FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1943
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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College Papers Suspend
But Will Return to Continue Unique Job
As the school "year approaches its close, the DTH is getting
more and more notices from other college newspapers directing
us to cease sending them exchange issues of our paper, since
they have been forced to cease publication and cannot recipro
cate. Some of these papers have enjoyed complete freedom of the
press ; some nominal freedom subject to varying control by their
college Administration; and others none at all. But we are sorry
to see any of them forced to suspend publication, even though
it be only for the duration of the war.
The college newspaper is a unique organ. It functions by the
concerted efforts of a diversified cross-section of any student
body. It makes many of the mistakes that such a cross-section
of immature students would make.
It accomplishes much good by the unrestrained frankness of
student writers, writers who are not yet harnessed by political
and business ties and obligations.
And yet this tendency to be outspoken and frank is unusual
because the student writer is in daily and close contact with a
far larger proportion of his readers .than a city newspaper
writer. He is subjected either to more concentrated praise or
censure than his metropolitan brother.
He is a serious journalist concerned only with the technical
aspects of a good story or feature; an excitable youth deter
mined to print what he believes to be true with no regard for
technical niceties or public reaction; a serious statician con
cerned with getting at campus good or evil by the method of
figures and large conglomerations of facts; or he is, occasional
ly, the "crackpot," always ready to write the first notion that
comes into his head, investigate it later.
Working for the college paper is an experience highly valued
by those who have done it. It has given them ample opportunity
to make valuable contacts and friendships often denied the rest
of a student body. It has given him a smell of the feeling of
satisfaction gained by doing a job promptly, as accurately as
possible with no reward but satisfaction or perhaps a by-Jine,
So to those papers suspending for the duration, we say may
your hibernation be very temporary. We know you enjoy your
work, that you perform a useful purpose in journalistic train
ing, in training of judgment and proportion, and in keeping your
campus informed on all possible matters.
Colleges would lose a valuable activity if your retirement
were to be permanent.
A Strong, New Third Party
Might Draw Heavily From Present Ones
By Lee Bronson
Immediately following a large dinner in honor of George Nor
ris, veteran senator from Nebraska who was defeated in the
last election, a small group of men is reported to have rolled up
their sleeves and started talking about a third party. The party
would be a rejuvenated Farmer-Labor party, one to include all
real progressives. Since this time, little has been heard from
Norris or other men who were
interested in the suggestion.
The significance of the
meeting lies in the fact that
these men did not believe that
there existed any real party
for progressives. Such a third
party could take from the
Democratic party many of its
staunchest supporters.
On the other hand, big Jim
Farley has been traveling ex
tensively through the coun
try, dining and talking with
political bigwigs of the Demo
cratic party particularly sou
therners who are know to be
anti-New Deal. It has been
suggested, and Farley and his
friends haven't bothered to
deny, that this faction of the
Democratic party wishes to
break away 'in the next elec
tion and put up their own can
didate for president.
Their logical choice might
well be Farley and the former
postmaster is not apt to reject
such a "call to service."
However, party differences
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Nerrs: FRED KANTER
are not confined to the Demo
cratic party. Within the GOP,
the battle between the Willkie
supporters and the die-hard
conservatives is still raging.
Willkie draws his following
from young Republicans such
as Stassen and Ball of Minne
sota, while the Bricker-Taft
machine of Ohio best typifies
the reactionary branch of the
GOP.
The political scene seems to
be one of conservative and pro
gressive forces within each
major party. Some observers
believe that we will see a re
alignment of political factions
with many Southern Demo
crats working with the GOP
and the world-minded Repub
. licans shifting their support
to the Democratic party. New
party names might become
necessary. Others believe that
a third party may spring up
which would cement progres
sive forces and leave the Dem
ocratic party to the anti-New
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War Sets B
"Better Wood
By Wesley Bagby
Three and a half years have elapsed since that September day
in 1939 that Germany began her march on Poland. And it has
been nearly a year and a half since the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor resolved the great intervention vs. non-intervention
debate in America.
A lot of water has passed under the bridge and these three
and a half years have seen development on a greatly accelerated
scale in powerful and funda-
mental forces which have
greatly altered the face of the
war from its appearance in
1939. These changes have
made themselves especially ev
ident in the last six months.
It is difficult to recapture
exactly what America thought
of the war in 1939. But cer
tainly the active, aggressive in
terventionist group which
steadily won over more and
more adherents emphasized
strongly the ideological as
pect of the conflict.
American intervention, they
said, was necessary to preserve
intellectual freedom, scientific
advancement, freedom of re
ligion, of speech, of the press,
of individual action. It was
indeed a war to preserve mod
ern culture against an en
croaching barbaric medieval
ism. It was America's war
because it was a war for civ
ilization in such a conflict
there could be no neutrals.
Chapel Hill received an ex
cellent interpretation of this
point of view from Herbert
Agar, Weil lecturer in 1941,
who dramatically presented
the war as a world revolution
a counter-revolution of re
action and evil against enlight
ened progress.
In April, 1943, we find the
holders of this point of view
not nearly so vociferous. Va
rious factors have entered into
the picture that tend to com
plicate their courageously sim
plified explanation of the war.
The appearance of Russia,
who had not before been con
sidered as a leading champion
of western culture as opposed
to nihilism, on the side of the
allies was a confusing devel
opment, although effort is now
being made to correct our
many mistaken notions of the
Soviet Socialistic Republics.
The British also, perplexingly
enough, have not cooperated
as fully as might have been
Deal camp.
It is improbable that any of
the above-mentioned changes
will occur during the next
campaign if the United States
is still at war. Fights concern
ing domestic policy have be
come less significant in the
eyes of the voters than an all
out win the war program. The
sentiment against changing
horses in mid-stream is
strong.
But if the armistice has
been signed, we may expect
a lively campaign with, in all
probability, at least three
candidates for president
with split parties and new al
liances. . If the U.S. is still at war and
the political pot simmers un
til 1948 before big changes
take place, there will be time
. for a third party to build up
a substantial following, or for
new party lines to be well-defined.
At the present time the
terms "Republican" and
"Democrat" mean nothing.
The term's which are signifi
cant are pro-labor, farm bloc,
New Deal, isolationism, social
security, government regula
tion, public ownership.
It is with these and similar
terms that new parties will be
built and old parties reorganized.
ack Cause oi
Relations
hoped in this war of freedom
against f eudalistic exploitation
particularly in regard to the
application of our war slogans
to their own empire. And our
State Department seems sin
gularly unimbued with revolu
tionary fervor.
Indeed, as the conflict un
folds, there seems to be a grow
ing disillusionment among
these very intellectuals who
were so avid in 1939 for the
United States to take on again
the role of the savior of the
world. An editorial in the
March Fortune reflects, "Some
Americans have assumed that
the war is a world revolution,
with the Allies aligned against
nihilism, feudalism, and im
perialism on the side of con
structive change. Some of
these 'hosanna shouters' (as
Cordell Hull calls them) are
now getting wise to their mis
take. Pearl Buck practically
resigned from the war in De
cember." Sir Stafford Cripps, ap
praising this "moral let down
of the intellectuals" said in
February :
"There is a growing ten
dency to view the future with
a certain degree of hopeless
ness and almost sour disillu
sion. The confident expectation
which has been widely ex
pressed over the last three
years that we should never re
turn to prewar conditions,
that there would be a funda
mental change and marked
progress, shows signs of weak
ening just when the prospects
of the war ending seem to ma
terialize. Doubts are creeping
in and signs are not wanting
to ' show that privilege and
selfish interest are preparing
to cast the future in the mold
of the past."
Nor, unfortunately, is this
near-cynicism confined to in
tellectuals alone. There is
also little sign that the man in
the street has any idealistic
longing or expects an ideal
. ogical peace. Evidence is grow
ing that the statesman ,at the
peace tables after this war will
be expected to base his actions
not on a far reaching attempt
to end war but on an attempt
to secure as many economic
advantages as possible and to
put his country in as favorable
a position as possible for the
next war.
Even among the allied na
tions there seems to be a jock
eying for position. Mum's the
word as regards Russia's in
tentions. Britain intends to
yield not an inch of ground.
She seems to want to crush
Germany first her primary
enemy she can then partly
demobilize ' leaving America
to bear the brunt of the Ori
ental war.
Whether from fear of Chi
na's potential power or not
China seems to be getting a
short deal. There are also evi
dences of an Anglo-American
squeeze play on the French
and it is a matter of conjecture
whether or not France will re
tain control of her colonial em
pire after the war. There is
more and more talk about the
naval and air basis that will
be necessary throughout the
world for American security.
Thus the true face of the
war is beginning to thrust it-
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THIS CARTOON is one of the many rejected by the editors of
the Carolina Magazine's Centennial Issue. Some 25 select Car
toon's chosen from 2000 old cuts will appear in the issue each
representative of an individual phase of Carolina Humor history-
self up through the maze of
idealistic nonsense with which
we were inmeshed and led
into this war. It is not a pret
ty face. The picture is not as
yet clear but the features that
can be discerned hint at a
somber repulsiveness.
Everywhere the hopeful pro
gressive seems stunned and
dazed. A feeling of mute help
lessness creeps like a paralysis
over the mind of man. Per
haps inevitable is the coming
reaction one's .desperate
seeking for escape. Moral bar
riers will not withstand man's
mad scramble for forgetful
ness. And in this let, down
there is danger that the re
gression may proceed much
farther than is necessary.
To those who oppose the
growing reactionary forces
within our own. lines, to those
who would seek to ameliorate
the post-war reaction and
moral let-down, and to those
who would seek to salvage
something good from the de
bris of war, history offers its
wealth of the lessons of accu
mulated human experience
to him who knocks it shall be
opened.
It has been said that history
teaches nothing more clearly
than man's refusal to learn
from the lessons of history.
This seems to be particularly
true of each new crop of ideal
istic war mongers. Whatever
war is, and no matter how
necessary it may seem, it is
anything but a direct route to
the Kingdom of Heaven on
Earth. On the contrary, rath
er than the embodiment of the
advance of civilization, it in all
cases symbolizes a breakdown
in a large area of the stand
ards of civilization and a re
turn to the "survival" mores
of the jungle.
No matter how insistently
the "civilization saver" may
shout "what is true of other
wars is not true of this one
this war is different," the es
sential nature of war remains,
and must be recognized if war
and its effects are to be dealt
with intelligently.
Historically wars have
shown a moral decline in their
aims as they progressed such
is the tendency in this war.
Historically wars have brought
a decline in general altruism
such will be the tendency in
this war. Historically wars
have brought about a moral
let down such will be the
tendency of this war. His
torically wars have brought
about a lowering of the stan
dards of political morality
such will be the effect of this
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war. Historically wars have
built up particularism, rivalry,
and hatred, thus sowing the
seeds of future wars. Such will
be the tendency of this war.
However it is of no avail to
be bitter about the present or
cynical as to the future. It is
necessary only that the pro
gressive realize that in many
of the elements most necessary
to peace and progress the war
has carried and is carrying us
backward not forward. This
is an absolutely necessary pre
requisite to any realistic plan
ning for constructive postwar
action.
We cannot expect the peo
ple, after this war, to support
altruistic domestic or foreign
policies any more than they
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