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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
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Cducation for Voters
Again in the spring elections of this year,
voters will be given constitutional amend
ments on which to pass judgment. This will
entail a lot of work on the part of student
government, officials who must explain to
the students what the amendments accomp
lish and it requires something more than
work to get the student body to read the
'explanation of the amendments.
From all indications it seems that the num
ber of constitutional amendments will be at
least equal the seven of last year. Thursday
evening, the student Legislature, in short
order, and with hardly any heated discus
sion, passed three of the four bills that would
amend sections of our constitution.
One of the amendments, which surprised
us tremendously because it has been the sub
ject of many a heated discussion since last
spring, is a provision that would clarify the
position of the Interfraternity council and
their jurisdiction over cases involving the
Coed Visiting agreement. The amendment
as proposed is intended- to empower the In
terfraternity Court with full jurisdiction ov
er cases that involve the fraternity and vi
olations of the Visiting Agreement. In ef
fect, the bill will make the constitution ad
here strictly to the present practices, of the
trial system.
The Coed Senate was given a kind you've-got-too-much-power
signal by Legislators
when they passed a proposal which calls for
approval of all coed legislation which is not
dealing with social rules. The one stipulation
here is a phrase "when it is deemed neces
sary." As has been pointed out, this new
amendment, if passed, may never be used.
Before the Legislature goes "hog-wild" ov
er Constitutional revisions and goes through
the constitution word for word, hunting for
various ailments in sentence structure and
connotation, we would ask it to slow
down and remember that a voter does not
have a complete explanation of the revision
on the ballot, and therefore, it is going to
have to serve as informer.
Take last year, the only example we have
of what happens to the amendments. There
were seven amendments to be voted on.
Three of these amendments were considered
major items by the Legislature and those
persons who were familiar with student gov
ernment. The other items to - be amended
were only procedual. Two of these major
iterhs were defeated at the polls.
Informed observers suggested at the time
that the reason that the measures were de
feated was solely because the students did
not know . what they were voting for, and
therefore, cast their vote against them.
If the Legislature is really sincere in its
desires for change then it should begin
educating the campus on a large-scale bas
is. -
BILL MAULDIN'S CARTOON
Mills-Stones
Look Behind You
Your Automobile
May Be Following
Yesterday morning we happen
ed to overhear a conversation be
tween a couple of delegates at
tending the IRC convention.
A tall, stately young man turn
' ed to his female companion and
"said, "Is that the Daily Worker
you have there." She replied,
"Yet, it's the Daily Tar Heel if
that is what you mean."
My ears did not burn, but it
. did take a lot of restraint to keep
myself from interrupting the
chatter and telling them that they
were accusing the Daily Tar Heel
of something which they them
selves are guilty.
From more of the conversa
tion we learned that the couple
were chattering about a certain
columnist who writes weekly for
this publication. They talked a
bout his pink tinge and his along -the-party-line
approach. I will
not" attempt, neither to deny nor
affirm, their views.
.This couple advocated that
such a person should not be al
lowed . to have the space in a
student publication. They would
have anyone thrown off the staff
who did not confirm strictly with
everything the United States
government does.
This follows the Communist
tactics. Take a current example
-the practices that the Coramu-
nist used in taking over the
Czechoslovakian government.
They got a foothold within the
government itself and then purged
the government of any officials
who did not tag along with their
beliefs and pledge their support
to the Communists.
Think what would have hap
pened if the Democrats had been
pushed out of Congress when the
Republicans took over. North
Carolina would not have any
representation in that body.
Enthused over the prospects of
seeing a "little car" in the pit
over at the south end of Alumni
building Wednesday evening, I
rushed over at the request of
Ruth Evans and Bud Dutton to
see the sights. When I got there
a wrecker had already arrived
and with a noise that sounded
like a B-24. taking to the tir, the
car was pulled up the steps and
back on the road between New
East and Old East.
Approaching the scene we saw
the little Ford coupe and heard
the owner of the car, who a
young lady called Woodrow, ex
plaining how the car happened
to get down into the pit. "You
see," Woodrow related, "I was
just going to be gone a few min
utes, so I threw the car into gear
and then ran into Alumni. I look
ed around just in time to see the
car following me into the build
ing." What really gets me is the
signs that are now appearing on
shoe polish containers. On the
side is printed, "To open insert
coin and twist." What nik
" them think we have a coin; if I
did would I be shining my own
shoes?
Test Personality
Psychoanalysts Use Comics
Pittsburgh, (UP) Modern says. But knowledge of such pie-
comic strips, many of which long , ferences is a helpful guide,
ago forsook comedy for adven- Fnr ;riI3tan an arIll1f
ture, love, and satire, now give
psychoanalysts a new means of
testing personality.
Dr. Warren W. Sones, professor
of education at the University of
Pittsburgh, believes comic strip
preference offers more reliable
study material than the best of
tea leaves or the trustiest of
palms.
For instance, the reader who
fights for each installment of
high adventure, mass homicide,
glamor, and love comics is an
"ego enhancement" type a per
son who nurses ambitions for
heroism, swash-buckling adven
ture and glamor.
Readers who follow the "do
mestic" comic strips usually are
members of happy families.
The strips Dr. Sones refers to
as "hate art" include those in
which the unscrupulous villian is
foiled. Often the villian is a com
monly respected type of citizen
for whom a particular class or
type of individual reserves a
special dislike.
Dr. Sones says the frustration
of the villians serves to give the
"hate art" readers vicarious
pleasure.
In the "strictly for adults"
classification, Dr. Sones lists a
limited number of comics which
appeal either directly to adult
minds, or use a broad brush in
daubing the strip's contmuity
with social satire.
The final listing Dr. Sones
gives is the purely educational,
or religious comic strip.
Drawing the outlines of a comic
reader's personality from his pre
ferences is no cinch, Dr. Sones
regularly reads none but the ad
venture and danger strips is of
ten a man or woman who nurses
a feeling of persecution, or a
grudge against a superior, or per
haps simply dissatisfaction with
the existing social order.
Dr. Sones believes comics have
only begun to progress. He pre
dicts' more adequate use of comic
strips in education.
For example, he believes that
a text book story duplicating one
four-block sequence of "Prince
Valiant" would run at least 2,500
words long and have less effect
on the memory than the pictures
which can be read in a minute's
time.
'Zis is ze last
. time ze government gets any friendly criticism
from ME."
The Brassy Taste
Of Time and the Volga
By Bob Sain
Old 'Torn Wolfe is dead now
ana for his sake maybe it is a
good thing. And then again, may
be not.
Lately novelist Tom, Asheville
born and seeker after fame,
fortunate and love, is getting
called "progressive"; some arc
saying now that he went along
with Marx insofar as he realized
that his '"creative problems. . .
were historically conditioned."
While reading Wolfe I never
figured that ihis intensely in
dividualistic writer could have
any truck with proletariat. Re
member how he tagged aliens
or, at least, newcqmers to
ihis country with the title
"the federated half-breeds of
the world"? Remember his
vicious portraits of New York
jews notably one Mr. Jack?
Remember how he thought he
was eternally damned because
he was thrown into a jail cell
with a Negro? although he
admitted parenthetically that
it wasn't so much that he didn't
like the Negro, it was just that
it wasn't dignified.
I've always liked Wolfe end
maybe it's indicative oi-a ie-
Carolina Carousel
Editors Lead, Editorials Mold
National' Prohibition
May Hit Bubble Gum
Boston (UP A Boston man
ufacturer has announced a na
tionwide drive to thwart the "im
pending threat" of prohibition.
No, relax. Not Scotch or bour
bon bubble gum.
It seems it's that bad. The in
dustry faces a crisis. Groups of
parents and teachers have form
ed angry anti-bubble gum cliq
ues, he said. One Pittsburgh den
tist even went so far as to say the
ballooning confection caused buck
teeth.
"This is absurd," scoffed Thom
as G. Wilder, vice president of
Gum Products, Inc. "Everyone
knows that if you huffed and puf
fed hard enough to distend your
teeth you'd make very inferior
bubbles. That is common knowledge."
By R. Foo Giduz
A frank, firm, but friendly
memo to Mrs. Irvine Smith, Vic
tory Village vetwife who com
plained in Thursday's "Write
Away" of increasing DTH edi
torial page "partisanship":. . .
Thanks for your interest. There
are probably a great number of
readers who think as you do;
especially the many who do not
agree with any particular DTH
editorial column stands.
Now CC is usually the first
character to speak out against
this paper's editorial policies
when he doesn't agree. . .But
here's one undeniable fact; An
editor should lead, not follow!
. . .And consequently editorials
must mold, not record opinion!
If you want the latter, try
the Gallup poll. Sometimes
that's not any good indication,
either; viz, mag referendum!)
Excuse it again if we recall the
words of "partisan" Josephus
Daniels: "A newspaper is no good
unless it will. . .fight for some
thing it believes in." "The only
crime is to be dull." Lady, you
elected the DTH editor because
form, which he is fighting for m
the editorial columns. . .You
didn't elect an automatic vote re
cording machine to voice student
opinion, though "Write Away"
and edit page columnists can
serve for this. . .The unbiased
facts are on the news pages. . .
The editor hopes that by present
ing an analysis of these he can
assist in forming your opinion.
The DTH should present issues
not opinions or decisions'
You should pardon the express
ion, Mrs. Smith, but, "Nuts!
What is the purpose of a newspaper?"
The lads working on the pro
posed Literary Quarterly (and
Bully for them!) are searching
a source of initial capital. . .
Muse: What about the thou
sands of dollars of surplus
funds the Publications board
now has invested in STOCKS?
. . .Can the PB help this worthy
cause?. . .
Louis Graves, editor of the CH
Weekly, has been one of our
favorites for many's the year
now. . .So yesterday his paper
"celebrated its silver annivers
ary. .Several birthdays ago
genial Mr. Graves expressed the
honest observation "This paper
is 18 years old today and I am
very tired of it.". . .So comes now
the 25th anniversary, and the
veteran journalist quoted his
sentiments anticlimactically con
cisely again: . . .Sometimes the
pressure of getting to press on
time and the long tedious hours
.make us wonder if it's worth
while to go through with the
same irksome routine again next
week!"
This 'n That
Wilbur and the Crazy Phone
By Bill Buchan
Telephones are crazy animals. Friend Wilbur Amberson
was sitting quietly in the back booth qf the Campus Cafe a
counle nishts ago when the buzzer on the phone started buz
zing. Susie McGillicudy, cocoa-drinking coed and philospher ' ary editor responded to re-
answered the thing and announc-
tnrdod mentality not to shrug
and say, "But I've outgrown him j about
to an extent." (Everyone ij sup
posed to outgrow Wolfe.)
I've liked him but I've ncvci
been able to line him up with
the hammer and sickle.
But that doesn't mean lhat it
can't be done.
One John Howard Lawson.
writing in the sometimes-lamented
Marxist publication.
Mainstream. admitted that
Wolfe vasn'i a Marxist while
insisting that he finally "came
to realize that the creative
problems with- which he grap
pled, the frustrations that in
hibited his development as an
artist, were historically condi
tioned, and that he must un
derstand American culture as
a process of growth and con
flict in order to solve the con
flicts in his own creative life."
Lawson quoted the final words
words of Wolfe's "Credo" in
"You Can't Go Home Again":
"I believe that we are lost here
in America and that we shall b;
found. And this belief, which
mounts now to the catharsis of
knowledge and conviction, is for
me and I think for ail of us -not
only our own hope, but
America's everlasting, living
dream. I think the life which we
have fashioned in America, and
which has fashioned us the
forms we made, the cells that
grew, the honeycomb that was
created was self-destructive in
its nature, and must be destroy
ed. I think these forms are dying
and must die. . .
"I think the enemy is here be
fore us, too. . .1 think the enemy
is here before us with a thousand
faces, but I think we know that
all his faces wear one mask. I
think the enemy' is single self
ishness and compulsive greed. . ."
These quotes and Mr. Lawsoh's
remarks appeared over a year
ago in the first issue of Main
stream. Since that time I have
seen several similar statements
concerning Wolfe. .
The latest of these appears
in a Berlin daily, Vorwarts,
(quoted in New Republic).
Howard Fast's "Freedom Road"
was running serially in this
Russian-licensed journal and
arous'ng considerable favorable
comment. The Vorwarts liter-
quests for further information
progressive American
literature" by listing Theadorc
Dreiser (who joined the Com
munist party shortly before
his death), Upton Sinclair. Ers
kine Caldwell. John Steinbeck.
Ernest Hemingway, William
Faulkner, John Dos Passos
(who recently renounced Marx
ism in Life magazine) and
Thomas Volfe.
Wolfe is already quite p'.pu,,:
in German translations hut fh;
recent Red stamp should :pic;(.
his fame considerably. At J l( i
to the East.
WHAT'S U P
in
Graham Memorial
Bill Corley's WedneMhiy ;i
ternoon dancing classes h;.v
been more than successful l!:
quarter, and well over hall .
hundred have participated. .
Present plans call lor an enlat 'I
dancing program next term. .
With the photog chief in the hi
firmary, the darkroom cla..s I n
this morning has been poi;ipnti' !
until next week.
The all-building ''Carnival '
originally set for next ItuIj
nifht. has likewise been post
poned until the first week of
spring quarter. . .GM welcome.;
the 150-odd IRC convention dele
gates who have headquarters on
the ground floor of the union ihis
weekend. . .(Remember tonight:
Rendezvous and Bingo.)
Coed Advisor Posts
May Be Applied For
' Miss Helen Bouldin, chairman
of women's orientation, has an
nounced that in addition to the
recommendations received for
student advisers, any girl pa i tic
ularly interested in being a stu
dent adviser next fall may sub
mit her name to her house pres
ident for consideration. Selec
tion will be based on the fitness
of each girl to act as a student
counselor for new girls.
Each adviser will be expected
to attend a short training course
during the middle of the spring
quarter, and she will be asked to
return a few days early for the
orientation program. They will
be asked to serve as advisers
throughout the year.
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ed that a "lady" wanted to speak
to Wilbur.
Ino w even
i though Wilbur
realizes that he
is quite the la-
ii dy's man, it was
a mystery how
any young wo
man would
know that he
would be in the
Campus es
pecially when he usually camp
ed out in the University.. To set
tle the mystery, Wilbur took the
receiver and informed the lady
that he wasn't interested in mar
riage with unseen persons.
The unseen person, however,
was a long distance operator from
Shelby and she was not impres
sed with the importance of the
man to whom she was speaking.
With a curt "Are you Wilbur
Amberson", she ordered him to
Write Away
Tired of Battle or UMT Wits
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300 words. All contributions must
contain signature, telephone num
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(Names will be withheld upon re
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scene or libelous statements or
letters which do not comply with
these stipulations will not be pub
lished. Editor,
Mr. Nichols' letter ''UMT
Lacks Reasoning" was given -an
unfortunate title because the
contents of his paper was an ex
amination of the conclusions of
his opponents arguments instead
of an analysis of his argument.
Logic is concerned only with the
process of going from one prG
holrl thP wire for Shelbv. Now mise to another. Mr. Nichols did
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MANAGING EDITOR: Ed Joyner. Jr.
SPORTS EDITORS: Bob Goldwaier, Bill Carmichael
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Shelby is a pretty big little town
and it was hard to figure how
Shelby would get through the
telephone line, but Wilbur held
on anvwav and eventually a
voice, that of his cousin Willie,
came through.
It seemed that Willie was in
terested in spending a fast week
end (false impression, naturally)
in Chapel Sill and was informing
Wilbur that he was leaving pron
to. That news wasn't so bad, but
what worried Wilbur was how in
hang they knew to locate him in
the Campus- Cafe. In the student
directory, he is listed as living
on McDawdle Street, and his
cousin Willie knew that he could
be located in the office of the So
ciety for the Advancement of the
Left Hand, but no one knew that
he would be in the Campus at
exactly nine-o-nine' on Thursday
night. The logical answer is that
some brilliant character in the
SFALH office told the operator to
try all the beer joints, but as yet
Wilbur hasn't found anyone who
gave, such a message.
After Wilbur hung up the
phone, he surrounded himself
with beers and numerous poli
ticians, and proceeded to try to
solve the problem with logic.
(See BUCHAN, page 4)
not attack on this basis.
Therefore he did not attack
on the basis of logic. (This' is
using the word "logic" in its
technical sense. If he wants to
use it to mean vaguely "any
thing that doesn't sound rea
sonable to me" then he is per
mitted to say that the prize
winning essay is logically un
sound.) Even though UMT and its im
plications are of the utmost im
portance, I am getting tired of
the continual battle of wits in
which each side propounds its
viewpoint with a patriotic fever
that leaves the impression that
their side is a Holy Right and
that this is the last train for
peace.
Such a faith is good for the
individual who possesses it be
cause it gears him for action
but an attempt to foster that
faith on others who are of a
different opinion without an
attempt to examine the basic
assumptions of your opponent
is bound to lead to failure on
your part and a feeling of frus
tration on the part of the great
body of passive onlookers.
Let us consider the basic at
titudes which we bring to these
problems, agree on some com-
jrnon fundamentals and then, if it
i possible, proceed to some agree
!ment. I would like to look at the
roots of this problem instead of
the? multiplicity of its branches.
Roy L. Wray
Right" Face
Editor,
Recently Mr. Charles Kauff
man, an experienced journalist
approached you on the subject
of writing a column of conser
vative news and opinion. Mr.
Kauffman was turned down and
immediately the Tar Heel an
nounced a hew policy of cutting
out writing by and for Student
Organizations.
We Conservatives accepted
that as well and good and con
cluded that the Tar Heel was
doing a good thing in culling
out highly partisan and pre
judiced material. But today ap
peared a column by Bill
Robertson (sometimes known
as the "pink shrieker"). Afler
a scrupulous search of the Tar
Heel masthead, I fail to nolo
any connection of Mr. Robert
son with the Daily Tar Heel.
In addition, his material is de
finitely party line and ho bally
hoos Henry Wallace in every
column. I maintain he represent:;
the Chapel Hill Communists and
the Henry Wallace for President
Club. If that is true, the Tar Heel
has already broken their promi:;:
(See WRITE AWAY, page A)
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