f AGE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1942
Wettach Told Our Reporter..
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Dean Wettach of the law school told our re
porter yesterday the investigation into the al
leged police beatings of three Chapel Hill Ne
groes "is proceeding according to schedule. It
is probable," the Dean added, "that it will be
over before examinations."
When Mayor Robert Madry appointed Dean
Wettach and Mr. Burch, of the business office to
make up the committee that would undertake the
investigation, the Daily Tar Heel expressed
complete confidence in the men who were se
lected. Further, the Mayor's action, his quick
appointment, which came the same day the story
appeared, was an encouraging sign.
Dean Wettach's statement yesterday was de
cidedly encouraging. It bears out the belief that
the men conducting this investigation are ap-'
proaching the problem soundly and realistically.
At first, we would have preferred open hear
ings, and immediate action. But now we can well
realize the immense amount of research and
checking-up that is necessary before the com
mittee can make its records public. The detail
work that Dean Wettach and Mr. Burch are put
ting into the investigation, make a quick re
port well-nigh impossible.
Too, we are now convinced more than ever in
the fundamental soundness of the committee's
wish to keep the hearings closed. Many persons
desired to testify before the committee, and
many might have been frightened off by wide
spread publicity, and notoriety. The committee
felt it could do its best work without a surround
ing blaze of publicity, public testimony and pic
tures. And so we are quite content to await the com
mittee's report. We have not forgotten the mat
ter. Nor have we forgotten that a great injus
tice may have been perpetrated in the alleged
beatings.
We feel too that out of these investigations
will come some sort of permanent reforms that;
will prevent-these outrages in the future.' We
are not quite certain yet what form these plans
will take. But that they are being formulated,
and are under consideration, by the Mayor,
Board of Aldermen, faculty, students and towns
people, we have no doubt.
Until Dean Wettach and Mr. Burch have com
pleted their investigation then . . . we must wait.
"uMietty Seekers ' to
Constitution
Grapevine
The project of a campus constitution has been
discussed and rehashed more times than the
opening of a second front.
The second front is well on its way. The cam
pus constitution is not.
It remained for Ferebee Taylor, hardworking
speaker of the Student Legislature, to draw up
last spring, after considerable research and in
vestigation, the first campus constitution.
Taylor did a thorough job. It took him three
months of intermittent work to complete the
document. When he was finished, he turned it in
to Dean F. F. Bradshaw for safe keeping. Up
in the dean's files, the constitution is gathering
dust.
When Taylor drew up the constitution he had
no inkling of the tremendous importance it
would have six months later. His main purpose
was so to delegate powers and authority among
student government agencies so that they would
no longer have to worry about tending the huge
mass of machinery that they have built, so that
they could after many years start.
. For during its many years of development stu
dent government has at last become so complex
that it takes most of the time of campus officers
to keep it lumbering along, leaves little time to
produce positive action for the student body they
represent. i
That was Taylor's original idea, and a good
one. But student government now faces a crisis
immensely more important. As the campus
continues to disintegrate and the enrollment of
the regular student body continues to fall off, stu
dent government agencies will be decaying be
cause there will be no students to devote enough
time to them. If no move were taken, student
government would die a slow death before the
war's close.
Students coming back to the University would
have to begin all over again, as they did after the
last WorldWar, to reconstruct student govern
ment all over again. .........
The setup we now have is not perfect, but it is
the good result of many years of experience.
Rather than start from scratch, it would be, in
finitely better when the time comes and that
may be soon to freeze student government and
" put it away for the duration so that the post
war campus will have something to start on.
If the Legislature would authorize a commit
tee to revise Taylor's document to fit the pres
ent situation and then effect its passage by the
student body, we would be ready if and when the
time for freezing comes.
(By the Staff)
Carolina's alumni who can usually be counted
on to help the University out of a tight fix and
who often help it greatly when it is not in any
particularly dire need, added another star to
their record when it was announced that Ken
neth Tanner of the class of 1911 had donated
West house to the Carolina Volunteer Training
Corps for the duration of the war.
Rapidly expanding and literally bursting out
of its present headquarters, the CVTC could have
been presented with no gift it would have more
appreciated. While it has been growing in num
ber and efficiency, the Corps has often run into
bottlenecks caused purely by the size of its
quarters.
Now its staff officers will have room to work
and concentrate, and its commandant, Colonel
W. A. Raborg, who has been performing most of
his executive duties surrounded by almost a
dozen student officers, can have individual and
ample office space.
For the student body and members of the
CVTC, we extend thanks to Mr. Tanner for a
very appropriate loan.
,
Well, Christmas is almost here with pre
ceeding exams. But, why mention those? It is ;
very possible that many of us will get quite a
shock when we roll into the old home town. It is
very possible that we may see something that
we have missed in Chapel Hill. The fellows in
the neighborhood have all gone to war. The
crowd at the corner drug-store has grown
Meals are planned according to what the grocer ;
has in stock. "We don't use the car unless we
have to anymore."
The war has hit home a lot harder than it has
here. The fellow down the street got killed in ,
the African campaign. Mrs. Jones isn't wear
ing black because the fashions demand.
If we don't see it, it's our fault. If we don't
come back to Chapel Hill in January with a feel
ing that we ought to be in uniform, it's because -we
know we are doing our best in college.
It's up to us to justify the college reserves. It
is tip to us to justify the college to the American
people. If we don't, no amount Of "justifying
the college in the war" will appease public
opinion.
With each right, goes a corresponding responsibility.
ID)
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Up until now, students have not seen or felt the pinch of war on
the Daily Tar Heel. Up until now, the paper has appeared m
much the same form as always.
t u i,- au' " u nu unteered time for "heeling." As
But behind the scenes the pmch & departments of the
has been painful and tight since DTH have been undermanned,
the opening of school. In order to This thrown additional work
parry the threat of a cut in size on the experienced members left
or frequency, editors spent sleep- to doctor the work of inexperi
less nights readying a budget to encei novices. Very little of this,
allow for a $6,000 cut. The re- we hope, was evident to readers,
suit was a drastic slice in all sala- with this issue, the DAILY Tar
ries and a paring of all items heel takes on the first outward
which could be touched without sign of wartime hardships. If
eliminating anything firmly im- the reader will compare today's
bedded in student favor or prac- paper with yesterday's he will
tical necessity. x notice that the type is a little
In addition to the financial larger yesterday it was in 8
pinch, manpower has been a se- point, today it is in 10-point. In
rious trouble. Because they are itself this is not such a great
uncertain how long they will be change but its effect may stir the
in school, usually overanxious wrath of many campus publicity
student journalists have not vol- seekers. In plain language, the
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change means that the Daily
Tar Heel will contain over one
fifth less reading matter.
Because of this decrease in
content, editors will be forced to
leave out non-essential informa
tion which they would otherwise
have been glad to print. Editors
hesitate to set advance rules as
to what will be allowed to go in
and what will have to be left out.
The actual deleting will have to
come about as conditions necessi
tate from day to day and accord
ing to the weighing of news
values as decided upon by the
editors.
To avoid angry words and mis
understanding, the editors ask
that students, faculty members
and townspeople acquiesce agree
ably to the deletion or omission
which is necessary.
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SPORTS: CHARLIE EASTER
Remnants...
To quote the French, the
boys at Toulon seemed to have ,
a lot of "savoir-faire." In all !
events, when the Germans went
down to Toulon to take over
the fleet from the "eager sail
ors of France," they- found
they'd been outsmarted.
Taking a leaf from the Ger
man's own book, the French
men had scuttled a navy that
would have put the Axis back
into the Mediterranean. It
must have taken a lot of cour-
age for the sailors to do it,
knowing that loved one in
France would face concentra
tion camps and even death in
retribution.
'You can understand now
why the French people are
usually hard to defeat, and al
ways even harder to conquer.
By Richard Adler
"There isn't a face in Chap
el Hill I don't know," said Law
rence Charles Shapiro, better
known as "Shep" to Hill movie
enthusiasts.
For the past three and 2
half years "Shep" has been E.
Carrington Smith's top usher
in the Carolina theatre. .Dur
ing that time he has seen
2400 showings, 800 different
movies, and has ushered a to
tal audience of approximate
ly 1,000,000 people.
"They're mostly the same
people though . probably
around 60,000 familiar faces
in the lot. Happy, sad, grumpy,
glad," (that's a little jingle I
made up about them as a
group.
They have their moods, en
joy movies, and are a right
nice bunch."
"Shep," black-haired, dark
complexioned, twenty one
years old and a Commerce ma
jor is methodical places
things in general categories.
Because of his lately acquir
ed background he thinks in
terms of dramatic medium
"Movies cover everything from
social theory to legs bath
tub murders to laughs . . es
pecially, they give you the in
side story on people."
Meet John Doe
With him every situation is
a plOt--evejry person a type.
He classes himself as an aver
age man like John Doe. "Not
the Gary Cooper John; Doe
though. I'm not that tall nor
that shy. Just a guy who
knows he's a small guy . . but
who wants an even break out
of life."
Born in San Diego. Californ
ia, "Shep" has led a nomadic
existence covering territory
from the Pacific to Ontario
Canada . . . then down South
to Charlotte which has been
his home for the past five
years.
The thing he has wanted
most in his life is independ
ence. At nine he got his first
business impulse when he
wanted to have a bike. Denied
the necessary funds he start
ed the hackneyed paper route
and made enough for the pur
chase. The vehicle was then
used for expanding the route.
His main theme now is to
work hard at whatever he is
doing so that someday he may
have his own business.
Being the ."average man"
Shapiro has had his share of
unfortunate experiences. At
twelve, he was lost two days
in the Canadian Rockies.
"There wasn't even a berry to
feed on," he said. A year la
ter he spent all night in the
St. Lawrence River when his
Catboat capsized. That win
ter he was run over by an au
tomobile. Both his arms and
legs were broken. Doctors did
n't think all bones would heal.
The next summer, when all
had miraculously mended, he
fell out of a tree and rebroke
all four appendages.
King of Minor Posts
At Charlotte High, he was
President of the Homeroom,
Vice-President of the History
and Latin Clubs ... "I did o.k.
with the small fry," was his
quote. His only criminal of
fense was combined with the
only time he made a headline.
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Tab
Gather round you hep cats
and latch on to the latest wax
ings of the smoothies. Bend
your ear to the "three B's of
the musical world," . . . bar
relhouse, boogie-woogie, and
blues. This week's stuff Is
definitely out of this world.
The solid senders have slopped
off the icky drool and beat out
a rugged mess of real home
cookin'. There's no longhair
around. The hep cats have
pushed the long underwear
boys into the brass section.
Best of the past seven
moons is Hairy Flames, and
his trumpet, in "I Came Here
To Talk For Joe, He Caught A
Cold and Had to Blow." Send
ers, this is really somp'n. The
old jive hound has done it
again. A mellow bunch of
notes. A really solid set of
sharps and flats. On the re
verse side is that new volcano
song, "Lava Come Back to Me."
Gay Gyser made a super
du(per, thriller-diller, bender
schmender, wowie-zowie, hoity-toity
record of "Praise
The Lord, And Pass Me Anoth
er Stack of Blue Chips." Dish
The Wiggle maneuvers the
vocal cords on this one. Back
ing up this opus is the gas ra
tioning song, "The Old Grey
Mare I Hope She's What She
Used to Be."
Glenne Smeller blows, spits,
snorts, whistles and otherwise
makes noise on his slip horn
in a new ballad, "Is It Love or
Draft Evasion?" The whole
band went to town on this one.
In fact they went to a recruit
ing station and joined the ar
my . . . which is why there
While hitching in the middle
of the street in Charlotte he
was arrested. The next day
the blurb read, Youth Thumbs
Ride into Court.
He came to Chapel Hill in
1939 as a Freshman and land
ed the job he has been hand
ling ever since. This year he
has been made Assistant Man
ager of the Chapel Hill Thea
tres under Smith.
His favorite type pictures
are musicals his pet cinema
gripe, Don Ameche. He col
lects newspaper headlines and
matchbox covers for hobbies
likes Book of the Month
Club novels.
When asked what he did on
his day off, he replied "I
don't go to the movies . . .
guess I fooled you that time!"
With Stud Gleicher
ain't no more Glenne Smeller
records.
What's Playin' With the
Bands:
Buster Brown has moved
into the Iron Carbide room of
the Hairy Arms.
What torch singer is a singe
to sign a fat Hollywood con
tract? Jimmy Doorstop moves into
Rickety Hall for the winter
season.
Jimmy's brother, D. T.'s will
soon be playing in the Meat
ball room, atop Chinlinowicz's
Hacienda.
Cornelius Thadwalder HI,
has just finished an engage
ment at Monotony-on-the-Hudson
and will now make a
tour of all the colleges that
want "big name" bands.
Little Boy Blue is looking
for a new nite spot in which to ,
blow his horn.
Well, fellow music lovers,
that's all for the nonce. Jeeves,
get me a new needle ... I need
another shot in the arm.
On The Hour . . .
2 : 15 Symphony Orchestra
rehearses, Hill hall.
7 : 00 Thanksgiving supper,
held in Baptist church.
8:00Carolina basketball
team meets McCrary Eagles,
Woollen gymnasium.
8:30 Fireside concert, held in
Graham Memorial.
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