THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1942
PAGE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Not All Muscle
"A War Department plan for sending- thousands of uni
formed soldiers to college, with an active duty status, to meet
Army and possibly civilian requirements for specialists and other
college trained men was announced on the House floor today.
" 'Men will he selected for training under this program . . .
On the basis of previous education, results of scholastic aptitude
for military service as demonstrated during a period of service
in the Army "
Associated Press release in
yesterday's Durham Herald.
For almost two months now we have listened to the this-is-my-last-quarter-so-I-don't-care
boys' alibi for not studying.
Their exasperation for not knowing what will happen to them
is understandable. The War Department has for months been
sending out conflicting reports about what will happen to the
men in their Army enlisted Reserve Corps. The Joint Presenta
tion Board which breezed in and out of Chapel Hill last week
could tell anxious students only what had come out three months
ago, and their prediction that AERC boys would be able to finish
school is directly contradicted bya number of reliable sources.
Exasperation, then, is understandable.
The apathy is not. '
By now boys going into the armed services in the near future
from 18 and 19-year-olds on up should have understood that
it isn't a matter entirely of coordination and adrenalin. They
should know by now, particularly those who will go into the
army, that the rank and training they earn for themselves will
largely be determined by their aptitude for further scientific,
specialist pr officer training. Determination of aptitude means
written tests. And written tests mean preparation. And prepa
ration means that prior to their induction draftees and reservists
learned something in those last few months of college.
In the army, there will be no inside track on commissions
because a boy's family had money enough to send him to col
lege. It will be a competition where the best prepared get the
commissions and the mentally lazy get what's left.
For some Carolina students there is less than a month left,
for many others only one quarter more.
If they, like, they can waste the time as so many students
have done for so long. Or, they can prepare theselves to compete
to serve their country to the limit of their capacity.
What'll you have?
With Regret
It is with regret that the Daily Tar Heel can not print its
promised analysis of dormitory rooming conditions today as
announced. Premiums on space and time will prevent publica
tion of this material until Saturday morning.
ampus Grapevine
It was with much interest that we
read Columnist Frankel's report on
recent experiment of the Psychology
department. Results showed that the
Carolina student harbored a more
favorable attitude toward the Nip
ponese than toward the American
Negro, and a more favorable opinion
of the Italian than the Russian.
In this column it is legal to spec
ulate. So, it might be well to point
to the possible change in attitude
when (1) Carolina students begin
to fight and (2) when American cas
ualties are reported.
The old battle cry has been raised
on the Carolina campus again:
"Christmas dinner in Berlin." It is
true that the United Nations are
conducting a large scale operation
in North Africa the possibilities of
which are immense. If the pincer
movement is a success and if the
new territories can be organized, the
Allies will have made a tremendous
gain. But there will be no Christmas
dinner in Berlin.
. A victory in North Africa will be
a start a big start but only a start.
The African campaign can be re
garded in part as a prelude to a
Second Front in Western Europe.
Any Christmas dinner in Berlin is
a long way off for both Germans
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FOR THIS
News: WALTER KLEIN
By the Staff
and Americans for that matter.
Yesterday was Armistice Day.
This fact was practically forgotten
amidst the furor of the present con
flict. The student body missed a great
opportunity to observe Armistice
Day.
The observance should not have
been in memory of November 11,
1918. It should have been a rededi
cation to those men in Flanders Field
where poppies grow no more, and to
the struggle now going on.
Why have students been so reluc
tant to attend speeches presented by
the CPU and IRC this year? It is ap
parent that the members of these
organizations do not have the an
swers. It is entirely possible that the CPU
and IRC have been at fault in pre
senting little known speakers. It is
entirely probable that the student
body has sunk into an unprecedented
lethargy.
The war is important it is all im
portant. Yet, we must not feel that
nothing else is important. The abil
ity of the general public to think out
the issues that face the nation is the
only thing that will safeguard the
results of future military victories.
r.L.
ISSUE:
Sports: WESTY FENHAGEN
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4 Beast of burden
7 Remnant I
12 Danish coin
13 Meadow
14 Hirsute
15 Corrupt
16 Maryland's largest
city
18 Auricular
20 Pours
21 Belief
23 Ibsen heroine
24 Pronoun
27 Revokes legacy
29 Exposed to view
SO Bets
32 Relax
34 Grown old
35 Lyrical 9
37 Empty tals (slang)
38 God of Underworld
39 Make election
speeches
42 Daughter of one's
sister
44 Twist about
45 Fatuous .
49 Craft
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61 Chafe
62 Malayan coin
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november 11th, 1942
mr. hiram hayseed, sr.,
bear creek, n. c.
dere paw,
its been a rite long time since i
last writ you but things has been
agoin on so fast roun hyar thet i
jest ain't hed the chanct to do no
writin.
as i writ you in my last letter,
everything aroun hyar is done in
akordance with the govmints speed
up program, navy and army officers
go speedin all over the campus and
kaydettes go speedin all over the ob
stickle course an the doctors go
speedin after them, an then the stu
dents in physikal edgerkation goes
speedin aroun the obstickle course
an an ambulance speeds after them.
coeds go a speedin out uv their
dormytories at 7:30 on wreek-end
nites an comes speedin in agin about
10 :30. You see they hev been a datin
kaydettes an they comes a speedin
. in at that time so they kin speed back
out with a Carolina gennilman on
what is known in these parts as a
late date, when she finishes that
date, she speeds back to her dormy
torie so thet she kin git in the door
jest ahead of her housemother who
is a speedin toward the door to lock
it.
an then them stoodents whut ain't
got dates speeds up to harry's or
marley's an speeds down a couple of
beers because the city pap ft b done
said thet us chillun kaint drink no
beer after midnight so we gotta speed
to drink twice as much before mid
night. an now it looks like the draft board
is agonna come speedin in after them
stoodents whut is 18 an 19 years ole
but them stoodents is smart as a lotta
them is speedin to the army and navy
reserves.
an then there's our presydent Doc
tor Frank Graham, it looks like ever
body wants him -to run somthin. up
in washintun, the presydent uv the
yewnited states has got him helpin
run the war laber board an of course
we likes to have him a runnin chepel
collitch an so the pore man jes speeds
to washintun an then we needs him
an he comes a speedin back to chepel
collitch an if sooperman don't come
along to hep him git between chepel
collitch an washintun, Doctor Frank
is jest agonna speed hisself to death.
an uv course they always was a
lot uv speedin to dooram but the last
few stoodents whut i hev seen speed
in to dooram hev come back a grum
blin about some new tax an they
paint so speedy the next time they
goes.
i reckon the freshmen is about the
speediest things on the campus
though, specially in their primary
elections, they just sped all over the
campus a tryin to git boys to vote
for their f rieris an when they could
n't find them, they went on an voted
in their place, an in the YMCA where
the votin was goin on- they was a
speedin all over the place helpin other
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'4 Clerical garment
5 Make callous
6 Bow deeply
7 Glow
8 Bad actors (slang)
9 Type of coffee
10 Wander
11 Stain
17 Woven fabric
19 Gave up
22 Territory (abbr.)
24 Play the stock
market
25 Chicken
26 Conclude
28 Sees
29 Death notices
30 Joker
31 Turkish army officer
33 Nights (abbr.)
36 Awards made to
movie actors
38 Eats
40 Sea bird
41 Part of flower
42 Glacial snow
43 French sewing box
45 Sick
46 Prefix: new
47 Disconsolate
48 Flow out
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freshmen fix their ballots an some uv
them was so nice thet they jest took
the ballot an fixed it themselves.
well paw i'v gotta speed off to class
now so i'll leave you with the hope
thet we'll soon see the gas pumps
aspeedin up.
yore son,
hiram, jr.
NEWS BRIEFS
(Continued from first page)
from Cairo tonight. dispatch said
that the fleet had left Toulon to join
the Allies. Earlier, however, Vichy
agency Havas said the warships still
were in Toulon harbor at 4 p.m. (10
a.m. E WT) . The fleet consists of three
battleships, 10 cruisers and about 50
destroyers.
US FLEET IN PACIFIC, Oct. 26
(Delayed) (UP) Another US air
craft carrier, riddled with bombs and
torpedoes in the battle of the Santa
Cruz islands, and listing badly, keeled
over and sank in the Pacific late to
day. The name of the carrier can not
be revealed. She was the fourth Amer
ican ship of her type sunk in the Pa
cific, following the Lexington, York
town, and Wasp to the bottom.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (UP)
American Guadalcanal forces are push
ing a two-front offensive East and
West of Henderson airfield and the
Japs have returned to Attu ,island in
the Aleutians. .
In the Solomons area American fly
ers shot down one zero and attacked a
force of five Jap destroyers eastward
of the New Georgia island group with
unobserved results.
In the Aleutians, Army bombers
damaged two Jap cargo ships at Kiska
while other planes destroyed seven Jap
Zeros in an attack on Holtz bay at
Attu. The latter action occurred Mon
day and was the first Jap activity in
Attu since October 7.
MOSCOW, Nov. 11 (UP) Soviet
parachutists wrecked or damaged 23
German planes in a lightning raid on
an enemy airdrome in western Cau
casia Wednesday. There are reports
that a German drive on Stalingrad is
imminent. Fighting along the whole
front has subsided to a new low ebb,
as the temperature dropped to 15 de
grees below zero on the Steppes around
Stalingrad. Blizzards are reported in
central Caucasia.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (UP)
A WPB spokesman said tonight that
Donald Nelson has ordered curtailment
of civilian use of petroleum products
in the 12 eastern seaboard gas ration
ing states. Extent of the cut and the
products affected has not been deter
mined; but announcement is expected
this week.
AUSTRALIA, Nov. 11 (UP)
The Japanese have been forced from
their main positions near Oivi in east
ern New Guinea with heavy losses.
Wonrv Wisher
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Squirrel in Harris Tweed
Objects to Paint and Clipping
I was talking with the squirrel the
other afternoon.
"Hello," he said.
"Oh, hullo," said I.
"Goodish sort of a day, isn't it,"
he noted.
"Yes."
"Bit nippy though. My confreres
and I have spent an hour or two
socking away a flock of acorns for
the bitter months. Tiring though it
.may be, such activity is essential,"
he commented.
"Yes, I suppose it is," I replied.
Both sides mused for a moment in
silence. The squirrel pulled a tin of
tobacco from the depths of the Har
ris tweed jacket and charged his
pipe.
"You know," he said, "there are
several things round here that Tfail
to understannd."
"Yes."
- "And one of them is this business
of paint and clipped hair that seems
to be going on between this and a
neighboring institution. You see,
old man, it would appear to those of
us who are civilized that such activi
ties are decidedly beneath the dignity
of man. But then, on the other hand,
I have ceased to wonder at the depths
to which you humans can submerge
your dignity."
I grunted non-descriptly to signify
neutrality.
"What I mean is, here you go
spending thousands in dollars and
calories to build glorious edifices,
worthy of quite a good deal of merit,
although of course they will never
compare with trees. And then a seg
ment of your population gets excited
and belligerent and goes blockhead
ing it off to Durham to besprinkle
the pavement wtih . pigments of
varying' shades.
"Then, as the acme of assinity,
you capture a few of the other insti
tution's students and clip off their
hair. Now hair is good stuff. You
humans have unfortunately been
cursed with a general lack of it, and
you should employ the utmost pru
dence in the care and preservation
of what you do have. But no. You
botch the job, and instead spend
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In the skies, Army planes fly and fight with
radio command sets. On the ground, radio rides
into battle in tanks field telephones, wire
and switchboards coordinate far-flung opera
tions. At sea, radio, battle announcingsystems
and telephones transmit orders and reports.
Sixty years as manufacturer for the Bell
System gave Western Electric the "know how"
and facilities to turn out such specialized war
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hours searching some victim for your
wrathful clippers.
"Quite so," I mumbled.
"Phooey," said the squirrel.
"What was that?" I queried.
"I said, 'Phooey.' Which was meant
to signify that I am inclined to con
sider your race a rather stupid one.
I do not understand how you can
continue to tolerate such a group of
ill-bred boors, how you can permit
them to continue such operations. It
is very upsetting indeed."
"Quite so."
"One of the things you humans
fail to realize is that probably the
only worthwhile contribution you
have made to the general scheme of
things is the invention of the arm
chair. Witbsuch a marvelous instru
ment in your midst, you continue to
fly around, distrait and in a mael
strom, scattering chaos and blusteri
ness in your wake."
"Yes," I said.
"You know, for a long time there
was a movement among some of the
more radically democratic squirrels
to allow a few humans to mingle in
squirrel society, provided they kept
their place of course. I was a mem
ber of the faction myself. Of course
the sentiment disappeared, as soon
as we all realized that it would en
danger our state of civilization by
the introduction of such low and
bestial characters. I am now favor
ing a movement to make the day
when the faction was by agreement
disbanded an official holiday through
out squirreldom." H.C.
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