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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1949 ?AGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEE The official newipaper of the Publication Board Of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where It is issued dally 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 ternl-weekly. Entered as second-class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price: $8.00 per year, $3.00 per quarter. v Editor Business Manager Managing Editor Sports Editor Associate Ed News Ed. Al Lowenstein Sally Woodhull Herb Nachman .;. Dick Jenrette City Ed.. Asst. Svt. Ed... Editorial staff: Bev Lawler, Nat Williams, Bob Fowler. An Aid to Lectures (From the Purdue Exponent) The educational system is one of those things which constantly undergoes a series of alternate praise and con demnation, some of which is factual in nature and some of which is beyond the realm of practicability. The net result is constant change which is a good thing. Our parents become grouped as the people who contend, "They didn't do it that way when I was in school." Bene ficial change constitutes progress in a large measure and in what field other than education is progress more im portant, since it affects all people, h " A few years ago, professors vwere lambasted for using the same identical lecture notes from semester to semester, and in some quarters were even accused of teaching the . same things from generation to generation. That situation seems to have improved to an appreciable degree at least the textbooks are changed frequently as we all are aware. But how about those lecture notes, and what's more important, the actual process of taking notes? One of the most difficult situations in note taking is the problem of keeping up with the lecturer so that some semblance of meaning accompanies the written word. Some professors have suggested that their students take a mini mum of notes and pay more attention to the discussion. Others let the student follow his own inclinations and em ploy any form of shorthand -which he has developed in the sometimes futile attempt to put on paper each and every small detail. Add to this the fact that at least one professor on the campus has said that4here is no need to take notes in his classes, pointing out that he can lecture for a full : month from one page of notations. His students are the first to admit that his lectures support his view. ". 7."" ""f, ':)"" In order that this heterogenous mixture' of - (teaching methods be 'standardized. to some extent, why not do as" other universities, such as the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and Indiana University have done? In courses of the lecture type, the professor distributes a mimeographed copy . of his lecture at each -class period. The students then follow the thoughts as they are discussed, underlining those ideas which are stressed; ' and there is no note taking, as such, which does much to distract attention from the lecture. An assessment of the-i students at the beginning of the semester would pay1, for' the mimeographing and paper at a cost of about seventy five cents per student. For veterans this charge, would come under the G. I. Bill, but aside from that the value received should keep no student from resenting the small invest ment. r.v.p. Why Do College Men Fail? (From the Georgia Tech Technique) Why does the college trained man frequently fail at his first job? The answer he is still a child in one way or another, be cause he lacks one or more of seven basic traits. That is the answer given by Dr.; Robert N. McMurry ' based on a survey by his management firm which studied 1,17 trainees directly hired from college by 247 companies. He listed the seven traits as: " V" BTFIO"- ".' The ability to stay long enough with a company to repay the investment in training. ' ' The ability to accept responsibility. Perseverance, or the ability "to follow a path to the end," even if the path is unfamiliar. Self-reliance. The quality of being agreeable to different groups and different persons. Identification of his personal goals with those of the firm. And the ability to exercise authority without belliger- -"ence. "Absence of these traits, or any one of them, indicates failure of an indvidual to grow emotionally," said Dr. McMurry. He said his study was based on experience with the 1,167 trainees recruited directly from college who were trained at the expense of $2,750 each for the first year, exclusive of such items as supervision and breakage. Of the whole group, only.a small percentage were judged desirable at the end of the first year. The others had left or had proved unsatisfactory and were discharged. The way to avoid this loss, Dr. McMurry said, is "to keep clearly in mind the qualifications for the job, and to use a patterned interview which permits the interviewer to explore all facets of the applicant's background. "This latter will give the interviewer a factual basis for judging whether the trainee does have the qualities the company seeks and this judgment must be made upon a careful evaluation of what the candidate has done rather than on what he says he will do." ' Loyd Brady, AP gTatXeel ..ED JOYNER, JR. T. E. HOLDEN Chuck Hauser ..Billy Carmichael III Adv. Mgr C. B. Mendenhall Circ. Mgr. .Owen Lewis Su'oscrip. Mgr. Jim King Asst. Bus. Mgr.. Betty Huston Passing Sentence Apologies To Clean Hogs By Jonathan Marshall ( - In every crowd there are a few people who act as if they were brought up in a pig sty this columnist asks all clean ly hogs to forgive the compari-. son. There are always people who leave lighted cigarettes on tables, who don't bother to flush toilets, and who never return books that they borrow. A lot of these people must have agreed to concentrate op erations in the town of Chapel Hill, or at least on our cam pus. Of course many parent never bother to teach their children to consider other people, but one would think that instinctively the old "do unto others" proverb might eventually make a dent on their thick skulls. Just for laughs this column ist counted the trash on the path between Graham Memori al and the new stop light op posite the post office the other evening. The count did not in ' elude cigarette butts which were too numerous to count and which wash away with the first rain. There were 118 pieces of trash on the path. The list included such items as paper, orange peels, apple cores, cups, one whiskey bot tle, paper bags, half a hot dog and roll, a tobacco tin, several empty cigarette packs, and a " torn shirt. Although there are five or six garbage cans in the Y court and behind South building, the ground is always littered. May be it takes too much muscle to put cups and other trash in waiting garbage cans. . This isn't the only manner in which lack of consideration for other people is demonstrat ed around here. During the ..last year two punch bowls and a ' silver service set have dis appeared from Graham Me morial. Result, organizations must furnish their own equip ment now. This column has often men tioned the fact that school spirit means more than cheer ing at athletic events. Keep : ing our campus neat and re specting university property ' would be one good way of showing school spirit. It looks as if the increase in - taxi rates mentioned recently in this column wll go through without any more investiga tion. Mr. Lanier and Dr. Hobbs did their best to further good government, but again the pub lic fell down on its responsi bility. Perhaps those who said that a public hearing would be a waste of time were right! Washington Scene. Sidelights On By George Dixon Washington "Freshman" Representative Stephen M. Young, of Ohio, was stand ing impatiently in line at the house disbursing office the other , day. He was trying to get a pay check. Mr. Young explained, vehe mently, that he just had to get dough because he had to go home to Cleveland and pick up some decent clothes. "I just have been appointed to the Ways and Means com mittee," he said. "It is a very important committee and I've got to look dignified." The reason I put quotes around "freshman" in refer ring to Mr. Young is that he was here before. But he has been out since 1942 when he was defeated by George H. Bender, the hymn-singing so lon. Young and Bender have car ried on quite an election feud. Young defeated Bender three times, and Bender defeated him twice. In 1940 they both won. This was because a population in crease gave Ohio two repre-sentatives-at-large. But re-districting ensued and now there is only one again and Young is it. The Navy is getting out a text book for its" reserve officers. Fee. ributcd by King Features Syndiccte neement with The Wfahiigtor. Str IRC Forum The Dutch Are Burned Up By Charlie Kauffman The Dutch are pretty burned up over the rather overbearing attitude of the U.S. in the cur rently projected Indonesian settlement. They have been given about as much credit for honesty as a gang of Chi cago crooks. Their incensed stand shows that they fully understand the good-will we have so recently crammed down their throats. Certainly we can agree, and we have agreed, that a federa ted republic would be set up in Indonesia by July, 1950. The difficulties involved have been only in matters of procedure and implementation of agree ment. Yet we have, with ap parent ease, managed to insult the Dutch and their good faith;' we have flayed them at every, turn. Of course, we have Hol land, economically speaking, in a very bad position the cessation of ERP funds into Holland would wreck the country within a very short time. Yet the Dutch had pro mised to do their utmost to establish an interim govern ment by next month, hold elections by the fall, and achieve the transfer of sover eignty to a federated republic during the course of the year Some Congressional Figures It contains many interesting items not matters of general knowledge. For instance: Did you know it's a bread-and-water offense for a naval officer to wear non-regulation socks with a regulation uni form? Outside of that, how've ya been? A former United States senator makes good or how to bristle with success: The distinguished John A. Danaher, who represented the great state of Connecticut in all his Republican' dignity un til Democratish Brien McMa hon defeated him in 1944, has just registered as a lobbyist with the secretary of the Senate. He stated ne has been re tained as lobbyist by the Ful ler Brush company! There seems, however, to be a little uncertainly in ex senator Danaher' mind phout his n?v ovnen" Tn filling out th" lobhvists' "confession" form. h answered questions as follows: "Exp?ii"j? 'Indefinite.' Salary? 'Indefinite.' Duration of employment? 'Indefinite.' " Never knew the Fuller Brush people were so inde if Old Water Trough Again 1950. This is precisely what the United States resolution, adopted by the Security Coun cil last Friday, calls for. It can hardly be argued that the U.N. has no jurisdiction in Indonesia or that observers for the Security Council do not have the right as such to over see the progress in the area toward the setting up of the Republic. The approach taken by the U.S. in its resolution does, however, seem toUje de cidedly shortsighted in view of the situation in Burma, where a "republic" was hur riedly set up, and as a result, the, country is now near a state of utter chaos. Britain simply got. out rather than face the music. It can be argued that the Dutch have previously pursued a rather enlightened colonial policy in their Indonesian Empire. All the Dutch have asked for is a little time to carry out the similar measures they had planned long previously to those put forth last Friday at Lake Success. It cannot be denied that the U.N. has granted the Arabs and the Jews an enormous length of time before assuming the peri od for settlement had expired. The Soviet Union has to this Since Mrs. Margaret Chase Smith, graduated from repre sentative to senator she has . dolled herself up quite a lot. The pretty, little woman with the soft gray hair used to give the impression of being about to set forth on a cross-country hike. But now she dresses like a gal with a hot date for dancing. The flat-heeled shoes have given way to the trickest suede opera pumps you ever saw stilt-heeled numbers with a buckle three inches high clus tered with rhinestones. I saw her out dancing the other night. Never before have I seen such a dreamy look on the pan of a senator. The new head doorkeeper of the House of Representatives is named William M. Miller, but everyone calls him "Fish bait." Seems it's a holdover from his boyhood in Mississippi. A devoted chum expressed the opinion that Miller was no good for anything except fish bait and it stuck. Ex-representative Fred Hart ley, of Taft-Hartley renown, was introduced at the boxing matches here the other night. Few seemed to recognize the name. (Copyright, 1949, by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) day not complied with the Se curity Council resolution on Korea of a year ago. There are those self-termed "enlightened" ones among Us who demand to know what right the Dutch have in Indo nesia on the grounds that a great "people's movement" is being suppressed. The obvious question is what people and what percentage of the popu lation these participants com prise. The question of the poli tical ideologies involved is open to debate. The percent age of the Javanese popula tion participating in this great "people's movemennt" is deci dedly small. The overwhelming majority is simply tired of being terrorized. Even for those who -believe the withdrawal should be ahead of the U.N. and the Dutch schedule, this explanation should, but probably won't suffice. In the first place, the principle of colonial empire and economic exploitation thereof is as old as that of the international community it self. And in the second, in all fairness to the Dutch posi tion, it must be considered that before the war nearly half of Holland's annual in come came from her trade with the Indies, while 67 per cent of all Indonesian trade was with the mother country. The rich produce of the islands can no doubt be absorbed by trade with other countries, especially if we intend to build our stockpile of strategic ma terials beyond the 30 per cent of the goal already obtained. It is highly unlikely that the Dutch will find new, rich colo nies for exploitation, and they are well aware of it. In view of this, it is no wonder that the Dutch do not look forward with any particular anticipa tion to scuttling two-thirds of their vast merchant fleet in the months ahead, and retiring as a nation to the banks of Lake Ysel to fulfill a destiny at cod fishing. Dutch economy is, of course, going to be pretty thoroughly shaken. We- are 'proceeding with our Indonesian policy on the highly laudable but some what dubious assumption that more will be gained by the Indonesians than will be lost by the Dutch. When the paint starts to dry, we can look for ward to this: acute instability, economically and politically, in Java if not in the entire republic; Dutch dependence upon the U.S. for restabilizing its economy, already in a peri lous position. This article is not meant to take the form of a defense of the Dutch empire system. It is meant to point out that there is another side to this Indo nesian melee-something which has apparently not occured to but a very few American ob servers of the situation there. Write Away White Man's Burden? EdMr.: Truman in his inaugural speech says we will continue the Marshall Plan. He says this even though it is bankrupting Europe and undermining the status of American workers. James Zellerbach, ECA Chief in Italy, recently stated that it will be necessary to fire one out of every three Italians (One sixth are now unemployed.) Our program of .saving the world from Communism prevents two Italian shipbuilding ft" from Sing tankers and tugboats for the Soviet Union (sufficient work for one year), because Articles 2 of the European Recovery Tct forbids the export to Eastern European countries of products made from U. S. materials. In N Y. state, Remington-Rand is closing its plants to 12,000 employees and opening cheap-labor factories in Scotland En land . Germany, France and even in India. (Current headlines: "Idleness Spreading.") . Aside from the 16 Marshall Plan countries, we have also bom giving aid (mostly military) to China, Greece and Turkey. Afir the war most Americans were eager for their country to send food, farm equipment, machine tools, clothing and medicine 1o all needy peoples. And some even may have thought such a, i, supplemented by armaments, would stop the spread of socialise But we have failed in Greece and in China, and we are failing in Europe. We haven't stopped the spread of any ideology and v;o haven't helped any country toward economic recovery Mr Truman and his military advisers aren t deterred by tho:r lack of success. There's still the Far East and then the world'. And our motives can't be questioned we're just saving them from a way of life we know they wouldn't like anyway. Truman says "We must embark -on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress avail able for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas." Our government will 'guarantee -all private capital so invested. Our President does reassure; us: 'This is not "the old imperialism exploitation .for foreign pfofit.'1 ' If this isn't the white man's burden American style you name it. . Mrs. Preston Lewis Suggestion from Miller Editor: Gentlemen, I wish to make a modest proposal for the better ment of the University. It is extremely difficult for me to sit in my house of ease and let the University which has fostered my education go to financial ruin. We the men who have been brought ' from Nash Hall under the one happy roof of Miller feci that we have even more to offer. We suggest that the heat from the great number of men here will suffice. This may not seem like much to the untrained student but I am sure that our campus fathers will immediately see the value. Actually it will accomplish the same saving as the closing of Nash. This is however only a slight saving as compared to the other proposals which I wish to bring to your mind. Most of the men who live in Miller Hall go home on the week ends and actually have no need for water facilities. Let me say here however that I don't think it wise to cut the plumbing facilities out entirely as some of the men living here have the extremely bad habit of using these facilities once or twice a day, and this I feel sure would complicate matters, so until these habits can be broken may I suggest that they be allowed to use these facilities to some extent. As for lights we are all in accord that they could bo disconnected without any serious interrpution to our lives. The lights now serve only to Illuminate card games at which we lose our money. I wish to impress further that I do not seek recognition for these proposals but seek only the solution to a very difficult financial problem. Cleiis E. Peacock 12 V7 VA 15 is '8 9 2i 22 2A So 32 ZA 55 58 At A2 AS I AS, 45 5o Si 5S 54 HORIZONTAL 1. stud 5. dappled color 9. prefix with 12. astringent salt 13. Gaelic .14. reverential fear 'I 15. contemptible 16. traces , -18. capital of France 20. lock of hair 21. cubic metric units 23. wing 24. grampus 25. branch of hygiene Study allows 32. worthless scrap 33. Great Lake 34. fates 37. rank 38. those in ' office 39. morning services 41. catkin 44. cleft 45. feminine name 47. idle 50. incite 51. wrap in cerecloth 52 type of jacket 53. one of the Cyclases 54. bound 55. American Army surgeon Answer to M B N si N N w 7T 'mC by Kiny 14. 7 20 26 33 21 36 37 "A 39 AO 'A AA 47 AS 2-1 9. place of conrinemcr.t 10. is in debt 11. promontory 17. wrathful 19. primary color 21. vended 22. English 23. tried 26. silkworm 27. cxaspcrat. 28. shoot 29. stitches 31. bite 35. left ccmpltt'- 36. salt 40. lodge door keeper 41. verily 42. Biblical wise men 43. hence 44. series of plant formation changes 46. Portuguese coin 48. feminine name 49. consum mation VERTICAL 1. the Gate fPer.) 2. palm leaf 3. distrusts 4. bedaub 5. amendments 6. metallifer ous rocks 7. donkey 8. provoke yesterday's puzzle. M E N 19 1" 27 23 T29 'A YZa- V7 V s YA i L E aTF L E K 0 Ante r 0,ttU": " minute Feature, Syndicate, Inc.
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