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THE DAILY TAB HEEL SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1946 PAGE TWO Mm IarW The official newspaper of the Publications Union of the University of North Carolina at Chapel HO, where it ia printed daily, except Mondays, examinations and vacation periods. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel HfO. N. C, under the act of Karen t. 1879. Subscription price is S5.00 for the college year. Complete Leased Wire Service of United Press EOBERT MORRISON WE STY FENHAGEN : BILL HIGHT BETTTE GAITHER Editor Managing Editor Associate Editor eBusiness, Manager CLIFFORD HEMINGWAY Circulation Manager ASSISTANT EDITORS: Fred Jaeobson, Eay Conner. EDITORIAL STAFF: Dick Koral, Dick Stern, Dorothy Marshall, Gloria Gantier, Corinne Ossinsky. NEWS EDITORS: Bob Levin. Jaek Lackey. COPY EDITOR: Bill Lamkin. REPORTERS: Betty Green, Jo Posh, Frances Halsey, Janet Johnston, Mary Hill Gaston. Bettie Washburn. Gloria Bobbins, Sam Sttmmeriin, Elaine Patton. Mickie Derieux, Gene Aenchbacher. John Giles, Roland Giduz, Darley Lochner, Posey Emerson, Elizabeth Barnes. SPORTS EDITOR i Carroll Poplin. SPORTS STAFF: Howard Merry, Frank Miller, Clark Stall worth, Mel Cohen, Bob Fried- - lander. Buddy Gotterman, Jo Farris, Jim Kluttz. ADVERTISING MANAGER: Bill Seli. ADVERTISNG LAYOUT MANAGER: Ann Thornton; Assistant. Don Shields. BUSINESS STAFF: Suzanne Barclay, Natalie Seli. Claude Ramsay, Strowd Ward, Bar bara Thorson. ADVERTISING STAFF: Adelaide McNarty. Ruth Gay. Virginia Wilson, Peggy Cates. Sarah Wood.' Gene Heafner, Bettie Cheatham, Nancy West brook, Jean Youngblood. i Clare Hudson, Nancy Maupin, Ann Geohegan, Lois Clarke, Hal Dickens. Zeb Little, - Eddie Owens,' Mary Widener, Fay Maples, Marianne Brown, Jane Slaughter, Mary Jo Cain, Ann Cobb, Louise King. Jeanne Driscoll, Betty Lamb. Nooky McGee, Jo McMillan. r ' FOR THIS ISSUE; RAY CONNER BILL. WOESTENDIEK .....Night Editor -.;...Night Sports Editor Just Another Opinion polous PLENTY OF CANDLELIGHT A LA BLACKIE Graham Memorial's Candlelight Room, operated by well- known "Blackie" Black, has certainly become an asset to the campus. When the Graham Memorial Board of Directors, with its BMOC's and grey-haired deansran against a stone wall in opening a fountain and grill in the basement of the student union gether. It is their privilege. In UP Claimed Mono Government at New Low By Roy Thompson In April of 1945 the University Party nominated and elected Bill McKenzie, president of the student body; Dick Ford, vice-president of the student body; Joe Mallard, secretary and treasurer of the student body; Bill Stubbs, head cheerleader; Bill Ward, president of CAA; and Connie Hendren, editor of the Carolina Mag. Every one of these officers, nominated by the' UP and elected by mem bers of fraternities and sorori ties that are in the UP, has re signed. With the exception of Hendren they are all members of fraternities; Hendren is a member of a sorority. During the war the University party maintained a pretty tight monopoly on student govern ment. With this monopoly its members should have accepted certain responsibilities, but they failed to do so. The UP is strong for a num ber of reasons. Each member fraternity and sorority contrib utes money to the party fund. Each sends a delegate to party meetings. Fraternity pledges and sorority pledges may be used to distribute campaign litera ture such as posters and hand bills. Then when the day of election comes, , the boys and girls all turn out for a big vote for their brother and sister Greeks. , Their success lies' in organiza tion. They work together in, a common cause. They vote to- To the Editor: building, "Blackie" asked permission to start a "candlelight club." - With an oral, mutually terminable contract, Graham Memorial had what students have begged for since Hinton James moved into Old East. v , v "Blackie" says he isn't making much money, his cokes, cost too much, but candlelight and students are plentiful, and every one enjoys the Chapel Hill .night club, i&tiecomingpf Blackie and the excellent social program sponsored.by ; the Uni versity Veterans Association, Carolina now has left far behind the old wartime rut of two shows and five cafes. R. M. a democracy voters may cast their ballots as they choose, and it is their right to put the in terests of small groups and in dividuals over the interests of everyone. But they must recognize the fact that if they are selfish in their political aims, there may be a time when someone will rebel. - Now is the time for rebellion. During the war we heard prom ises about what the men in the upper and lower quads would do about politics. We were told that there was a time when they knew how to vote. We were told that they would not submit to domination by a small group of students. We heard rumors of old Student Party men who beat the UP before the war and would return to beat it once again. Elections are very near. Stu dent government is at a new low. The honor system is weaker by far than it ever was in what some of us like to call the good old days. Student entertain ment has dropped from a pace set by Helen Jepson, the United States Marine Band and Alec Templeton, to a magician who can change white handkerchiefs into flags by pulling them through a hollow tube, and a man who can play the piano with mittens on. On many lips there are these questions, "Is the University Party going to be allowed to do it again ? Is student government going to continue in its down ward trend ? . Are , we going to pay twelve thousand dollars next year lor tnira-rate entertain ment? Is a small group of fra ternities and sororities 'going to continue to dominate student government and elect unqualified candidates to offices that they will resign from after once hold ing the titles and honors? Wednesday 's Convocation Presumptuous, Limited To the Editor: -The title of Wednesday's Convocation held much interest for me as a graduate student and as a native North Carolinian. I hoped to learn what might bring about such a rebirth for the whole South. However, I came away disappointed. Conversations with friends suggest I went looking for too many answers. I am told the speech applied solely to our campus, and that it was a limited portion of all believed needed ' for a new birth. I prefer not to accept this since it seems too narrow a tenet for worthy a title. In either case, I cannot agree that work and faith are sufficient for our times, which was im plied by the speech. However to suggest that they are not neces sary is ridiculous. The insistence of my friends has lead me to examine ideas from a student viewpoint, rather than, except for some generalizations, from a more universal one. I am not a student in Dr. Craig's sense. I don't work enough. way aonv i worKi i agree with the speech with regard to the university, athletics, and matrimony. Still I don't work in my field as I should. Why The answer may be given sim ply. The question it raises is not so simple. What am I working for? (This question is common to other students in several de partments; therefore,' it may well .be aired here.) y. Indicative of this is a very im portant question before the pub lic today, namely the role of science in society. What good to become a leading, bacteriolog ist or an expert physicist if fear ful minorities are to harness these sciences in the production of yet more lethal weapons? What good achievements, if har nessed for, total human destruc tion ? . What good a sociology See OPINION, page U CHR0N0S VERSUS HOMOS Recent misbehavior by the clock atop South iBuilding, has added to the chronological confusion under which the Univer sity of North Carolina operates. Long standing tradition has it that no two clocks in Chapel Hill agree before the rude ar rival of -the radio and telegraph, the village of Chapel Hill was despot of its own time, and whether the rest of the world recog nized standard time or not, the self-sufficient University com munity was content to watch the shadow of the Davie Poplar. The bell atop South Building rang for all the events of the day chapel, classes, meetings of the Di and Phi, and even an oc casional night of torment for the freshman class. Today, following the exit of the horse and the grand debut of mass production tactics in education, the oft' faithful dome of "Davie's Folly" rings out the hours, but pays no attention to man, tide, or the radio announcer. In line with the Caldwell pbelisk, the Davie Poplar, and the Old Well was recently built the Morehead-Patterson Memorial Tower,more generally called the "Bell Tower." This later edifice soon learned the individual istic tradition of this University, and struck when and as often as it pleased. With the coming of the coeds there was a similar invasion of clocks. These clocks were placed in various points Behind For the answer, ask the men that believes only in those things which may be counted? Before we are able to, work freed from skepticism and with the single ness of purpose suggested, it is necessary also to answer: For what shall we work? My friends tell me it was as- The Flickers By Charles Kauff man This year will prove to be a bumper year for high-budget western films. The $20,000,000 bracketed for super saddlers is the highest sumed that the audience had al in Hollywood's history. Leading in the field is David O. Selznick's ready established this prerequi- Duel In the Sun" whose cost : now exceeds 5 millions. Other ex- site for rebirth. It was a dis- pensive productions of the western scene are "My Darling Clemen- guised assumption. . Further, I tine" at 20th-Fox; "California" at ' Paramount ; and "Calamity lam told that personal achieve Jane at Warners. ' 1 ment was assumed as a aoal. and Veteran producer Bryan Foy's : that the fruits of specialization llast job for Fox is "That's For Me" starring Perry Como, Viv ian Blaine, Carmen Miranda, Harry James, and Phil Silvers. Soon to be an independent pro- ducer, Foy says : "I want to make a few bucks for myself." He started at Warners in 1927, and has been under Zanuck since 1941. Joan Leslie and Warners are walking in separate ways, ac cording to the actress, who has served notice on the studio ter- throughout this ivy-covered area, and each was quick to learn minating her contract. Studio, the liberal tradition which manifests itself at the North State University.' From our laboratories came the know-how of mass produc tion, and soon industry was adding to our chronological irregu larities by turning out millions of wrist watches and alarm clocks at very low cost. Students purchased these new devices in on the other hand, reports the pact has one year to go. Mean while, Miss Leslie is reported to have signed a contract with Sey mour Nebenzal to co-star with Bob Cummings in "The Chase." Her separate, contract for one great numbers, and today the campus is covered with time- pic a year at Fox is still unques- keeping instruments of every denomination. As Walter Cottingham, a student, said in a letter to the editor, "The clock in the Bell Tower is approximately seven minutes fast whereas the clock in Lenoir Hall is about that much slow. The clock by which' classes are started and ended strikes an un happy medium between these two." , The only solution to the problem that the Daily Tar Heel can offer is that we sink into the true atmosphere of this Southern village, and concentrate on time and space, literature and art, and forget the time to which the lavman is a slave. Geoloerv tioned Jane. Russell's "The Outlaw" topped grosses at Atlanta's Loews for the city's pride and joy, "done With The Wind." To invade th' solid south like that, it must be sumthin', suh! Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly draw the starring roles in Metro's "My Heart Stood Still," screen biog of Richard Rodgers and the late Lorenz Hart. majors know that being fifteen minutes late. to class is a con- Rex Harrison, soon to appear dition which sinks into oblivion when measured against the infinite existence of the universe. If your professor demands that you get to class on time, just remind him that this Chapel Hill, and he must get in the swing of things. R. M.U with Irene Dunne in Twentieth's 'Anna and the King of Siam" will probably play opposite Mary Martin in "Alice Sit by the Fire" for, Para. . ; . Ginger Rogers will begin "The Gibson Girl" for are the ultimate in our civUiza- RKO in July. . . . Metro to begin Hon. True, we are as one result new International Newsreel idea of such a course able to explain next month for world-wide audi- much of the nature of the phy ences. . . . Claudette Colbert, sical universe. But it is pre- back on the Metro lot for the first time since "Boom Town" in 1940, will make one picture there. "The Sacred Heart" co- starring Walter Pidgeon. . . Universal Studios and the city of Atlanta are still having it out Dementia Domain Edited by Ray Conner 'Any rags, paper, J unkman : tooth, and toenail over the ban- old iron? ning of "Scarlet Street." ... Man of the house (angrily): Joan Crawford's second picture "No, my wife's away. after winning the Academy Junkman: "Any bottles?" Award will be "Portrait in Clipped. RlAr.k" co-starrincr James Ma son, British cinemactor. . . Universale biggest blowout of 1946 will be Deanna Durbin's forthcoming "Up In Central Park." . .... . Anne Revere, win ner of Academy Award for fe-i male supporting role in "Na- j tional Velvet" a MGM success, "Why do you call your boy friend 'Pilgrim'?" "Because every time he calls he makes a little progress." Clipped. Angry Father: "My boy, you has just been all snatched up by couldn't even dress my daugh- TTt -f X. ,.rn'7 I 4-. r OX -LUX LUC liGAL Btsveii ICOIO. Id. Get this line-up of returned male stars , from one studio, girls ! Twentieth Century-Fox has all these guys at work right now : Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, J T ... im--fone the other day. The Rebel. ery, rranK Lattimore, vei . , Romero, Victor Mature, Lon Mc-1 Callister, and Richard . Jaeckel. Oh, yes! Alice Faye's back . 'Maybe not right, now sir, but I could learn." Clipped. We have always called a spade a spade until we hit our foot with "Now that I have a . Frigi daire," said the careful wife to she's been increasing the popu- her husband, "See what you can ation since "Hello, Frisco, do about an electric stenog- Hello." ; rapher." Clipped. sumptuous to suggest that all of this has made man happier. We are taught how to understand the world, rarely how to enjoy it. To double dare us to ivork will be superfluous if the uni versity is able to help us answer the question: For what shall we work? Success is ultimately, under our constitution, personally de fined. If it is solely the joy of achievement, and if this is renaissance, then we want none of it. The Nazis were joyfully achieving, yet few think them happy. By all our standards their attainments meant spirit ual death, not rebirth. Darwin once wrote a friend, "it is a sin for any man to become so ab sorbed in any subject as I am in mine." It is recorded that in his later life, he was unable to take the slightest interest in poetry, art or religion. These are the ultimates of work. To achieve without clearer ideas of the effects on society or to dem onstrate a blind faith in a "baby to handle high explosives is too idyllic. To be ignorant of pos sible consequences is a crime far worse than indolence. More than work is needed. Success as commonly defined does not liber ate the mind nor build charac ter. During the war, I came in contact with several engineer ing specialists conceded to be successful. Yet their lack of common courtesy was appalling and they like Darwin were lost in their own realms. Yet they were products of some of our best universities and they had learned to work. It is highly improbable that specialists with their noses, held faithfully to their respective grindstones shall be able to avert atomic wars, chaotic economic cycles, race rioting and the other evils of our day. It isn't a point of just being industrious; the evil men of today are obviously too industrious, but for what pur pose, industry? . The problem of education, we dare suggest is not one of mak ing little machines who turn out work without a second thought, but one of instilling the finest ideals that we shall be able to live them, and to transplant them to the next generation. In tegration of these ideals in the universal interest of man, re quiring work and faith, may lead to specialized achievement and scholarship. An asthetic ap proach toward this integration of personality gives promise of meeting the challenge that is ours. Sincerely, Brownie Newman Dear Sir: I must confess franklv thaf I'm just a little confused. Would Messrs. Mulling r, Mintz or any other authori Hp on the subject condescend to ex plain to me just what it is ih Joe Stalin, John L. Lewis, Wal ther Reuther, Henry Wallace, Sen. Bilbo, Claude Pepper, and idrs .foreman have mon? m com- Yours sincerely, ; Garry Fullerton
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