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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1946- A Little Thoughtf ulness One of the many problems confronting students struggling for an education this year is the acute shortage of books in many courses. To meet the problem, cooperation is required on the part of student and professors alike. It has been called to our attention on more than one occasion that books placed in the library by individual professors for perusal by unfortunate class members who have no personal textbooks have disappeared from the library. Such occurrences are inexcusable, but that doesn't prevent their occurring, and the sincere, honest students are the ones who suffer. ,We daresay that the persons removing the books from the shelves are probably the very same people who aren't particu larly interested in their studies. Be that as it may, anyone tak ing books from the library without authorization is not only lacking in any sense of responsibility and displaying a complete lack of thoughtf ulness, but he is violating the campus code. Sure, the library is overcrowded. Sure, the books are scarce and you have to wait your turn to use them sometimes. No in telligent person can use these reasons to rationalize his taking the books home with him. Selfishness is a trait all of us should get rid of in a hurry. While on the subject, we might add a few notes to the profes sor from the student's angle. The majority of professors on the campus have recognized the difficulties involved and have made every effort to provide books by even placing personal copies of their books on the library shelves. They have also been cog nizant of this fact in making assignments. However, a few of the men who teach in one strict vein and can't change their technique whatsoever have failed to make any allowance for the book shortage. As a result they have continued to make outlandish assignments which their students couldn't possibly complete because they didn't have enough text books, Luckily, these instances are rare, but if the men respon sible will realize that possibly their class doesn't have enough books available to do long assignments, we're certain the stu dents would be very appreciative. 'Publications Need Women' More than a few members of the male student body advocate an exodus of the coed element on the campus. They advance various reasons for their beliefs, and it seems one of the big gest ones is that economics has stepped into the picture. This economics is the supply and demand theory, and no one needs the editorial page to tell them that the supply of Carolina coeds is strictly limited with the demand virtually 500 per cent great er than last year this time. The theory of those who seek the departure of the coeds is e that for one thing the economic situation provides coeds with something too much like paradise. The campus Joes figure that if they get a date, they are unfortunate because the girl has the say-so all the time. Simply because there aren't enough women to go around, Miss Carolina coed can easily say jump and her date has to move. In other words a reversal of the situation during the war when the coeds had to sit home at night when they preferred an evening out, just doesn't suit the Carolina gentlemen. Now the DTH has no theories as to how this terrible dilemma can be alleviated. In fact we would rather lean toward the coed element in that they are just gaining the spoils of war. Maybe they could be a little less obvious about their good fortune, but who would argue that the men on the campus would be any dif ferent if they had the chance. Anyhow how could the editors of the various publications possibly get their work done without talented coeds ghost-writing for them. Yes, keep the coeds. Somehow publications would be inferior if it weren't for the feminine touch. Ihtm wlp Wax Tha official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, whore it is published daily, except Mondays, examination and vacation periods; dhtrins the official summer terms, it is published semi-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Xntered as second-class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill. N. C, under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscription price: 15.00 per college year. COMPLETE LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP 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 Sports Editor BURTON MYERS Business Manager Circulation Manager Associate Editors: Gene Aenchbacher, Fred Flagler, Eddie Allen. Editorial Staff: Jud Kinberg. Tom Eller, Matt Hodgson, Bob Jones, Sam Daniels, Bob Finehout, Bettie Washburn. PhK Kihtob : Rarron Mills. News Staff: -Roy Moose, Jo Pugh, Darley Lochner, Larry Kent, Sigsbee Miller, Brooksie Popkins, Burke Shipley, Ken Rothwell, Joy Blumenthal. Bill Jabine, Eddie Blankenstein, Ed Joyner, Harry Snowden, June Sauer, Joe Dukes, Fran Walker, Jane Page Means, Vic Robinson, Bob Morrison, Sam Whitehall, Helen Highwater, Night Editoim. Barron Mills, Bill Sexton. NWHT Sporth Editors; Howard Merry. Bob floldwater. Jim Pharr. Business Staff: Howard Bailey, Suzanne Barclay, Brantley McCoy, Natalie Selig, Bar bara Thorson. . Advertising Managers: Ed Parrtell. Nancy Waugh. . Advertising Staff: Paul Baschon, Ed Campbell, Bettie Cheatham, Tommy Hughes, Janet Jolly, Adelaide McLarty, Colen Thomas, John York. FOR THIS ISSUE Managing Editor: Barron Mills Sports Editor: Jim Pharr Cfr. 1944 ty Uiut.d fe.hr. SySc. Uc !. RS- U. S. P.I. OH. A tikf iwnrf IO-IS "Bottle Fatigue" World Affairs 'Blame Russia' Diplomacy No Answer to World Peace By Manny Margolis East is east, west is west, and the twains still have not met. Hands across the ocean. Arms across Alaska. Diplomacy and anatomy. Confusion. The American people continue to move the previous questions. Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of atomic energy? Or should we put the fear of God and Truman into these Russians? What instrument shall the U. S. play in the new world symphony the harp of peace or the atom-tom of oblivion? Jimmy Byrnes, in his report to the nation on Friday, answered none of these questions. America must be firm, he said. America remains tough, he stated. Jimmy continues tak-f CPU Roandtable .i Prosperity Hopeless Unless American Laziness Subsides By George Stenhouse For one of the few times in its history the Carolina Political Union will engage in a purely speculative discussion the economic future of the United States. Such a discussion will, therefore, quite naturally be built around theoretical premises with factual information being used only as evidence of trends. The value of a discussion of this nature lies in the fact that it lends itself to national introspection and the consequent develop ment of personal economic philoso phies. . What are the significant facts? (1) Demand for all types of goods is overwhelming. (2) Ability to pay is unusually widely distributed among the people. (3) TJespite some critical shortages in certain kinds of materials a wealth of basic natural resources remains at our disposal. (4) Our industrial leaders are eager to produce and have the productive potential to do so. (5) There is an enormous amoun of private savings seeking investmen in new enterprise. These facts substantially .point to a period of great prosperity, and there are many more which indicate the same result. But withal a sixth fact remains self evident. In over a year the combination of American land, labor, capital, industrial trends and political leaders have not pro duced that prosperity. How then does this fact fit into the speculative picture? What trend does it reflect? In the ultimate analysis this last fact points to the trend of America's unwillingness to work for prosperity It then foIIowsHtnat unless this trend is revised there will be no prosperity. An America of industry, wealth, and resource which in a matter of months mobilized itself for war has failed in a year to find its way back to nor malcy. ing the path of least political resis tance in explaining away the present power-politics maze blame the Rus sians. But that answers nothing. It mere ly states what is. It underlines present American foreign policy, which has netted the American peo ple nothing but insecurity, pessi mism, and fear. The great Ameri can Empire of world prestige built up during the Roosevelt Era is being weakened by the loss of one sphere of affluence after an other. Underlying it all is fear of Russia. We are told that the way to stop Russia is to block the political and social revolutions which the disinte gration of Fascism has left in its wake. But, in actuality, what has even tuated from this policy? What have been its consequences? Instead of damming the Russian tide and out- competing Communism, we antagon ize the one and strengthen the other. We tacitly admit that the fight for Greek, Spanish, Chinese, and Middle East independence 5s "RJussian-in spired." And notjmerely tacitly. Why we even go so far as to label their leaders Communists even when they aren't. It is high time that we Ameri cans realized that the diplomatic victories which we have been win ning at Paris, at Lake Success, and at Ankara have done nothing to ward winning a people's peace. It would seem, from indications of the past few days, that our leaders have no such peace in mind. For examples . . '. News Item (AP): "The United States has more super-size bombers today than when the war ended. The Army Air Forces now counts more than 3,000 "very heavy bombard ment" type aircraft. All the present force of VHB's are B-29's or B-29 modifications." Yet, our delegate to the "peace" conference, Mr. Byrnes, finds that we can't afford a loan to the Czecho slovak Government at the Dresent time. News Item (UP): "Army and Navy officials are requesting Presi dent Truman not to cut any de fense appropriations at this time. Such cuts, they say, would greatly interfere with present plans for the maintenance of American military security." On the other hand, Soviet Finance Minister, A. G. Zverev, has recom mended to the Supreme Soviet (Par liament) a reduction of over 11 bil lion dollars in Russia's defense bud get for the next fiscal year. When we ask why our government deems it advisory to continue beat ing its ploughshares into swords, we are told that the Russians respect power. It is astonishing to what ex tremes we sometimes go just in order to gain Russian "respect." Tribute to Parker Dear Sir: Sunday's editorial on Pete Parker was excellent, and perhaps it is best to tell a tragic story in a very few words as that editorial did. It is hard to write about Parker anyway. But since, despite the wills of some more influential than he, and despite the ten or twelve thousand miles that sep arate him from Carolina, his spirit lives on here in the minds and hearts of many who make up this univer sity, I thought I might try to tell those who are new here, and hence do not know him, something about a man who had a very great influence on all who knew him, and therefore on this school. It is interesting to know, for in stance, that there were, and possibly still are a few students here who came here expressly because Roland Parker came here. They followed him as the ancient Greeks followed their favorite teachers from city to city. Parker's incredibly acute grasp on the basic causes and motivations of , world strife and his deep understand ing of the minds of men were the two qualities that he strived above all else to impart to his students and his friends. None of us could ever in our wildest dreams have hoped to approach him in this. His greatest gift is the power of making others think. He would fre quently toss an idea into a roomful of men and they would go after it. Often it was an idea. that they would otherwise never have had. Pete Parker is a true liberal and that is a dangerous word in these days when a "liberal" believes in liberty only for his side. Parker is not just a liberal talker and doer, he is a lib eral thinker. What of Pete Parker as a friend? It's even harder to write about that. He is forthright and direct, but never rude. He would lend, and frequently did lend the last cent he had in his pocket. He feels everybody's troubles as if they were his own but he is par tially, at least, repaid for this by feel ing everybody's .happiness as if it too were his own. Most of us (and this certainly in cludes myself) have no idea why or how this university flew off on a tan gent during the war and flung away its best of the younger men by some mad kind of centrifugal force. All we know is that when a dean who is given a leave of absence while in the service finds himself, upon his return, rele gated to the basement of Peabody building in the capacity of veterans' adviser, something is wrong. Frederic D. Lewis On Wallace's Speech Dear Editor: Last night in Hill Hall Mr. Wallace made a report on the Students' Con gress in Prague, to which he was this school's representative. The differ ence between the report he should have given and the one he gave is the only difference between the New York Times and the funny papers. He utterly failed to give any sort of coherent outline of the aims and objectives of the group, and one lis tening to his talk was left completely in doubt as to what, if anything, trans pired at the convention. Wallace gave some human interest stories, and one about the Czech who cried when the entire Dutch delegation left the Con gress in protest to the dictatorial con stitution adopted was particularly good. But he forgot that his audience was not familiar with the constitution and could not intelligently sympa thize with the Czech. It is possible we might have rejoiced in the Czech's tears had we known what the dispute between the Czechs and Dutch was. But about one point Wallace was emphatic. He positively disliked the Catholic members of the American delegation. He termed them "reac tionaries" who mouthed their instruc- Gold Bands Return To WCUNC Campus By Barron Mills We see via the "Carolinian" that seven gold bands have returned to the WC campus. They are not talking about the common garden variety gold bands that one sees at the one-night stand country circuses that hoboe their way to every Jonesboro and Smithfield in the nation nor the Tam pa Nugget bands from the cigar by the same name, but the kind that is given away free after two canoe rides on Lake Igotchee and an invite to the Black Cats' annual waltz-me-round. However the music band and "the" band" do have one thing in common. . . both have brass sections. Of course these particular bands do have a cer tain touch that gives it a definite ad vantage over the other varieties. It is one of the few bands that Petrillo has not tried to unionize. That there are several important peculiarities that give it this distinction. First of all it would be highly ridiculous to limit the wearing of a gold band. After carefully weighing each de See GOLD BANDS, page U tions. As the only example of their reactionary tendencies Wallace told of the argument these 'Catholics put up to change a word in a resolution con demning certain types of government. The Catholics wanted the word "totali tarian" used instead of the one which denotes only the German species of totalitarianism. The Communist members of the American delegation must have objected for Wallace said there was a considerable row. The Communists know, if Wallace does not, that the dictatorship of the pro letariat is still with them for a long spell before the promised dissolution - . m mm occurs. These same "reactionaries somehow "sabotaged" the American delegation because they received diplo matic visas instead of regular pass ports as the others did. There was an enormous gap in the cause and ef fect relationship here. Wallace's thesis, if there was one, was that the "liberals" are caught be tween the two elements, the "reaction aries" and the Communists, and that the "liberals" should attack both at once. This sounds like good aavice for Wallace himself, since, except for an allusion to the bloc-voting of the Slav delegates, he devoted all of his meagre talent in one direction last night. Inasmuch as Wallace dismally neg ected to give his audience any con crete information on the Students' Congress, but instead contented him self, but not the audience, with emc- ional side-lights so like Mr. Wal- ace when one recalls his notorious to Hell with the Legislature" speech ast year in Raleigh one is left to wonder whether sending a delegate to another such meeting is worthwhile. Miles McCormick. 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