The Cripps Mission we have 91 pages of what happened when Sir Stafford Cripps, as British statesman, went to Delhi with a Draft Declaration which promised India its freedom after the war in re turn for its immediate all-out parti cipation in the war-effort. For the newspaper reader who al ways was a little vague on "just what did happen," The Cripps Mis sion is the answer. The Draft Decla ration is reprinted word for word and Mr. Coupland analyzes it by telling what the British hoped for by each statement and the reaction which was arounsed by each state ment in the Indian leaders. Many have wondered just why the mission was unsuccessful and why Sir Stafford did not stay a little longer to try and win over the In dians. Reginald Coupland explains when he tells us that the basic pre mise of the Draft Declaration was the impossibility of instituting an in dependent Indian government in war-time due to the dissention and inexperience which would of necessi ty make a smoothly running govern ment a matter of decades, if not of centuries. At first, so' Mr. Coupland says, the Indians too accepted that premise. Only on the last day, as many had relaxed believeing an ac ceptance of the Draft Declaration certain, did the Congress demand na tional independence. Why the sudden demand for inde pendence, why the granting of that independence was impossible for the British, is all explained. Yet, to Mr. Coupland, although the Draft Declaration was not adopted by the Indians, the mission in itself was something of a success. Sir Staf ford Cripps gained for Britian the trust of the Indians by the way in which he conducted himself and par ticularly by his frankness. All in all, Reginald Coupland's im pressions on The Cripps Mission were worth his recording . . . and worth your reading. Here Is Factual Background For Communist Minor's Talk SUNDAY MONDAY 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. ' IPKtSINTID FOR NATIONAL ABVTIWa BY 1941 Member 1942 National Advertising Service Inc. . , tiiii r College Publishers Representative Associated GolIe6iaie Press 42omad.sonave. newyork.n.y. f Chicvo bostob Loi Aaauss San Fbarcisco "Rttpkv TTarward Editor Bob Hoke Bill Stanbaok. Henry ZAytoun.. .Managing Editor BuMnees Manager -Circulation Manager 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 Schulmaii, 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. . r TM1 XZ7 1. Jr1- IgSZSSTctoSlZ EaTter, Phyllis Yates, Paul Finch, Herb Bodman. th. . conservative policies of the A. F. Charles Howe, Don Atran. . of L. Its fundamental aim was to Photographers: Carl Bishopric, Tyler Nourse. . - unite all skilled and unskilled work- Local Advertising Managers: Bob Bettmann, Marvin Rosen. ers for the purpose of overthrowing AnvFRTisiKO Staff: Bettv Bronson. Bebe Castleman, Betty Booker. Thad aP"ahsm and rebuilding society on 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 x Godwin. By John Sands Editor's Note: The following ma terial on the American Communist party is presented to provide a back ground for Robert Minor's speechjto morrow night. Minor is assistant to Earl Broivder, Communist party General Secretary. Most early Communist societies began in America with a fanatic de votion to the ideal and usually be came not only anti-religious but ec centric divergences from the original Communist principles. At the mid dle of the last.centry German immi grants began to acquaint America with the doctrines of the two famous7 German Communists, Carl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Their ideology only gradually became known to America but from the start it ap pealed strongly to many who pro fessed its belief in Europe and came to America to practice it. During the latter half of the nine teenth century the principle action was the struggle between anarchism and Marxism, resulting in the First International in London in the year 1864. During this period the mos.t prominent of the Socialist organiza tion were the Knights of Labor which gained recognition through its strug gle with the A. F. of L., then declined. In-1877 the Socialist Labor Party was organized and 20 years later the Social Democrats of America was founded. Finally in 1901 the Social ist Party of America was organized. The most prominent of all at the time was the Industrial Workers of the World (I. W. W.). This party was organized in 1905 in Chicago under the leadership of Eugene Debs, Haywood, Trautman, and others, as protest against craft unionism and News: WALTER KLEIN FOR THIS ISSUE: Sports: WESTY FENHAGEN a socialist basis. Later, I. W. W. split into the' an-ardcho-syndicalist Chicago branch and socialist Detroit branch. Being anti-militaristic when the war broke out it was not only accused of draft evasion but its most eminent leader jailed with hundreds of other mem bers. It was accused of sabotage, syn dicalism and formenting German paid strikes. With these grave ac cusations against the I. W. W., it be comes easy to understand its break down. But fundamentally, it was caused by the impossibility of obtain ing cohesive action because of the great numbers of migratory workers in it, internal dissension and difficul ties in unionizing workers. With the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, all socialist parties not only grew rapidly but became pa triotic to their governments with the exception of those in Italy and the United States which were openly in opposition. However, the opposition amounted to little direct action. Ac cording to Earl Browder, the Social ist party opposing the war gave lit tle indication of a line of action for the masses. After the Socialist stand against the Russian Revolution and the Com munist International, the Commun ist Party was formed on September 1, 1919, with the Communist Labor Party of America. However, dur ing the next 10 years the Communist Party was chiefly concerned with the mastering of the Marxian-Leninist theories and their application to American problems. During this time dissension broke out within its ranks Tjy the followers of Leon Trotsky and Burkharin (called .the Lovestone group). The former group was con sidered anti-communist and ex pelled in 1928 and the other, backing the Hoover's "permanent prosperity" promise was objected to and was ex pelled in 192?. Though post-war America was afflicted by a period of extreme and serious unrest while great strike movements and political controversies swept the country, the Community Party newly formed and as yet not unified played little part. In 1922, when things had cooled down, the Workers Party of Amer ica was openly and legally formed bringing together all Communists into one body. Assuming the leader See COMMUNISTS, page s mm mm mwm amits . ... nit itii$ i Si O 4 1 WW 11 1 I J 111 ii'uM.iiiwtfiii! Al NOVELTY "PRIVATE SMITH TJA" LATEST NEWS TUES. WED. THUR. FRI. SAT. jffS! AMERICAN DEV.LSJ JOHN CARROT.T, in ffAIM, PAT O'BRIEN i THE NAVY GEORGE MURPHY COJIES THROUGH"
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