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-f I THE DAILY TAR HEEL ' .- "... . WEDNESDAY, JULY 91947 PflCA Two dry A possible presidential veto that has not fazed the Rep ublican Congress in the least is the bill making it legal for a veteran to cash in his terminal leave bond after September 1. The roll-call vote that summoned the full strength of the House down to the last man, will soon go before the Senate, and it is 'certain to pass. . But why shouldn't the bill pass? The only group that has had one word to say against' it was the Treasury, arid .it has not worked against the issue. It simply stated that it will cause in flation. , There are many things in favor of the .measure that would give the GI's an opportunity to convert their bonds into cash. The money is rightfully theirs and it should be available for their use when they need it. The Army Times Vet-Letter dis closes the story of the "sharp operators" who are on the job to convert the veteran's bond into ready cash. The' bond owner gets 50 per cent of the face value of the bond in cash now. When the bond owner signs the bond upon maturity, he receives an additional 25 per cent. Rackets like this will be smashed by the new bill arid veterans will be able to get ready cash in case of emergency for the paper that today is not worth a cent. But bond owners should not liquidate -their bonds just be- cause they have the opportunity. The bonds should be kept un til they mature, or until the owner is in dire need of additional funds. Remember, they are drawing two and one-half percent interest per annum, and are helping the owner as well as com bating inflation. Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1 Oato 6 Leaves of book , 11-Veer wildly 12 Spanish farms 14 Indefinite article 15 Roman six lft-Robin 17 Exist 18 Period of devotion 21 Bad been borne 33 Closest 25 Precious ones 26 Mine entrance 27 Four-base hit , 29 Compass point ' SO Cut S3 Part of "to be" 34 Velvetlike fabric 35 Scrape with something sharp 38 More rational 40 Narrow waterways' 42 Musical signs 44 Abrupt 45 Dawn (comb. -form I 48 Suffix changing verbs into nouns 47 Clergyman's degree 48 Musical note 49 Camp follower 51 Digs 53 Secret meeting 54 Large plants Answer to 'today's puzzle may be found on Page 4. DMr. k, VwUtt Futon rhUi, to 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 ho I '8 '9 1 22 w, 4? 50 fr 52 1 ' riii lmmm JLotJ-bb , DOWN 1 Paddled 2 Biblical city 3 Go back 4 French river 5 Printer's means 6 Team . 7 Pleased 8 Idle wanderer 9 Edward 10 Curved swords 11 Garden flower 13 Realize - 19 Conceited 20 Whitish 22 Child's word for father 24 Villages 28 Comes together 50 Predatory womttf 51 Declared 82 Beast of burden PU 3 Elephant driver S4 Impudently 35 Twist together ' 38 Cuble meters 37 Medieval serfe S3 8odium (symb.) 41 Less polished 4 S Kind 1 50 President's Initials 31 Delirium truant (abbr.l B2 Votre eminence (abbr.) Carolina Spirit Becoming Ghost Due to Formality, Haste, Neglect By Russell G. Baldwin Greatness is a combination of simple things. The University of 'North Carolina is great because it contains enough of those simple things vital to greatness. I cower before the thought of naming the many things which contribute to Carolina's greatness. It is beyond the ability of any man to define greatness, and I am not one to attempt the impossible. One of the pillars of greatness of a university, destructive Pastime Vandalism has again become a favorite pastime in Chapel Hill. Dr. Lawson, who mapped out the local golf course and has supervised its activities since its beginning, reports in a let ter elsewhere on this page an account of property destruction at the privately-owned country club. In willing the property to the club Dr. Coker made the re quest that no hunting, fishing or nature destruction be allowed on the property. The clause was also inserted in the deed. Since the golf, course was constructed around 18 years ago there has been continuous trespassing upon it. Students have persisted in holding parties, and the like, on the greens and on the porch of the clubhouse at night. During the past year it has grown to such a degree that wives of the club members have hesitated and even refused to play on the course because of the debris that is left on the greens, marking the spot of the act ivities of the night before. But until the fourth ofj July "there had been no vandalism. The club property will be strictly policed from npw on to pre vent such future displays of ungentlemanly conduct: Let us hope x that patrolling of the property will not have to be a permanent feature of the club and that vandalism and deliberate trespassing and devastation of private property will cease. The Plebian Gentry WRITE AWAY Vandalism The country club and its golf course is owned and conducted by a distinct organization. Its entire pro- they MUST do as the members of the club and arrange themselves in four somes (not including a beginner) be fore they appear at the course. They must respect the greens and fairway, and replace divots. Any violator will perty, club house and golf course, j be excluded from the privilege of has clearly, visable, posted placards advising that trespassers, hunters, fishers etc. will be prosecuted. Stu dents have been using the property as a rendezvous for petting and drink ing parties almost daily the care taker must visit and clean waste mat ter from the "greens". It has be come a disgusting nuisance, and re cently vandalism occured. The night of the 4th of July, a party parked around the little storage house at No. . 1 tee window panes were smashed, benches wrecked, a drink stand over turned, four crates of empty bottles were broken and thrown over the entire No. 1 fairway. This is not the first .time destruc tion of private property on private land has . occurred. These occasions, and the evidence at hand, points clearly to some vicious, unscrupulous, student drinking party which mayJ result in the club's elimination of stu dent 'particip ation. Plans are to have the property (entire acreage) patrolled nightly. The officer with full legal power may arrest any trespassers after 8 o'clock on the property and the officers of the club, with full agreement and promise of the Dean of Students, will prose cute any and all to the. full extent of the law in the Chapel Hill court. "Remember the property is posted land." . .. The officers of the golf club have offered the students (those who play golf, not beginners) the privilege of playing the course. However, these are days when the course is crowded with members 'and studants, conse quently many are turned away and not permitted to play on such days. . In the future, if the practi6e is con tinued of allowing students to play, playing the country club course. Dr. Robert B. Lawson Chairman Club Directors. Carried Away Dear Sir: Could it not be possible that Harold Brock in discussing the connection ft between preparedness and wars was carried away by his thesis and erred in too freely applying generalizations to a specific case? This is a failing so common that one need not be ashamed too much if caught in it. In order to try to bring order out of a riot of statistics gone wild, it may suffice to mention a few simple facts. In the first place we are con sidering the question of prepared ness of one nation only, the United States, which is no more to be group ed, either geographically or ideolo gically, with nations Of the Eastern Hemisphere than is a policeman to be identified with a gang of quarreling boys. In the second place, one mar vels at the facility with which the lack of preparedness of the United States prior to the two World Wars is pass ed over, this which may be the crux of the while question. Finally, this is perhaps the first time that any one suggested that isolationism on the part of the United States be con committant with arming rather than disarming. Historical' precedent seems again aisregardea when con venient. v , There is undoubtedly some truth in what Harold Brock says, but let's have it more calmly and coolly and less hysterically. Your truly, ; FREDERICK MILLS Worker's 'Birth of Thought ' Credited to GOP Activities r By Earl Heffner Whatever else the wild wanderings of the Republicans are creating, the activities of the paunch politicians at least are giving birth to thought al though sometimes by . Caesarean section to some of the nation's more plebian gentry. Several night ago, I was unfortunate enough to ride in one of the Rockefeller's Rolls (We roll your pocketbook), Riders, more com monly known as the careening cabs.3 : While 1 1 bounced along with the driver in his over-sized jeep, two night owls, back seat politicians, were discussing the Taft-Hartley labor miscarriage. Their conversation went something like this: Mike: "You know, Jim, it's gettin' to whare a man's 'fraid to quit his job without breaking one of those damn laws." Jim: "Yea, I know. Those crooked devils we have in Congress want to turn this country over to the Rus sians.' v Mike: "Maybe they aren't so bad at heart. It's just that they drink that damn vodka that MolotofF gives 'em so they won't know when he's pulling he wool over their eyes." Jim: "Damned if 'in it doan look thata way. Why look'it that bill that Taft got passed. Even Truman couldn't stop the from making it a law." Mike: "Yea, but you just wait. Our labor men in Washington ain't agonna stand for stuff like that. I was reading just the other day where Sidney Hillman of the A. F. of L. and Green of the C. I. O. doan like the bill. They'll tell Taft a thing or two and then we workers will show Congress how America should be run." V At first glance, this appears to be a profane, shameful conversation. Profane it is. Shamef ul ? , Yes, to an extent. Sure, the character, didn't know that Hillman has been dead lo these many years. But he probably never thought much about anything until the present Congress began its Republican-sponsored program. History will record the worth of this pro gram. Bat the program itself marks a new trend, a trend of thinking by the working man. That in itself is a major accompiisnmenr. for a thinking nation never yet has fallen to the wiles of subversive peoples whether these be Fascists or Com munists. Maybe their thinking wasn't straight. And maybe their facts were completely in error. But never was a baby born talking save Gargantua who left from his mother shouting, "Drink! Drink! Drink!" And maybe he heard of Jeff's. or of any organization, is "esprit de corps" the spirit of the group. Be yond that, I will make no dogmatic assertions. Pead Spirit The famed Carolina spirit, is be coming a ghost. It is dying because of smugness, formality and haste. It is dying because those who must foster it are overly concerned with more tangible things. Students who knew pre-war Carolina sigh wist fully and get "that far-away look in their eyes; and, at. times, a tear finds its way, into the stream of sad dened emotions. Tjbat magical air of friendliness that pervaded the pre war Carolina campus is nd more. It fell before the onslaught of war and there it lies today, trampled in the dust of apathy. Several Factors , School spirit is composed of sev eral factors; but chief among them is the relationship which exists among its students. The traditional spirit at Carolina has been one of friendliness and informality; a common pervading spirit of enthusiasm, devotion, and jealous regard for the honor of the group. That spirit, great and essen tial as it is, has been deserted and left to die; When I was 'a member of the A.S.T.P. (Army Specialized Training Program), I had the good fortune of being assigned to Auburn, Ala. The campus with its stately buildings had a forbidding look and I quite naturally felt ill at ease. But not for long. Even before the college paper, The Plainsman, blared forth with, "Make those A.S.T.'s speak" and numerous other slogans, we were captured by the friendly atmosphere, the warmth of fellowship. Rarely do two students on this campus speak unless they know each other. That is a mistake. Tiie exchange of greetings is the recognition of a common bond, of kinship, a vicarious sharing of the joys and sorrows of others, an expression of friendship. Sss CAROLINA SPIRIT Page U Mudville Mutterings Victory Village Grows Up: Council Tackles Problems By Dan Sapp Victory Village 'has suddenly become an honest to gosh village and finds itself faced with honest to gosh problems. The village council wrestled with some of these problems in its regular meeting Monday night . v Dick Balance, who is chairman of the fire-fighting committee, reported that progresses being made, though slowly, toward gettir -1 fire extinguisher for each apartment in$ Cement-Mixer World Outside World Proves Hard As Poet Deserts Arboretum By Bob Sain "Athelstan," I asked, "where were you' last week? We missed your goat cry; the arboretum was empty without your satyr-sounds to startle young lovers on their grassy couches." My friend, the poet Athelstan Boniface, was' democratically sipping coffee with me at the Y. He stroked his long chin, on which a goatee was a-grow-8 ing. Looks at World "I looked at the world last week. I grew tired of the village and ventured into the cement-mixer furj of the in dustrial world." "And you found ..." I prompted. "I found many things. I found peoplo with their forearms tooth gnawed to the elbow the result of fingernail-biting about the prospects of a war. I found one man certain that the flying discs were little re- connaisance planes with Russians in them. I found a housewife saying, 'I don't worry about food prices; I've quit eating,' and I found one young woman who said, 'I like Chapel Hill even if it is a hot-bed of Communism.' Needless to say, I inquired as to how she had ever decided that the village was a pmc-sizea xvioscow. w en, that's what. the papers say she an swered me, and I told her forthwith not ever to believe what the papers said." , No Parlor Pinks Athelstan shook his head doubious- ly, "I have found many things "in this sequestered hamlet. I have found reactionaries and Republicans; I have found Jew-baiters and Negro-1 haters; I have found would-be lib erals who regard Westbrook Pegler as a second Jehovah; I have found simple, happy souls content to gaze at the coeds without regard for their political leanings; but so .help me Thomas Wolfe, I have never seen one single communist, nay, not even a parlor pink! If there is communism in Chapel Hill, it has, already gone underground," he concluded. Foul Situation Ath urned his cup up and drained the last of the muddy fluid. "It's a foul situation," he said, "and I am growing tired of it. I do not care whether a man is a Communist or a Jehovah Witness; I do not care whether he is a fundamentalist or an existentialist; I do not care wThat he is. It is none of my business." I tactfully changed the subject. Have you written any more poetry, Athelstan?" "Yes," he said, "I have been watching the moon. Last night the moon was like a great glowing wound in the phosphorous body of night . . ." And he continued in that vein until he saw a girl he know, whom he fol lowed out. the village. The present equipment is something less than adequate and the need is great. Lamar Ager reporting for the safety committee brought word that the roads are actually going to be paved after all. Ager reported that top soil is being laid on the roads and that paving will begin the first of next week. The safety committee has also been at work on speeding. Ager told the council that road signs giv ing the speed limits had been ordered and are expected soon. He expressed the opinion that thre is a real need for someone to enforce the 15 and 10 miles per hour speed limits which have been agreed upon for the vil lage area. Bill Bragaw, chairman of the council, asked that all council members and everyone living in Vic tory Village observe these speed limits until they can be enforced by law. He said that only through coop eration of the entire population could these rules be enforced. Aside from . matters weighty and governments, there are problems in our village which cannot be legislat ed. There is a feeling in certain quar ters that the children of the recently arrived Jackson Circle citizens cry louder and longer than do those of the "Old Guard." This may be par tially due to the fact that the offend ing children have been suppressed for so long by Chapel Hill landladies. Perhaps as soon as they realize that they may cry whenever they wish without fear of eviction they will lose interest, and peace will be re stored. From another quarter comes the story of an irate father who wishes to pass a law limiting the amount of noise and length of parties. It may be difficult to ascertain just how loud a loud party can be but maybe by means of a seismograph this can be done. The creative urge is running ram pant among the newly arrived. Any where you may see an astonished Vic torian sofa getting a coat of orange paint or having its legs removed. One couple has gone to the bath room for inspiration. What wa3 once a very necessary article of bathroom furniture has been converted into a dressing table bench with hooks around the inside for shoes. This column is dedicated to Caro lina's forgotten women, the student wives. If you have anything of inter est which you want published, scan dalous or otherwise as long as it isn't libelous, come by apartment 196-A, Jackson Circle or the D.T.H. office. REPRESENTED FOH NATIONAL. ADVERTISING BY National Advertising Service, Inc.' ? College Publishers Representative i 4ZO Madison Ave. . New York. n. Y. chicaoo Boston Los Angeles San Francisco Member Pbsoc'raled GDlIe6iale Pres; The opinions expressed by the columnists are their own and not necessarily those of the Daily Tar Heel. - nhei? 61 u ews.PaPer of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. 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