FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1943
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
?AGE TWO
Publications Lose Meyer
Mag editor Sylvan Meyer leaves Chapel Hill early this after
noon to answer his call by the Navy. Yesterday he wrote his last
"Wisher" short because he didn't want to "get soft." He didn't
and neither will we.
We will miss him, but we are not sorry to see him go. He was
still working with the same zest. Up until the time he leaves to
day, he'll be giving last-minute instructions about the last issue
of the Mag. For the past three weeks he has done heavy duty as
adjutant of the CVTC and was just commencing to realize his
plan for student help on nearby farms to relieve the food short
age. . .
But two weeks ago, alter ego Carruth left as both graduated,
and the waiting in the "limbo" was weighing heavy.
We didn't like a lot of things he wrote and did. He is essentially
a newspaperman a good one and his shortstories still indicate
that he would do better to stick to journalism. We didn't like
Truth, the mimeographed expose sheet put out by him and other
colleagues a year ago in a sincere but sophomoric attempt to pub
licize the inside news.
But the work he did blacks out minor criticisms. As a junior
he turned in an excellent job as managing editor of the Tar Heel.
After he and editor Orville Campbell unbent their stiff necks
enough to tolerate each other, they made a good team. And only,
a combination like Meyer and Carruth could have stepped cold
into the job of editing the Carolina Mag and come out with a
product as good as it has been. It smacked too much of journal
ism. Sometimes it looked more like a newspage than one of Moll's
superlative issues of last year. But the Mag even more showed
hard work and devotion to the job in spite of a bone-pared budget
and a short-handed staff .
We still remember Meyer and Carruth walking about the cam
pus delivering the Mag from dorm to dorm and house to house
during last exam week when the circulation department wasn't
functioning.
We will remember for a long time his fundamental flare for
neswpaper work and the drive with which he backed it up, his
independence and willingness to contest any issue with anybody.
We will remember most that for four years He was a publica
tions man who did his jobs well because he liked them and be
cause they were hard.
Time Is Ripe For Service
Student government is beginning to feel this quarter, as it has
never felt before, the troubles brought on by the drain of stu
dents to the armed services, and the scholastic demands made
on many of those who remain.
Coordination between the many units of that government is
becoming much harder to achieve as their individual members
are forced to leave and new ones replace them thus causing con
stant orientation. ! As a result, the members of one group are
never quite sure who is in another group, making cooperation
difficult.
Such a situation coupled with the difficulty of even getting
replacements for many offices has brought about the discussion
of the possibility of freezing student government. It is not the
purpose of this editorial, however, to debate any more the con
troversies aroused by that proposal. '
It is its purpose, however, to point out that student govern
ment will continue at least a few more months. And it is also to
point out that if itwe are to be frozen at the end of that time, it
would be decidedly advantageous for students of the post-war
era to pick up again the running of what was a strong student
government at the time of its cessation.
To have had such a government if freezing is necessary, or to
continue throughout the next few years if it isn't, is going to
require that the fewer students with time to run it work harder,
and that those who have taken no interest in it in the past, but
who are capable begin to take an active part.
Most campus organizations are crying for more manpower.
There are many on the campus well equipped to supply it, and
certainly there could be no riper time for their services.
Apropos
'Pat's Place" reads the sign.
perhaps ? An intimate dine-and-dance spot ? No, not quite. "Pat's
Place" is the campus residence of President Mary Moore Dabney
Thomson of Western college, Oxford, Ohio scene of many a
sedate faculty gathering. More accurately the dignified red
brick mansion is known as "Patterson Place" but its distin
quished atmosphere fails to impress the local laundry which
gaily delivers its bundles to "Pat's Place." And there's not a
neon sign in sight.
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Associate Editors: Henry Moll, Sylvan Meyer, Hayden Carruth.
Editorial Board : Sara Anderson, Paul Komisaruk, Ernie Frankel.
Columnist: Jim Loeb. ,
Night Editors : Dave Bailey, Walter Daratoft, Jud Kinberg, Jerry Hurwitz
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Lindsay, Gloria Caplan, Pete Gulledge, Don Snow.
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Photographers: Karl Bishopric, Tyler Nourse.
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Only
By Charley Johnson
and Chuck Howe
This conversation took place
in Graham Memorial when I
was cornered by an elderly
lady.
"You know," she said to me,
"I don't like the idea of for
eigners teaching you children.
There are just too many 'olo
gies' and 'isms' nowadays."
"Don't you believe it's a step
toward world understanding?"
I asked.
She ' hurriedly interrupted
me and smiled a condescend
ing knowing grin.
"That's just it: That's just
it! Universal understanding
would find this old world just
too boring."
"You believe in a stronger
American nationalism then?"
I asked.
"That's where I'm grossly
misunderstood. I believe in pa
triotism." I asked her how she ever ex
pected world peace, and again
she smiled condescendingly.
, "There will be wars as long
, as there are people," she mur
mufed confidently.
"That's pretty pessimistic.
Don't you think we have made
some progress since the days of
the lower forms of life, even
since the cave man?"
"Oh!" she screamed horri
fied, "You are tainted!"
"You think there's some
basis for a theory of evolution
don't you?" I asked, surprised.
"I do not !" she responded in
dignantly. "Men are just like
they always were and always
will be. Children in college are
so utterly confused by educa
tion they don't know which
end's up. Just like I said, there
are too many 'ologies' and
'isms' and 'things'."
I started to suggest for her
a simple course in zoology or
geology, but she smiled once
more.
"I will talk with you again,"
she said.
I appreciate the compassion
which shone in that lady's eyes
for me, but I do hope she ap
preciates some of the compas
sion I feel for her too.
Not only the lady but the
old school is still shocked by
progressive thinking. We have
been shocked on more than one
occasion by the old school's in
difference to scientific discov
ery. C.J.
The Weary NJisher
That intangible something that is the quintessence of Chapel
Hill affects us all particularly in moments of arrival or perma
nent departure. This afternoon I take my leave, the last of the
Wishers, and enter V-7 school at Columbia where I may, or may
not, become an officer in the United States Navy.
In leaving I have this to say :
I am happy and grateful to have known; everyone I met here.
This includes those that I liked and admired, those that I detested
and did not respect, and those that had no emotional effect on
me whatsoever.
I am sorry to leave all that is Chapel Hill. I am glad to go into
service and glad that the limbo period of waiting is over and done
with.
I am thankful to my fraternity for all its members have taught
me.
I am glad that I raised hell when the occasion warranted and
I do not regret a single drink of liquor or a single date with a coed
that I had while I was here. , , -
I do not regret any of my extra-curricula work, but I apologize
for some instances of bad judgment and sophomorism.
I still think some of the things around here stink. I think some
of the others are the finest in the world.
I do not like to say goodbye to people, especially to those who
mean the most to me, so, to all I know, friends and otherwise, I
say these words :
Cranford will put out a good magazine, and Chapel Hill and its
spirit will endure forever.
So long, people. So long, squirrel.
Spain Proves
Less Helpful
By Ed Hecht
One of Hitler's greatest mistakes in this war, so far, was his
participation in tne Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. This was Ger
many's laboratory which backfired.
For almost four years Hitler has carried a blank check from
Spain for services rendered in the Civil War. Now that the Ameri
can forces have landed in North Africa, and the Russians are
sending Hitler's legions into
retreat, der Fuehrer wants
payment! But, will he get it?
Spain holds the key to this po
tentially dramatic doublecross.
In the next few months or
weeks we shall know the ans
wer. In order to understand
the situation better, let us ex
amine the Civil War and its
bearing on Spain's status to
day. In 1931, the king of Spain,
Alfonso XIII, was removed
and sent into exile in Italy.
Taking his place was the Span
ish republic under Don Manuel
Azana and Juan Negrin. Dur
ing this time, however, a storm
was brewing, and in 1936 a re
volt against the republic broke
out led by General Franco.
This faction charged the gov
ernment with Communism.
Civil War had begun.
Franco had undertaken a re
volt which at first seemed to be
a fast coup, but it lasted three
years. The war grew in size;
it left the borders of Spain, for
in the sea off the coast of Spain,
Italian submarines appeared. .
Italian troops landed from
transports. German bombers
filled the skies above Barcelona,
which was completely devas
tated. Other cities were also
ruined, and so not only Span
ish blood was shed.
England and France mean
while did little, fearing that the
war would spread. On the oth
er hand, Russia started to
send in squadrons of deadly
Chaco fighter planes to count
eract the axis fighters. A total
of 20,000 anti-axis and pro
loyalist soldiers joined in the
fight on the side of the loyal
ists. Strong Madrid held out, and
the longer it did the more Fran
co had to borrow. His debt
grew bigger and bigger. He
borrowed frantically, and by
1937 he had 100,000 Italian
troops and over 10,000 Nazis to
help propel his war machine,
which was on the wane.
This war was the scourge of
Spain, for many towns were
wiped completely off the map.
It is said that the Germans did
this iust for target nractice.
Hitler was putting Spain info
an oblivion worse than death
so that he might test his
strength and strategy.
Finally, with the fall of Ma-
By Sylvan Meyer
M
ore Trouble
Than First Calculations
drid the war ended on March
28, 1939, with Franco's tri
umphal entry into this forlorn
city, once the proud capital of
" a, now famished Spain. It is
true Franco had won, and that
. now Spain was his, but he also
owed a debt to Adolf Hitler.
"Kindly pay your debt' A.
Hitler.
This is the note that Franco
has received from the gracious
Hitler. Franco is in a tight
spat. If he tries to pay up he
will have the church and unem
ployed generals, who already
oppose him, upon his throat.
Hitler and Mussolini demand
not only money but food, sup-plies-and
munitions. How can
Spain pay when she has only a
Independent Coeds
Elect Kennedy Head
Lucy Lee Kennedy was elected
president of the CICA over Hilda
Weaver, Betty Seligman and Peg
Moseley at a mass meeting of in-
dependent coeds last night in
Graham Memorial at 7 o'clocck.
Pe'g Moseiey won over Ann
otrausG for vice-nresident. Bettv
seligman was unanimously elect-
ed secretary and Ida Mae Petti- tive members of V-12 may ex
grew defeated Ann Strause for pect to be in the classroom for
the post of secretary. three hours, Perry said.
The ten members elected to the students wishing to take the
executive board, policy determin- examinations must fill out appli
ing body of the two-year old cation blanks in Perry's office.
CICA, are Sue Brubaker, Lucy
Lee Kennedy, Peg Moseley, Mary y 4. Ty 4.
Lou Truslow, Betty Seligman, -LaSt JtieglSterillg'
Pug Upchurch, Ida Mae Petti
grew, Ann Strause, Margaret
Pickard and Hilda Weaver.
First Rationing
For Meats, Fats
To Start Monday
Chapel Hill housewives will
come to market Monday, March
?9 ager to Pul1 out red stamPs
in War Ration Book II for meats
and fats.
"I have heard a
1 nave neara a good many
tiT 1 ' -1 1
folks say that they will be glad
when meat rationing begins so
they can get a taste of butter
agam," Moody W. Durham,
chairman of the War Price and
Rationing Board said today.
Stamps become valid at the rate stol or mutilated.
of 16 points a week and will ap
ply to about 150 items including The new regulation also applies
-fresh, smoked, and frozen meats, to cases where ration books are
meat products, cheese, and fats, wrongfully held by per-
including butter and lard. sons otnr than their rightful
Like the point system used for ers. Replacement for coupon
processed foods, the meat and f heets whl are used for ration
fat rationing program provides ln?, commodlties such as fuel oil
for overlapping periods for va- 11 also come under this new reg-
lidity of stamps. For example, on-
ly the red A stamps may be used the difficulty of cutting meat and
the first week of meat rationing, cheese to the exact poundage re
but the A stamps remain valid un- quested by the customer, OPA
til the last of April. Series B will has ruled that if the fraction on
become valid on April 4, Series a single sale is less than one half
C on April 11, Series D on April a point, the customer does not
18, Series E on April 25. All provide an additional point
these stamps except Series E will stamp. If it is one half a point or
expire on April 30. more, the retailer collects a full
The point value of meats and point,
fats will be based upon weight, Unlike the processed food pro
and each store will display a gram, the meat rationing pro
chart which will enable the con-, gram will permit change in
sumer to compute quickly the points. Only one point of any va
point value of his purchase by lid series may be used in making
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ounce.
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CAROLINA THE ARTE today & Saturday
to Hitler,
few munitions plants, one air
craft factory and 6 leaky bat
tleships to her name? Franco
too has his food problem. His
children, the future of Spain,
are undernourished, poverty is
more rampant than ever. They
can be saved only by the Allies.
Franco dares not go too far,
for if he does he is finished.
Spain may arise again ; but no
matter how the war ends this
country is going to have a very
x hard time to reestablish her
self. All Spain has to offer to Ger
many is her strategic entrance
into Gibraltar which would
help greatly if he can reach it
over broken roads and ruined
bridges.
If Spain stays out of the war
entirely, she holds the key to
the situation by removing the
menace to Gibraltar which is
'England's greatest worry in
the Meditterranean at this
time.
Bingham Chosen
For V-12 Exam
Examinations for the V-12
program will be held on April 12
in 103 Bingham beginning at 9
a. m., Dr. W. D. Perry announced
yesterday.
The test will last about two
Honrs hut hpransp of rather ex-
tensive instructions all prospec-
For Book II Set
The last scheduled registration
for War Ration Book I and II
will be held on Friday and Sat
urday in the courtroom of Town
Hall. The hours are from 9 to 12
in the morning and from 2 to 5 in
the afternoon. No further regis
tration will be held for an indef
inite time except for newborn in
fants. Hereafter ration book replace
ments will be issued under regu
lations recently made by the
Washington Oifice, Moody W.
Durham, chairman of the local
Rationing Board, said today. "It
will now be up to the individual
owner," Durham warned, "to do
everything in his power to pre
vent his hnnlrs frotn Koin rr Inst
ulation.
change.