WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1949
?AGE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
STfjeUatlr-lsratKeel
The official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North
Carolina, Chapel HU1. 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
6eml-weekly Entered as secqnd-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.
Editor
Business Manager
..ED JOYNER, JR.
. T. E. HOLD EN
Managing Editor
Sports Editor
Chuck Hauser
...Billy Carmichael III
Associate Ed
News Ed.
City Ed..
.Asst. Svt. Ed
Al Lowenstein
-Sally Woodhull
...Herb Nachman
Dick Jenrette
Adv. Mgr C. B. Mendenhall
Circ. Mgr. Owen Lewis
Subscrip. Mgr. Jim King
Asst. Bus. Mar Betty Huston
Editorial staff: Bev Lawler, Nat Williams, Bob Fowler.
News Staff: Margaret Gaston, Sam McKeel, Gordon Huf fines, Mike Mc
Daniel, Leonard Dudley, Roy Parker, Don Maynard, Wink Locklair, J. L.
Merritt, Virginia Forward, Art Xanthos, Jack Brown, Charles Pritchard,
Jimmy Leeson, Jimmie Foust, Graham Jones, Ann Sawyer. Emily Baker,
Emily Sewell, Bunnie Davis, Troy Williams, Sam Whitehall.
Society Editor Rita Adams
Society staff: Caroline Bruner, Lucile Conley, Lynn Hammock, Jane
Gower, Helen Stephenson, Ann Gamble.
Who Gets Geeseci?
The Advisory Budget committee of the state has caught
the board of trustees of the Greater University in a neat
squeeze play, and unless the state legislature, does some
thing about it that maneuver will cost students here, at
State and at Woman's college some '$1,877,000 in the next
two years. , i :. t
Taking into consideration that the board of trustees has
sole authority over tuition rates, the budget committee
"recommended" that the trustees raise tuition fees at the
University from $86 per annum to $150, with comparable
hikes for State' and WC. As it extended this "recommen
dation" in one softly gloved hand, the committee kept its
other hand behind its back and in that other hand was a
"persuader." . .
When it set up the University's recommended budget,
the committee decreased the amount to be appropriated
by the exact amount it estimated the increased tuition
would net. If the trustees do not raise tuition, the Uni
versity must obtam that revenue from other sources.
There are no other sources. So what happens? Natur
ally. Neat. Very neat. But that is only the beginning.
The proposal to increase tuition has Jeen made before
and the people of the state have objected. Why not this
time? Suppose some of the trustees and University offi
cials go over to Raleigh to the joint appropriations com
mittee and say, "Now look. The constitution of the state
says tuition at the University shall be as nearly free as
possible so as many people as possible can get an educa-.
tion. North Carolina needs educated citizens.
"You know that as well as we do, so instead of r.aising
tuition and keeping a lot of people from coming to school,
why don't you do it like you always have appropriate the
money out of state funds."
Well, this .year the legislature is being asked to appro
priate $50,000,000 to help the counties improve public
school facilities. The lower schools are badly in need of
new buildings, and there just isn't enough money to go
around. Should we take the money away from them, or
should we increase tuition?
Yes, the appropriations committee is in a dilemma. It's
just too bad that both ends of education are being played
against the middle, and either way the question is an-
swered, education loses. But there are a' few things that
are being overlooked:
Before the legislature is a bill to lower the corporate
franchise tax from $1.50 to $1.25 per $1,000 of determined
value. The object is to attract new industry to North Caro
lina, yet any economist will tell you that this tax is of
such relatively minor importance as to be almost negligible
in an industry's decision to locate in a particular state.
This bill will probably pass, and Governor Scott estimates
that it will result in a revenue loss to the state of approxi
mately $400,000 a year.
Before the legislature is a bill to remove the sales tax
from farm implements. The sales tax is not being removed
from other items, but the farm implimont dealers -have a
lobby in Raleigh. Estimate annual loss of revenue will be
$825,000. ; -- '
Before 4 the legislature is a bill to construct a coliseum,
and other improvements at the fair grounds,"less than three
miles from the State college coliseum. Proposed cost is
$1,985,000.
Are these items more important than education?
Captain Deserved Praise
Reviews of entertainment are seldom more than one
man's opinion, and sometimes not all of that. For instance,
in the review of the stage production "HMS Pinafore"
printed Sunday, one of the leading characters, Captain
Corcoran, was hot mentioned. This was not due to over
sight on the part of the reviewer but to cutting of the
article.
William Collins, the captain, was certainly due high
praise for both his singing and his acting. He took a char
acter usually played as a foil for the more important part
of Sir Joseph and made it one of the highlights of the
operetta. In an outstanding production, Collins' perfor
mance stood out.
BIGOT, n. One who is obstinately and zealously attached
to an opinion that you do not entertain.
BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English
a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity
of the two tongues.
ACADEMY, n. (from academe). A modern school where
football is taught.
Credit all to DEVIL'S DICTIONARY by Bierce "
Passing Sentence
Original Play
Bows Tonight
; By Jonathan Marshall
Chapel Hill theatre goers
will not want to miss "Inherit,
the Wind" which will be per
formed tonight and tomorrow
in the Playmaker's theatre.
"Inherit the Wind" was writ
ten by Gene McLain and will
be a three-act experimental
production of the Playmakers.
It has been interesting to
watch rehearsals this past week
and to see the play take shape.
There has been a constant
growth in intensity and under
standing as the cast has be
come more familiar with its
lines. Each day new. improve
ments are added by director
Sam Hirsh and author McLain
as the possibilities of greater
exposition unfold.
The story is about a family
which is dominated by the
mother who has withdrawn
them from the outside world.
It is a study of conflicting per
sonalities woven so tightly
that at first they seem to com
plement each other eliminat
ing the need for the outside
world. Slowly there is an
awakening which is climaxed
by the final escape of the three
daughters from their mother.
While on the subject of the
theatre, mention should be
made of a recent news item
which has not received much
publicity.
A bill was recently intro
duced into Congress by Rep
resentative Jacob Javits of
New York to provide for a
National Opera, National Thea
tre, and a National Ballet. The
American National Theatre and
Academy was a start, and Com
gressman Javits wants to make
it a living reality.
It is strange that a nation
such as ours should not have
government-sponsored theatre,
for. almost all of the large na
tions in Europe have it. Few
Americans outside of the larg
est cities receive the opportun
ity to obtain the best of the
world's culture. '
When our national budget is
in the billions, the few thou
sands of dollars that would be
required for a federal theatre,
ballet, and opera seem small.
The project would be largely
self-sufficient, and it would
certainly be popular.
Representative Javits' bill
deserves the support of every
one it will benefit everyone.
From the Inside
A Job For a Good Political Architect
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Maidens Not Monsters; Or, Maidens-Not Monsters
Seeking More Than Husbands
By Mary F. Johnston
In years to come there will
no doubt be a definite chapter
in history dedicated to a fabu
lous creature who roamed the
University of North Carolina
campus known as the Caro
lina Coed.
The annals will probably
contain accounts sworn to be
factual of women driving from
one fraternity house to another
in Cadillac convertibles see
ing if their date-books were
scheduled correctly for the
coming three months.
There will probably be quo
tations from men who vowed
they spent entire evenings
phoning coeds trying to get
one date on a week night for
a church party four months
away. They will tell, with a
certain bitterness they never
had before come in contact
with this breed of femininity,
of how some had coyly told
Lesser Campus Leaders Aghast
By Jim Southerland
,The "Charles O. Long for
President" petitions have the
campus political world buzz
ing this week. Lesser campus
leaders stand aghast at the
thought of having to oppose a
man of such well-known ex
perience and ability. The out
come of the petition drive will
be well worth watching.
The two-hour session Thurs
day night of the student legis
lature saw the long-delayed
passage of the Carolina forum
bill. The question of speaker
procurement and presentation
has been an important one as
well as the point of consider
able conflict. A brief statement
of the pros and cons on this
issue may help to clear the
smoke remaining from the bat
tle. The forum was set up to co
ordinate .the 'speaker procure
ment and presentation pro
grams of several major stu
dent organizations. Prior to the
forum a rash of conflicts had
plagued those interested in at
tending speeches. Under the
forum many of the conflicts
were eliminated but two points
of controversy arose.
The seven-man board set up
last year under the original for
um bill seemed to many stu
dent leaders a potential threat
to the Carolina tradition of
. presenting all points of view.
While there seemed no immedi
ate danger of censorship by the
forum, the law setting it up
offered ho safeguards for the
future. An amendment to the
new forum bill provides this
vital safeguard by permitting
any' speaker rejected by the
forum.
The second point of conflict
was not resolved Thursday.
Both sides have valid argu
ments which can only be test
ed by time. On one side there
is the opinion that the member
organizations need the experi
ence and publicity derived from
speaker procurement and pres
entation to build up and main
tain their memberships. Argu
ing that the forum is no strong
er than the organizations rep
resented on it, they seek to re
tain the right of independent
procurement and presentation.
On the other side there is
the opinion that the co-ordination
program will fail if these
major organizations retain the
right to act independently of
the central body. The student
legislature chose to support the
latter position.
By the time this column is
printed the Carolina Political
union, the original and most
active speaker presentation
group, will have decided what
course it must take under the
the new arrangement. After
careful consideration the CPU
may feel forced to withdraw
from the forum and work in
dependently of the forum but
in cooperation with it. The
CPU may, on the other hand,
choose to wait longer and hope
their fears are over-emphasized.
Whatever the CPU does, it
too will be trying to serve the
best interest of the campus as
it sees it.
In spite of the sneering of
some, the resolutions passed by
the student legislature are not
a waste of time. Ono recently
introduced by Bill Prince prov
ed a marked success. A special
committee set up under the
resolution conferred with the
administration on the situation
in the quonset huts. The result
was a solution satisfactory to
the men in the huts and an il
lustration of effective student
government.
them they would try to work
them in between their 7 and
9 o'clock dates while others
reported they had been pin
ned since their second day on
campus.
They will continue to relate
how these women heartlessly
picked over the seven men
alloted to each of them in
search for the only thing a
coed possibly attends college
for a husband. A few other
points such as the $15 mini
mum limit which must be spent
on every coed date will be
included and soon the picture
will be complete. People will
ask themselves, as have a
large majority of over 6,000
University men, just how the
male students were able to
bear up under the strain of
being constantly confronted
unless, of course, they took
hard courses by this disgrace
to womankind.
It is just possible that this
report, which is daily flashed
far and wide by persecuted
males of UNC, might accident
ally lack a few existing facts.
In comparing the seriousness
with which the girls regard
their studies as to that shown
by the boys, the sorority and
fraternity grades may be con
sidered a representative scho
lastic ranking of both sexes.
In tabulating the ratings of the
28 Greek organizations for the
Fall quarter a sorority topped
all fraternity averages and no
Washington Scene
sorority ranked below seventh
place. Last Spring quarter the
five sororities took the top
five places. This certainly
doesn't conform to the tales
of women who date every
school night, never entertain a
serious thought and find in
terest only in the clever art of
husband-hunting.
It would do well for the coed
criticizers to look around
themselves and carry on an un
biased comparison of the num
ber of women students who
are earnestly working to pre
pare themselves for an occu
pation and the number of men
who are getting out of college
what their parents or the Uni
ted States government are
putting into it. The fact that
four per cent of the men and
only one per cent of the wo
men flunked out of the Uni
versity this past quarter shows
that some excellent social en
tertainers and quite a few
"men of distinction" may blos
som from our Alma Mater.
It may be hard for some
boys to realize, but a Mr. Hyde
transformation does not take
place the minute a girl steps
on this campus. It has long
been time for a Carolina "gen
tleman" to act like a gentle
man and treat a coed in the
same manner he would a girl
from his home town instead of
a monster with seven heads.
It would be both appreciated
and deserved.
Lord Nelson Fired Dead Animals
By George Dixon
Made brief mention yester
day of the new text book the
Navy is getting out for its
reserve officers. It contains
many valuable hints to success.
One particular chapter has
my interest because it makes
me understand at last why
I have never been able to
command either attention or
respect at home, at work,
at play. It states:
"A command voice is essen
tial to the control of a group
. . .Everyone of us has experi
enced the embarrassment of
being under the command of
a person whose voice was
weak and apologetic.
"Make sure that you give
your orders loudly enough to
be clearly audible to the reci
pient. Watch the face of the
recipient for any quizzical ex
pression that might indicate
he has not clearly understood.
"By conscientious effort
make your voice colorful and
effective."
I must try being colorful
and effective the next time the
little woman gets a quizzical
expression on her pan. Here
she comes now! I'll try it:
"Hey you! Snap smartly to
attention when I address you
and take that dumb quizzical.
look off your kisser! Hold it!
Don't you know you can
get 30 days in the brig for
socking your superior officer
with a finnan haddie?"
One more item of intelli
gence, as supplied by the Navy
handbook:
Did you- know that Lord
Nelson fired garbage and dead
animals from his ships' gun,
hoping to start a pestilence
among Napoleon's hordes?
A party in Denver, who
signs himself merely "a friend,"
writes to ask if the Economic
Cooperation administration is
buying minks and sables for
the secretarial help.
He states he has been con
cerned ever since reading this
item in the papers:
"Secretarial help in the new
ECA building have been com
plaining about their fur coats
being burned by smokers while
riding in the elevators."
For the benefit of "a friend"
I have checked, and the coats
were not purchased with ECA
funds. Nor are all the ECA
secretaries fur-class. They just
don't like being singed, that's
all.
(Copyright, 1949, by King
Features Syndicate Inc.)
Spotted With Many Trials
The history of the world is spotted with many trials like the
Communists going on in New York today. In many of them
the prosecutors lived to rue the day they tried to supress thought
"legally." The frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti in Massachusetts,
of Tom Mooney in California, and Dimitroff in Berlin boome-
ranged. .
The spotlight being thrown on the federal jury system in the
Southern District of New York at the present trial reveals such
a perversion of the traditional system of jurisprudence in the
United States that it bids fair to eclipse the other issues in the
C3SC
According to Senior Judge John Clark Knox, the grand and
petit juries of New York now consist primarily of "superior"
citizens of "better" and "more select" quality. Instead of a jury
representative of the district, culled from the voting register as
before, jurors are now selected from The Social Register, Poor's
Directory of Directors, University alumni lists, etc. Laborers,
women, Negroes, Jews, and political minorities are excluded.
Juries loaded with upper-class jurors are, of course, biased.
Trial by a jury of one's peers, cornerstone of the democratic
process, has had the props knocked from under it. I doubt seri
ously whether the federal authorities would have risked a case
like the present if the jury system were otherwise.
Richard L. Koral
It's Ground Hog Day . . .
...So Why Not Celebrate?
By Ike Andrews
Most holidays are celebrated with zeal,
Hearts become light; happiness is real
We need to reap pleasure as much as' we may
So why not more celebration of Ground Hog Day?
It's said that his shadow
Will drive him away.
And he will not reappear
Until a far later day. .
Sure, the Ground Hog exists,
Do I know who he is?
Sure, for he is you.
I know this to be true.
You have your trouble like the winter's cold,
Then later you come out, as his story is told,
And in some realm the sun doth shine
Thus you see your shadow and it affects your mind.
You stupid fool,
Look what you've done,
You observed the shadow
Rather than the sun.
Thus you admit that you are the hog.
You were given good eyes but your mind's a fog.
You searched for the shadow, you son of a gun,
You searched for the shadow and ignored the sun.
Now look at yourself as I have said,
And within your mind let the hog be dead.
Now emerge and come out of that mental cold,
Don't look for the shadow be wise and bold.
Realize, Foolish One, when the shadows appear,
They but signify that the Sun is near.
So cease your quest for the shadow display,
And celebrate with me foolish Ground Hog day.
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