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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1946 The Time Is Now Dr. Graham, in his usual unaffected and sincere way, has again left us several challenges which are deserving of our first consideration. Not the least of these challenges arises from the pathetic fact that over one hundred members of the present faculty in our Greater University now remain at their respec tive positions despite offers of from twenty to one hundred per cent higher salaries at other schools throughout the United Sates. It is true that to most of us the subject of the under payment of our educators has become so common that we al most consider it hackneyed; yet, the situation has progressively gone from bad to worse while we idly discuss it. ' This is of direct and immediate concern to all students now enrolled here, whether they be residents in a private home in Chapel Hill, a member of "Trailer Court," a Quonset Hut "hope ful," a fraternity or dormitory member, or a married student coming in from "Mudville." No one argues the question that salary increases must become actualities, but few have taken the trouble, to realize that we are a reasonably mature pressure group 6700 strong. With the General Assembly session fast approaching in January, the time for positive action on the part of our student body is now! Student opinion must consistently express itself now and until the disparity is remedied. This expression must find itself in the form of personal visits to the law offices of our own representatives to the State and National Legislatures, in let ters to our home town editors, and in talks with every man of any influence we know this will include every person who con trols a single vote. Veterans must mention it in the meetings of the American Legion, V. F. W., A. V. C, Amvets, and in every other meeting they attend. The ideal is easily of sufficient nobility and urgency to be "preached" from the pulpits of our churches just as other questions in the past have been crusaded. The question of Federal aid to Public Schools must be debated in the halls of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Socie ties ; the C. P. U. must ask that salary increases be given pri mary consideration by its speakers. The University Veterans Association must continue and even increase its strong and spirited efforts toward this goal. Every organ of student ac tivity can make itself an integrated part of the drive. It will be the job of the campus publications to use their full strength in reporting and supporting these efforts. A mere twenty per cent increase will not accomplish ade quate results. The University needs financed research pro grams for trips into the field by its instructors. Social scien tists need to study European and Asiatic conditions first hand. Physicists must have the experience necessary for an age of atomic energy. Historians and geographers should visit the places they have studied. After all these are in progress, up-to-date periodicals and publications should be supplied them rather than having the money to purchase them coming from the same pocket as the one from which that for the purchase of daily bread must come. Liberal pensions should secure them in old age. If the University of North Carolina is to remain one of the foremost American Universities in the eyes of the people quali fied to judge, and if we are to continue to find ourselves study ing textbooks written in Chapel Hill by the instructors stand ing before us rather than by the same men at other places and other schools, we must use the natural influence which we have inherited by mere fact of being at an intellectual center. We must use it Now! Strictly Detrimental Breakfast Table Suggestions Found Worthy of Discussion By Jud Kinberg Our few friends and well-wishers, including Dan the Dog, have presented several items of importance to me around the hegemony of the breakfast table. Since this process of attrition has been going on amidst the corn flakes for some weeks now, the list of "why don't you write abouts" has grown quite considerable. To prove to them all that we don't take their kind sug gestions with a squirt of orange juice, I'm instituting "Short Shots." Hope you like it. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a par ticular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves . ... the surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity. Thoreau. atlj ar SS Number One: Ignorance Is No Excuse By 1943, when passing or failing a subject could mean remaining in safe harbor at UNC's V-12 or going out to sea, the honor system had lost much of its potency at, Chapel Hill. It was just another of the very decent standards that went by the boards when they rushed up against the tough test of expediency. Death of the system for so large a part of the campus could only bring one re sult: emasculation of the power and prestige of the entire idea. Today, with 7,000 student returned to Carolina and its overcrowded class rooms, re-selling the honor system is a major task. Except for the incom ing freshmen, it seems to me that the "hucksters" of the Carolina way of life have been pounding figurative pillows. A new, large-scale program should immediately be instituted to revive in terest in and understanding of the honor system. Many men signed the pledge and threw their honor on the drum as long as four and five years ago. bince that time they went out into a world where the end not only justified, but glorified the means. It is not unlikely that their regard for a mode of regulation as esthetic as the honor system may have slipped a ew notches since 1940. Through the pages of the Daily, Tar Heel, let's explain and vitalize the system which is actually the rock be,d upon which all our many student freedoms are predicated. SS Number Two: The Seat of Knowledge While it may seem a minor thing in cantrast with the many large prob- ems which face the University and the student, I'd like to urge remodel ing of the lecture-room, seats in such halls as Murphy and Saunders. Per haps they could prove more uncom fortable, but just how is a major problem. Slumpitis is an occupational disease of education at Chapel Hill due to these out-moded benches. Sep arate chairs, fashioned with the new sciences to actually fit the curve of the body would at least give the im pression of attentiveness on the part of the student. !J And while they're ripping out the chairs in the next few weeks, light ing fixtures might well be modern ized. SS Number Three: Salud, Good Neighbor One more plank has recently been added to our bridge of friendship stretching to the South. . .at least from the sound of things. For the past week or so, our office has been invaded by the strains of Latin Amer ican rhythms. Stop the door and it slips in through the transom, under cracks in the molding. We ventured into the next room a few days ago and found an attractive girl intent upon the latest rhumba step. No long er will Duke students be able to shake the finger of scorn at our high-pressure Latin America culture courses and cause us to blush by ask ing, "Shall we rhumba?" I wonder if the dance instructor realized just what he's walking, or rather, dancing into. A powerful blow for better understanding. That closes it up for the Beef Bri gade this afternoon. Washington Merry-Go-Round By Drew Pearson SAMPLES SHOW AMERICAN ualties." PUBLIC IS THINKING ABOUT Mrs. Catherine C. Anderson, New SOVIET York City "Your earnestness in Washington Ma"hy people con- working out a plan for getting along tinue to write me about my 5-year with Eussia is commendable. How plan for peace and friendship with ever, it has one great big flaw. How Russia. Their letters, judged not only are you going to get Stalin to adopt by volume but by contents, indicate it?". that the American public is both Walter P. Masincup, Washington, thinking intensely and worrying about D. C. "Why not have millions of the problems of Russia. That in itself Russians correspond with millions of is a healthy sign. Americans? This might be done under The majority of the letters favor the supervision of the ministers of the proposed plan to win over the the churches in the two countries." Russian people regardless of their Edward S. Allen, Ames, Iowa government by an exchange of in- "The Soviet Union is clearly impelled formation, students, musical and by fear and by resentment at any in theatrical programs, and by permit- feriority of position. Cannot these ting one American radio station and feelings be allayed in such ways as newspaper to operate in Moscow with not to increase Russia's power to do a reciprocal Russian station and great harm? . . . Could we not offer newspaper in New York. demilitarization of Alaska on condi- Some reaction, however, has been tion that a corresponding section of negative and critical. Siberia were likewise disarmed? . . . Most of the letters reveal such an The logical answer of peace-loving interesting cross-section of the mind nations would be a proposal to dis of the American public, that I am arm and internationalize all essen letting those who are thinking about tial straits and canals Dardanelles, Russia write today's column. Here Gibraltar, Suez, Panama." are carefully selected samples of RUSSIANS IIAVE niGII PRAISE what the American public thinks yt tt o N. Sidrow, Washington, D. C. "I spent eight months with Russian sailors in the capacity of instructor about how we can avoid war with Rus sia. What Do YOU Say? JletteM 7a Ike Zdifoi A Coed Complains By Sam Daniels The official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where it is published daily, except Mondays, examination and vacation periods; during the official summer terms, it is published semi-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Entered as second-clans matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price: $5.00 per college year. COMPLETE LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF UNITED PRESS The opinions expressed by the columnists are their own and not neces sarily those of The Daily Tar Heel. BILL WOESTENDIEK ROLAND GIDUZ . IRWIN SMALLWOOD BILL SELIG ........ Editor Managing Editor i Sports Editor BURTON MYERS .. Business Manager Circulation Manager Associate Editors: Gene Aenchbacher, Fred Flagler, Eddie Allen. Editorial Staff: Matt Hodgson, R. H. Hamilton, Jud Kin berg. Bob Jones, Sam Daniels, Bob Finehout. Bet tie Washburn. Desk EtirTOR: Barron Mills. Mews STAFFS Roy Moose, Darley Lochner, Jo Pugh, J. C. Green, Arnold Schulman, Burke Shipley. Bob Morrison, Vic Robinson, Fran Walker, Bill Jabine. Sam Suramerlin, Eddie Blankstein, Sam Whitehall, Helen Iiighwater. NlGKT Editors ; Barron Mills, Bill Sexton. Night Sports Editors: Howard Merry, Bob Goldwater. Jim Pharr. Subscription Manackr: Brantley A. McCoy, Jr. Business Staff: Suzanne Barclay, Ed Parnell. Natalie Selig, Barbara Thorson. Strowd Ward. FOR THIS ISSUE Night Editor: Bill Sexton Sports: Irwin Smallwood Today's Question Do you think the DTH should run student columns on world affairs ? The Answers No, student columnists writing on world affairs only reflect the opinions of the particular papers they read One reading PM would get an en tirely different slant from one reading the Charlotte Observer. Why present either side in the DTH? B. L. Sher- rill, Gastonia. No, I do not. Not that I don't be lieve in freedom of speech but that the average student's knowledge of world affairs is very meager and his opinion is not based on analysis of facts but upon his background. O, R. Magill, Dudlin, Va. If a student is sincere in his be liefs and is not easily swayed by public opinion and by dime-story com mentators Yes. Guy Weatherly, Goldsboro. Yes, I firmly believe that they should for it's time students began thinking more about world affairs and also expressed their views Eli zabeth Eaddy, Memphis, Term. One of the four basic rights of an American is freedom of the press. Therefore, if a Carolina student has enough interest in world affairs to write an article on some phase of it, I think he should have the privi lege of publishing in the DTH so other students may read it. Kath- erine McLean, Weaverville. Yes, students should have a chance to express their opinion about world affairs. In that way, they would be come more interested in world affairs and would form clearer and more definite ideas for themselves Mary Ellen Reaves, Hamlet. Next Issue Do you think the city should have prohibited the sale of beer on Sunday ? Dear Sir: In Arnold Schulman's article Caro lina Gentlemen Thrill Visitors from Greensboro, which appeared in Sun day's Tar Heel, there was a statement quoted from the mouths of WCites which should make every Tar Heel take stock of himself. I am referring to the words "Even Lena the Hyena could get a date in Chapel Hill." Now considering the looks and the f ar- and-wide reputation of Lena the Hy ena I'd say that is a No. one slam against Carolina in general. To begin with I . don't think the Carolina gentlemen should be any too flattered by the implications within the statement. It sounds as though they will take anything and don't care what, when they get hard up for a date. And the high quality and standards of the character of the ty pical Carolina gentleman prevents my believing that. It is true that they are at a disadvantage in this ratio busi ness but that doesn't mean their ideals concerning women are lowered any. It merely means they have a lot of competition and are using it advan tageously to better their methods of persuasion, (i.e., smarter dress, brighter conversation, and better lines). Not only does this hit the men on the campus. The statement holds a subtle suggestion that the Carolina coed is not all she should be and that the men date her because she is all that is available. Take it from me, the coeds don't like THAT! In spite of the fact the girls get numerous op portunities to date they won't date anybody and everybody. But they do like to get to know the men and they like to date those they LIKE, not just because they're anxious to gad about but because they enjoy going out with them,. That's just doin' wV.nr. rnmes natcherlv. And even though she could maybe date some body no matter how she looked she still tries to be as attractive as pos-J sible. That in itself is complimentary to the men. Bv all this I don't mean to infer that Carolina coeds resent outsiders, especially WCites who are University sisters. But I do mean that they may have gotten the wrong idea about us. And we want to clear up any ideas that they may have about the Caro lina coed taking advantage of her position and being selfish enough to want to keep other girls away. Most of us aren't like the coed mentioned in Mr. Schulman's article. We don't mind their competition. After having first chance by being here with them if the WCites can come over and beat our time, by walking off with our men it's just our tough luck and time we did something about it. We realize how lucky we are to be here with so many wonderful males. Most of "RUSSIA HIDING POVERTY" Charles K. Coleman, Lyndhurst, N. in radar and communication with tho J. "I have been in the U. S. mer- U: S. Navy. After discharge, in order chant service since 1922, during to learn more about the Russian peo which time I have been to Russia five pie, I obtained a position with the times. While there I noticed anything Soviet Purchasing Commission. mechanical that came to view (I am "I find they are just plain people, a marine engineer). The vast major- They do not believe in diplomatic lan- ity of these machines were of for- guage because they do not understand eisrn manufacture. The few machines it. ' I crossed this country twice as that were unlabeled were obviously guide for a group of their engineers poor imitations of foreign products, and really learned to know them . . . Why then do you maintain that a Russian people respect men who are country that is unable to compete true to their own country. By that I with such small nations as Switzer- mean the men who defend the ideals land, Belgium, Sweden, etc., in world of our government stand higher in markets can possibly produce an their eyes than those who don't, atomic bomb, long-range jet-pro- t neVer met a Russian yet who did pelled planes, etc., in the short period not have high respect for the U. S. of five or even ten years? Russia has They have highest admiration for never produced, with all her tremen- our engineering and the way we do dous resources, one essential com- business. Unless I am a blind fool, modity that has found a market out- these people are naturally friendly to side her own borders. us. They like direct conversations, and "My belief is that Russia is hiding direct answers, nothing more dangerous than extreme "For instance, they wanted me to poverty and the Baltic states plus ask some business and professional Czechoslovakia and Poland will pro- men what type of education did you vide acute indigestion to Russia for have?' They were very surprised when the next 50 years." t told them that was not a proper Mrs. Mary Ellen Lewis, Sheffield, question. They were amazed at the Ala. "Let's start with your five-year ease wjth which they get any informa plan at once. I will gladly take one tion they want here, and at the way Russian student into my home and some 0f our so-called capitalists re keep him (or her) for nothing if need ceived them. If only our government be while he is in this country. I'll made an effort to get the American teach him English and probably learn pe0ple to know the Russians, we Russian in turn, and will, in every would be so much better off! way, treat him as my own child. I'd Mr Pearson, our government has be only too delighted if my two sons too many so-called experts on the would go to Russia on a similar mis- Russian nation who don't know any slon' thing, about Russia. We have either "I feel that no sacrifice would be lovers or haters. What we need are too great to bring about a lasting Americans who are willing to ex friendship between our two great na- change calls with Russia and yet be tions. My two sons came back un- Americans also. This type of people scathed . . . Millions of American wm penetrate the Russian's inbred boys would not have come back if it suspicion. were not for 20 million Russian cas- Tn ronrliKsinn Mr Ppnrcmn ho American of an average type is in no us came here from women's colleges danger of becoming Communist, but where we were the ones at the top Russians risk a real danger of get in the ratio. So we speak from ex- ting Americanized oh, so easily!" perience when we say we would have Mrs. A. C. Johnson, Lafayette, welcomed an opportunity to compete Calif. "Mr. Stalin and his henchmen with our classmates for the attentions admire only two things in another of some young man as desirable as the country military might, and rough, "Carolina gentleman." unvarnished statement of policy Sincerely, backed by that might. Paradoxical as GLENNA ANGE it seems, there lies peace." 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