North Carolina Newspapers

TUESDAY, APRIL SO, 1945 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL w The official ife.p.per of t PuMleatloii Unk of the Urer JftJi Oipel HO. whire 1 prfafd T. except SN. StoSTof Entered u eeeond dan matter mt tbe poet office at Chapel Jim. n. w, lUrch . 1879. Sabeeription price la 85.00 fog the eollege year. Complete Leased Wire ROBERT MORRISON WESTY FENHAGEN BILL HIGHT CARROLL POPLIN and BILL WOESTENDIEK. PTT.T. RF.TJG - - CLIFFORD HEMINGWAY Bdv Wal. Janet Johnson, Bill SSSSRSS: lHTob FOB THIS WESTY FENHAGEN FRED JACOBSON . CARROLL POPLIN MAJORITY PROBLEMS MINORITY PARTICIPATION The Carolina campus is rich in the varied organizations and activities open to the student body: organizations and activities the majority of which are tackling the major problems of the people of the South, the nation, and world. There are few fields of human thought not covered by some group, yet the sum total of the combined membership of these groups is a very small minority of the student body. The Council for Religion in Life and the YMCA, attempting to apply Christian thought in the solution of campus and world problems, the University Veterans Association and the American Veterans Committee, tackling the problems of veterans, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, fighting to put into practice the democratic ideals of the American heritage, the Conference of Southern Students, building a united southern student movement, the Carolina Political Union, the Philan thropic Assembly and Dialectic Senate, thrashing out the issues in world politics, student government, race relations, and much more all of these groups are begging the student body to par ticipate. ; ,f ' ' The activities of all these organizations are covered thoroughly by the Daily Tar Heel. If they fail to arouse the interest of the student body, it is neither the fault of the organizations or the Tar Heel, but apathy and misunderstanding upon the part of the student body. College life is in its totality an intellectual experience, a period of learning which extends beyond the classroom. Joint dis cussion and action by the students is imperative if one wants to get out of college more than a high class trade. The classroom provides a bare minimum of raw facts in isolated fields. The campus club helps develop a rounded, compact, rational attitude toward life and some basic healthy reactions to its problems. The student who graduates Without actively participating in extra curricular activities will graduate a complete bore, unfit to par ticipate during his life with the intellectuals of the country, con demned to the stulifying company of the poker players, the Bab bitts, the respectable drunkards, and the sweet, sweet ladies and gentlemen that infest the nightclubs and country clubs. Your problems are being discussed every night on this compus. In the long run your problems will be solved in the manner that this minority of students who are training themselves to respon sible citizenry shall see fit to solve them. They are a minority because the majority has chosen to allow them to be a minority. They want you in with them. -D.K. . CONSTITUTION DELAYED Things are not going well with the constitution. Until Doug lass Hunt, Lorena Dawson, and Pete Pully assembled in the DTH - office yesterday afternoon there was not an accurate copy of the document on the campus. The constitution committee spent about a year in drafting the document and the student legislature then spent over three weeks of intensive debate in approving it:" Eight days ago the constitution was fully approved by the legislature, and turned over to the elections committee to come up before a campus vote. Time is growing short, and still there has been no meeting of the 15-man elections committee. Jack Hester, chairman of the com mittee, admits that he is overworked, and suggests that he may resign. Although he showed a great deal of interest during the constitution convention, we think that he is responsible for the confusion which has become apparent. - The campus needs a constitution, and through what seems to be a stroke of providence; almost all of the campus leaders have agreed to compromise their individual differences in order to ac complish a great good which most of us see in a constitution for the student body. R.M. ttir SexYlee of United Press -Managing Editor Associate Editor Co-Sports Editors .Business Manager Circulation Manager Jabine. , Strowd Ward. Barbara Thorson. Oaude Fay Maples, Both Tompkans. ISSUE: Night Editor Assistant Editor .Night Sports Editor Strictly Detrimental Levin Kinberg Editor's Note: The following was submitted for plicatwn by Jud Kinberg ob LevWe feeljhat it ttBl provide serious reading for some and a very amusing conglomeration for others. To keep things completely on the level, may we say that any one wishing proof of the ineffi ciency of past presidents of the student body can approach any of the following students and re ceive tons of evidence: Bill Crisp, Douglass Hunt, A. B. Smith, Jr., Jimmy Wallace, Har vey White, and others to whom these gentlemen will give refer ence. They made a study of the subject. Also we might remind our readers that the editorial to which Levin and Kinberg have reference was positively not our first attack aaainst the VP. On more than four other occasions we have pointed out the faults of the UP in our editorials. Here it is: Editor Bob Morrison's grand display of "principal" across six columns of a recent Tar Heel is, by his own statements, a long time acoming. ' In his first paragraph he ad mits that "it should have been said long ago," and yet Morri son waited until all hope of gain ing a University Party nomina tion for himself was gone be fore levelling his big blast against that party. Principals were stifled when there was still a chance for re nomination. Only when he could no longer benefit from affiliation with the party was Morrison aware that he suddenly "had waited too long to talk" to UP leaders. Effective OPA, Your Support By Garrick Fullerton (The material for this ar ticle was gathered by the Na tional Policy Committee of the Chapel Hill Chapter, Ameri can Veterans' Committee.) On Wednesday, April 17th, the House of Representatives passed a bill extending the life of OPA for nine months after having so crippled it by amendments as to render OPA ineffective for any practical purpose. Thus our rep resentatives indicated that their interest lies on the side of big business rather than the veteran, the common man, the average consumer. What will probably happen now, (unless the Senate develops some miraculous curative pow ers), is that an inflationary spir al will be started resulting even tually in another great depres sion. Veterans will be among the first hit and the hardest hit by a rise in prices. Big business will do all right with its increased profit; even organized labor re serves the right to negotiate for higher wages to take care of the higher cost of living. But the student veterans, the pensioned widows, the people with fixed in comes, will feel the pinch. Their income will remain the same while prices go up. It is indeed possible that some veterans will be forced to leave school. w 1 1 J J 1' ' orcunateiy tnese congress men who disregarded the will of the common people by crippling the OPA will not be able to es cape the responsibility for their acts. They attempted to do so, to be sure. The bill was dis cussed in Committee of the See OPA, page four Veterans Want Give Views on UP Speech It seems to us that as sole owner of a powerful weapon the , press it was Morrison's duty to publish defects -in JJP Party makeup as soon as they became apparent. Publish them in bold type with headlines com parable to his six column blast and not in scattered paragraphs. As editor, he should have made andjmblished his break long ago and not waited until the party renounced him. As it stands now, the whole thing reeks of per sonal vengeance and not of a cleanup crusade against ques tionable politics led by "a man of principals." The role of the Tar Heel should always be that of a vigi lant watchdog over all that hap pens on campus. But, because of the peculiar status of the news paper, we believe that it must remain objective and non-partisan. There is no means other than the DTH of making arti culate the charges and counter charges that are the camp-followers of every campaign Ko ral's views on Russia, Stern's views on poetry, Farrel's opin ion of the, NC Symphony. . . or politics. Admittedly there is plenty in Carolina politics that must be aired. But the treatment should be unbiased and complete. Mor rison, in spreading his walkout address down half of a day's DTH edit page neither sought nor left room for any counter statement from responsible cam pus leaders. Not satisfied with this advantage, he resorted to the use of a trite cartoon in Sun day's paper which served as a "gentle reminder" to those who might have forgotten that Mor Political Personalities Bill Woestendiek Is Keen, Meticulous, Allen Declares By Eddie Allen About the closest mild-mannered Bill Woestendiek has come to politics in his first 22 years was the seven miles that separated Newark, N. J., his birthplace, from Jersey City, seat of the notori ous Hague vote machine. Even at that, Bill moved to Saugerties in upstate New York when scarcely one year old. Since then he has indulged in journalism tfr,r pi oli f vPJirsV. a little ath- T- " i 7 1 letics, cryptography in the AAF Communication services and up until now he has -never run for anything more than the 8 a.m. bus. Thus it was not strange that most of the campus, the majority of which had neither heard of Woestendiek or Saugerties, looked upon him as a political horse of the darkest hue when the Student Party last week nominated him for editor of the Daily Tar Heel. Although a ris ing senior and a better than ca pable sports writer on the pre war Tar Heel, Bill had been ab sent from Carolina since Janu ary, 1943, when he acquired a new khaki suit and went to North Africa to wear it. The campus also did not know, but undoubtedly will quickly learn if it puts him into the edi tor's chair in September, that he is a "newspaperman's newspa perman," a meticulous, sharp minded and unbiased person who does his job and well and leaves the backslapping to those who have time for it. Never con nected in the slightest way with a political party in his three years at Chapel Hill, he received the SP nomination not because he asked for it, but because his experience and ability pushed him forward. The writing bug first nipped Bill in 1938, when he was'man- rison was leading the "little peo ple's" cause on a charging white typewriter. While the past record of both Student and University party leave much to be desired, there is little solid fact to back up the concrete statement of Editor Morrison's that the UP has "a notorious record for nominat ing for president men who never discharged the duties of their office." 1942-43 was the first truly crucial year for Carolina student self-government. In that year, two presidents of the stu dent body devoted themselves to streamlining campus organiza tions so that they might last out the war. The efficacy of their work is proven by the elections next month. The two presidents were Bert Bennett and John Robinson, both nominated by the University Party and elected by the student body. We are positive that this years elections will show a strong response on the part of a usually apathetic campus. Both parties have awakened to the fact that the campus is rapidly returning to normalcy. A nor malcy" not marked by students electing the candidate with the most keys and datebooks but a normalcy into which has been injected 2000 veterans that want the most for their money be it food or representation. If the Daily Tar Heel is to fully play its important part in this awakening, its edit page must not be the testing board for personal' vendettas of a dis appointed and disgruntled edi tor. It must be the meeting ground for well thought-out and substiated opinion. , - 1. -I 1 1 aging editor oi nis mgn sciiuui newspaper, also editing the year book in his final term. Keenly interested in sports, he soon be gan doing articles for the local paper in Saugerties, continuing until he reported for freshman orientation at Carolina in 1940. In the spring of 1941 Woes tendiek joined the sports staff of the Daily Tar Heel. After cov ering a bevy of smaller sports, .he attained the rank of night sports editor in September of his sophomore year, and by the au tumn of 1942 he was covering varsity football and handling many of the sports department's executive duties. January of 1943 found him in the Army, with a few other fel lows his age, and four months later he was overseas in North Africa in the code department of the Air Forces communications service. There Bill remained un til November of 1945, by which time he had acquired the stripes of a staff sergeant and was more than willing to leave Allied Head quarters in Algiers for home. Woestendiek got his ruptured duck in January of this year. Bespectacled, soft-spoken, on the. surface serious of mien but with an agile sense of humor, he loots like a student and he is. He writes and acts like an. A-l newspaperman and he's that, too. Jlcttenl Anti-Constitution To the Editor: 'It goes without saying that one can desire better student government without demanding a written constitution, and one can favor a written constitution without favoring the present proposed Constitution of the Student Body. From my study of the constitution as an interested student, and my acquaintance with it as a member of the Leg islature I am convinced that it has serious flaws which have not been sufficiently publicized, and that it will result in less efficient, rather than better student gov ernment. The, true heart of Carolina's student government throughout the years has been the Honor System, and rather than strengthening that system, the proposed constitution weakens it. The outstanding characteris tic of the new government is a tremendous concentration of j power in the Legislature, with a resulting decrease in the power and effectiveness of the Student Council, the body chiefly con cerned with the enforcement of Honor Syetem. Instead of con fining itself to the simplicity and workability of the Horor Code and the Campus Code the constitution gives the Legisla ture power "to determine offen ses against the Student Body" and to fix penalties and punish ments therf or. And the only veto over the Legislature's action is in the President of the Student Body, who cannot be a member of the Council. The constitution also requires anyone who reports another student for a violation of the Honor or Campus Codes to face that student before the Council; the effect of this pro vision can only be to sabotage re porting without any balancing gain in protection of students be fore the Council. Unlimited power in any one body has always beenbpposed by the American people, and rightly so. Although the proposed new student government is divided into legislative, judicial and ex ecutive departments, the real power lies with the Legislature. Through its power to levy, col lect and appropriate student fees it controls every organization on the campus dependent on those fees. It is specifically given pow er over the Coed Senate and all . class organizations. Through its power over appointments it con trols the personnel of the execu tive branch. Through its power over offenses and punishments it controls the Student Council. The only limitations on the Leg islature are the President's veto, the initiative, referendum and recall, the restriction of fees to 20 annually per student, and the state and federal constitutions. The problem of student gov ernment and fraternities and so rorities is not expressly handled, but it is clear that through its power to "make all laws neces sary and proper to promote the general welfare of the Student Body" the Legislature has power over rushing and other fraterni ty and sorority functions. Wom en's government under the new set-up loses its independence and becomes a subordinate and mi nority group functioning within the whole framework. There is no argument but that our student government, the fruition of a long and worthy tradition, needs , improvement and coordination, but the propo sed constitution is not the an swer. I urge all students to read and understand what this docu ment contains before voting in favor of it at the election. Wallace C. Murchison.