PAGE TWO
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1945
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Cutting The Cost
From the University of Virginia's Cavalier Daily comes
an idea worth considering. It is a project for beating the
high cost of textbooks. -centage
of non-GI students rising," says the Cavalier, "more
"With the price of textbooks skyrocketing and the per
and more of us are shelling out more and more for the
equipment which is essential to the process of education.
Today, the damage for just the basic books required under
the average curriculum is seldom less than twenty-five
or thirty dollars."
The situation is the same here at Carolina as most of
us know too well after having recently shelled Out for
this quarter's books. And what happens to these books
at the end of the course? The Cavalier editorial continues:
"At the end of the semester, students have two alter
natives: either to sell back these white elephants to the
local bookstores (at a rate which hovers around one dollar
for every three paid for them), or to let them lie on their
shelves, or in boxes in the attic. Most choose the latter,
for want of a sufficient monetary incentive for hauling
them to a bookstore."
What can be done about the situation?
"With prices mounting in the stores and perfectly
usable textooks gathering dust in almost every attic," the
editorial writer declares, "an opportunity exists for some
non-profit organization to establish a service to benefit us
all.
"We suggest that a non-profit Textbook Lending
Center be established, using as a working base the hund
reds of books that students have lying around from last
year. Many of these are on the required list again this
year. These books would be given to the center, and later:
rented out for the whole semester free, or at a standard
nominal fee. In this way one student, by handing in his
basic German text now would find the biology book he
is looking for waiting for him when he needs it next fall,
and vice .versa- He might have some pangs about giving
up for nothing a German book for which he could get
fifty cents at the book-ex, but he would feel better when
' he considered the five dollars he would have had to pay
for the biology unless someone had had the foresight to
hand one in to the Lending Center. It's just a matter
of arithmetic and self interest."
One of our many "service" organizations could do a
lot with that idea.
The Comma Question
Most freshmen regard punctuation about like Admiral
Farragut did torpedoes. The guidance of a whole gamut
of hyper-punctuation-sensitive English instructors only
serves to make th em painfully aware of the existence of
a set of rules for regulating grammar and little else. Instead
of sailing like a pilot well within the bounds of a marked
channel, they dash about furtively like rats in a maze.
A certain colored gentleman summed up the freshmen's
feelings when he said, "I knows I looks better with shoes
on, but I'm more comfortable with them off and besides,
they just slow me down when I'm in a hurry."
Those who speak reverantly of the agony of childbirth
have never watched one of our collegiate tyros in the
throes of composition. Instead of being ensconced in a
hospital bed, with a sympathetic attendant nearby, he
is cramped against a rough desk, and jeered at by a
callous room-mate, or worse, by ninteen fellow Quonset
hutters. Instead of proudly presenting a gleeful co-parent
with a heavenly bundle, he must shamefacedly lay his
ugly offspring before a critical English prof.
The trouble with the art of punctuation as most Fresh
men see it, lies not in knowing the marks themselves but
in knowing where to place them, and that involves making
decisions. Until they learn to make the right decisions,
the Freshmen are faced with a seemingly insoluble dilem
ma, for they aren't allowed to write without punctuation
and most of them can't write with it.
To those who have almost given up in stygian dispair
there is a suggestion of hope. It has been revealed that
there is a tendency towards the use of less punctuation.
You may now properly omit the last comma in a series.
Who knows? Perhaps the trend will grow. Today it is
a comma, tomorrow it may be the whole works. B.F.
The official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it is issued daily during the regular sessions of
the University by the Colonial Press, Inc., except Mondays, examination and
vacation periods, and during the official summer terms when published semi
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Editor : ED JOYNER, JR.
Business Manager T. E. HOLDEN
Managing Editor Chuck Hauser
Sports Editor Billy Carmichael III
Campus Ed Sally Woodhull
Town Ed Herb Nachman
Feature Ed Jim Dickinson
Asst. Spt. Ed Dick Jenrette
News Staff: LincolnKan, Margaret Gaston, Bill Buchan, Stewart McKeel,
Gordon Huffines, Dan Wallace, Leonard Dudley, Jerry Weiss, Jack
Blown, Wink Locklair, Roy Parker, Emily Baker, Charles Pritchard,
Emily Sewell, Mark Sumner, Charles Carter, Jimmy Leesen, Mary
Frances Johnston, Jimmie Foust. Norma Neville, John Van Hecke,
George Carter, Art Xanthos, Don Maynard.
Editorial Staff: Rita Adams, Bev Lawler, Bob Fowler,
Sport Staff: Taylor Vadon, Larry Fox. Morton Glasser, WufT Newell, Chan
Barksdale, Zane Robbins, Frank Allston.
Business StajJ: Jim Martin, J. C. Rush, Preston Wescott. Bill Peebles, Doug
Thompson, Allen Tate, Neal Cadieu, Jackie White, J, C. Brown, Ed
Wharton.
Circulation Staff: Don Snow, Randy Hudson. Shasta Bryant, Lowell Brittain,
M. J. White, Frank Olds, Don Calloway.
Opinions expressed by columnists are their own. All editorials not initiated
are written by the editor.
Ado. Mgr C. B. Mendenhall
Circ. Mgr Owen Lewis
Subscrip. Mgr Jim King
Asst. Bus. Mgr Betty Huston
Odds
And
Ends
By Riia Adams
ON CAMPUS: Watch your
hats while the sorority girls
breathe a sigh of relief 'cause
that's one puff that could
blow the whole town out of
Orange County. Rushing last
week was almost too much for
all of them rushees and
rushers alike. It got to the
point that Ferne Hughes was
saying good-bye we loved
having you and then she
added before she could' stop
her faux pas, . "I'm so glad I
didn't get to talk to you!"
And it hit the rushees just as
hard. Fr'instance, there was
the one who said to Fran
Angas, "Everytime I see you,
I get you mixed up with that
girl who is speaker of the
Coed Senate." Case of double
identity, shall we say.
THERE HAS been some
thing missing around this
place all fall all three weeks
of it, that is; and we just now
figured out what it is. No evi
dence of a Chesterfield repre
sentative. Since R. Fco Gidus
treked off to Columbia Uni
ersity, things just' haven't
been the same.
Still around but not conspi
cuously so, is the C.C.U.N. Has
the national political picture
gobbled up everybody's time,
thought, and publicity, or
just what has happened to
the organization that was set
ting its woods on fire with
' progress last year? Mention
was made at orientation meet
ings of a mimeographed pa
per, the circulation of which
reached 1000 last yeaiNmd was
expected to hit 5000 this year;
we have heard nothing more
about the paper.
JUDGING FROM the com
ments of this year's med stu
dents, the only thing dead in
their school is the cadavers.
Gordon Heath, whom you pro
bably know as Sody Pep don't
ask us where that name came
from, 'cause we've tried in
vain for a year to find out
Anyhoo, Sody has been plag
uing his date with tales of
his 23 year-old, blonde corpse.
Then, there's Charlie Adams
who has evidentaHy fallen in
love with his cadaver, he
hasn't been seen or heard of
since he got back to school this
fall.
WE'RE STILL wondering if
we'll see Paul Ritch, former
high school star in Charlotte's
Little Theater, stealing the
lime-light at . Carolina. He's
mighty good material, with all
sorts of training in dramatics.
Fact is, there seems to be talent
going to waste all over this
place. New students keep
wandering through the DTH
office looking fcr jobs of every
description. And for the bene
fit of any of them who might
bump into a seemingly common
difficulty, the Carolina Quar
terly office is on the mezanine
to your right as you come in
the front door of the building.
Incidentally, you might even
make use of the directory of
rooms staring you in the face
as you enter.
SOUND AND FURY mem
bers are beaming over the
150 try-outs they recently
recruited and also over the
letters from faculty and organ
izations asking for new office
headquarters for the group.
Their bloodhounds tracked
down Hammerstein's son and
are now on the chase for Dick
Jacobson. who toured with
"Oklahoma," and Larry Peerce
son of the celebrated Jan.
PLEZ TRANSOU is now
going through his yearly rou
tine of reacquainting himself
with his former buddies from
Winston-Salem. Seems they
keep looking for "P.A." and
all they round up are reports
of "Plez."
IN TOWN: If we're short
along this line, it is NOT our
fault. Too many families spent
the week-end galavanting all
over Georgia and Durham and
celebrating the victories. We'll
just have to wait for another
gab session at the Coffee
Shoppe and hear Lib Napier's
report.
Our apologies to whoever
ramrods the work around the
service plants. Something IS
being done there. Smudged
up men were dragging out
piles of charred odds and ends
all last week.
OF REGRET To THE f DEAR ALBEhJ !... plfe
- VvX IDO BELIEVE
, TELLING YOU lgj
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by arrangement with The Washington Star
These Days
Why Wallace Is Slipping
By George E. Sokolsky
Last Spring, the betting was
that Henry Wallace would get
at least 5,000,000 votes. No
one experienced with Amer
ican politics would bet that
way today. It is now calculated
that Henry might get at most
3,000,000. Many competent men
would estimate that that is
high because Wallace is de
finitely slipping as the camp
aign proceeds.
The shift in judgment is
due to the growing certainty
that Henry Wallace's Progres
sive party is a Communist
front; that those who control
the Communist apparatus in
the United States" control the
Progressive party. Wallace's
speeches read as though they
were written in the Kremlin.
If it is false that Wallace has
become a slave of the Com
munists; if it is false that he
closely follows the Kremlin
line, it is his own fault that
his-own countrymen have come
to think that way about him,
That is the picture he now
paints himself, just as at an
other period he liked to be
thought a mystic and queer.
The Communists do not be
lieve in the two-party system.
To them it seems a ridiculous
institution, outworn and out
This Changing World
1 Have
By Bill Robertson
(The circumstances of the
world are continually changing
and the opinions of men change
also. Thomas Paine)
At the present time there
is a "short subject" film play
ing the theatres throughout
the country. The title of this
film is "This Is America." It
deals with a poor, "misguided"
college student whose father,
(a newspaper editor), got pret
ty upset about the "fiery" edit
orials his son was writing for
the college newspaper. These
editorals were all about the
capitalist system, in the process
of decay. The father's letter
to his son constitutes the
movie.
' By the strangest coincidence
it happens that the writer of
this column is a college stu
dent whose father (a newspa
per editor) has been pretty
much upset by his political
views. In the light of this co
incidence we feel called upon
to write a few words of rebut
tal, hoping that we will not do
injustice to that unknown col
lege student. Here goes:
America is not a static thing.
America is a great nation in
A Matter Of Opinion
moded. They believe in a one
parly system. Their idea is
that whoever takes the power
holds it as long as he can for
whatever purposes he chooses.
They do not speak of being
elected to office; the phrase
they employ is "seizing power."
Thus the Communist party
platform says:
"M illions of American
working people have come to
realize the futility of any fur
ther support for the bankrupt
two-party system of big busi
ness. Both major parties are
committed to the bipartisan
war program, reflected in both
the Truman Doctrine and its
new look version, the Marshall
plan. Both major parties are
united in this program of fat
tening the billionaires and
bleeding the taxpayers."
Then this same platform
says:
"Millions of Americans, dis
illusioned with the two-party
system, have given birth to
a new people's parly.
"The new Progressive party
is an inescapable historic nec
essity for millions who want a
real choice between peace and
war, democracy or facism,
security or poverty. .
"The Communists, who sup
port every popular progressive
movement, naturally welcome
(Copyright, 1948, Kin
Chosen My Side'
process of change. To be more
exact, America is, in the
words of our greatest poet,
Walt Whitman, "a teeming
nation of nations.. ..magnificen
tly moving in vast masses."
Further, this movement has
never been like the simple
flowing of a river. Rather, it
has been a spasmodic move
ment, a movement in which
large masses of people, with
sudden bursts of energy, have
wrested the future from the
past.
Such was the situation when
our nation won its freedom
during the American Revolu
tion. Such was the nature of
. j the bitter struggle under the
leadership of Jefferson and
Jackson to secure to the people
their democratic rights. Such
was the nature of the Abolition
Movement and the great
Civil War which' destroyed
forever the barbarous institu
tion of slavery.
No, the movement toward
greater and greater democracy
in our country has not been
the simple flowing of a river.
After the Civil War there were
the bitter strike struggles of
those who were building Am
this new people's party. We
s u p p oi led the progressive
features of Roosevelt's New
Deal. We helped organize the
C.I.O. in the 1930's, we have
supported every democratic
movement since the Commun
ists of Lincoln's generation
fought in the Union cause dur
ing the Civil War."
"We Communists are dedi
cated to the proposition that
the great American dream of
life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness will be realized
only under socialism, a system
of society in which the major
means of production will be
collectively owned and opera
ted under a government based
on the working class...."
Henry Wallace has never
repudiated the support of those
who hold such views. There
fore, he has been repudiated
by most of American -labor
and even by the Negroes whom
he sought to mobilize in his
interest. He has gambled the
respect and good-will of Amer
icans for the support of a for
eign power and its traitorous
agents in his own country.
And it was a bad gamble, even
politically, because it will not
bring him anything, not even
votes. If Henry Wallace's vote
is small, he will cease to be
a factor in American politics.
Ftatures Syndicate, Inc.)
erica the industrial working
people. There was the savage
persecution and murder of
their leaders. There was the
struggle of those who fed and
nourished America the farm
ing people against the econ
omic oppression of the banks
and the railroads.
And what is the situation
today? These struggles have
become concentrated and in
tensified. They have been mer
ged in a bitter war of the
people against the trusts. The
lines have been sharply drawn.
The savagery of our enemies
the enemies of the people
knows no bounds.
Such in brief is the nature
of American democracy a dy
namic process, fought for and
cherished by the people. The
sophists are fond of arguing
that there are two sides to
every question. That is certain
ly true in this case. There is
the side of savagery, decay,
and darkness; and there is
the side of civilization, rebirth,
and the light of a world
outlook which affirms the es
sential worth and dignity" of
man. I have chosen my side and
I have joined in the struggle.
Write Away
Scuttlebutt Wanted
Editor:
For ten quarters I have lived in Ruffin Dorm, and have found
it one of the belter dorms because of its convenience. Now, some
of that convenience has gone. What happened to the Scuttlebutt?
When I left school last spring, it was still here, and appeared to
be getting just about all the business it could handle. But when
I came "back this fall, it was gone.
Was it possibly losing money? I doubt that. Then, just what
was the reason for closing it down? I've asked around among
the boys and girls that were here this summer, and all of them
knew it was closing, but none seem to know why. Is it a secret?
Was it condemned because of polio? Could it be the Chapel Hill
Merchants Association put pressure on the University officials
to close it down?
I'm not above walking uptown at night (or during the day,
for that matter), but why? All I ask is one good reason that it
should not remain open.
Yours for more and better
Cofield Is
Editor:
Apparently a number of students returned to the University
in September to be surprised and a bit annoyed upon finding
that the armory store or Scuttlebutt, whichever you prefer to
call it, had been closed. Located adjacent to Emerson field, con
veniently close to the men's dorm area, that little white building
was recognized and patronized by dorm men as a real benefit.
Perhaps the armory store was closed because of the opening of
the Monogram club's circus room to the student body. The Mon
ogram club's opening is certainly an excellent idea, but the circus
room should supplement, not replace, the armory store. Armory
store was not only popular because of its soda fountain, but
also because it offered a great number of items, such as magazines,
crackers, fruit juice, soap, tooth paste, that dorm students find
useful.
Already a petition is in circulation, requesting the re-opening
of the aromry store. Let's hope that the petition will be heeded,
for it's apparent that the armory store is desired and needed.
Erie Cofield
Special Baby Sale
Editor:
Att: Mr. Mendenhall
In reference to your ad in last Thursday's issue of the Daily
Tar Heel, I would like to make a few inquiries. You advertise on
page 5 in columns 5 and 6 a group of miscellaneous items fr-m
the Village Pharmacy, Inc.
I am interested to know if you have the Complete Baby and
Children in assorted sizes and colors. Do you have the large econ
omy size? If so, that will satisfy present needs.
As stated in the ad, I presume this comes under the delivery
service. I am expecting, your immediate attention to this order.
Anne Schuss
(Editor's note: This letter has been referred for the immed
iate attention of our business department and Die Village
Pluirmacy.)
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