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IT 4 TUSEDAY, JANUARY 30, 1031 THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TWO m, Be Tt has 1 its h tion posi CI Kev lYej lar j hoi S pr? Ins the on 'SS ab ha eai nti xp kU ;xe ,tai iUS Spc Dot A iv Fr Fa: Po Afc M S E A B a Ft Th f - 5 ! Sail ar eel The official newspaper of the Publications Board of vhe University f North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is published -iaily .-hiring vhc : u!ar sessions of the University at Colonial Press. Inc., except Sun., Mon.. examinations -and vacation periods and during die off cial , u -.rr.er -.jrr.s ,.ie--pijblished semi-weekly. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of v,iiii(Ci win. jSi j-:;.- the acv 1 March 3. 1073. Subscription .iriec: !3 ' cr yea --. per quarter, : Menpr of the Associaled Pros?;, wh'c'i s oxcluslvely entitled to the' use-for republication -of all news and features herein. Opinions ex ire.-.frecl by colu r.nisls are not necessarily vhuse of this newspaper. Editor - - - - Manrcinsr- Editor Asroei.-yf Kflitor Sports FlitOr Business Manager ,r- And Tavlor, News Kditor . T ; Milton Jr., Assoc. Spt.1. -Kd. Faye Massengill. Socet' K'lytnr Nancy Burgess, A;,-.soc. ,S'oc. Sd. HOY DftHKER .TR. ... CHUCK . iAUojCR t)ON :VNARD ... 7.AE BOBBINS 3D WILLIAMS Tsc Cridieu. Ad. Mar. Oliver W-itkmr;, Office Mrjr. Shast;i Brvant. Ore. Mqr. Tom McCall. Subs. .1T.gr. News staff: Edd Davis, Walt Dear. Barrett ' Boulw:re, Mark Wolers. Pat Morse, t ogji.v Kciih, Ann Gowan, I'egsjy Anderson, Fletcher Hollingsworlh. Sports staff: Bill Peacock. Biff Roberts. Art Greenbaun, Ken Barton, Leo Northart. Ed Starnes. Bill Hughes, Jack Claiborne. Angelo Verdicanno. Society staff: Frann Sweat, Lu Overton, Lou Daniel. Tink Gobbcl. Helen Boone. x ------ . Business staff: Marie Costcllo. Marie Withers, Hubert Breeze, Bruce Marker, Bill Faulkner, Joyce tvaus, Beverly Serr, Jim Schnck. Jane Mayre. Jane Goodman. . For This Issue: Night Editor, Don Maynard Sports, jd Starnes Time For Acceleration :. With both Duke and Wake Forest planning accelerated curriculumS to cope with the pinch put on college students by the present emergency, it is time for the University to get down to work on the problem, too. f . Undoubtedly, the administration has plans for such a pro gram.. It has been discussed in meetings of the Student Wel fare .Board. Out of these informal talks have come several pertinent facts: rl- Dean of Admissions Roy Armstrong asserts that well over half of the freshman class estimated at about 500 will start their collegiate education at the first summer session. ' 2. The faculty and administration will gear itself to a larger-than-usual enrollment during the summer session. 3. The University intends to keep its present four-quarter system until such time as it is ordered to change by any mil itary service which might use the campus ,for training purposes. All of these facts point to a job for student government. That job is to gear itself to a four-quarter, round-the-clock performance of duty. It means that the major part of orienta tion will have to be held this summer. It may mean that studies should be conducted toward making the student ac tivities budget a four-quarter affair, rather than the present three-quarter measure. Plans must also be laid for assuring sufficient operating personnel to meet the needs of a summer student government that will be handling jobs not normally required, of summer government. " But student government could more easily prepare itself for this task if the administration would make and announce some definite plans about its acceleration. Will there be any change in the basic summer school setup? iWillilt stilP be considered as a separate unit, with a special dean directing the operations, or will such an arrangement be dispensed with and the regular administration run the summer-session as it docs the other three quarters? , N These are questions that must be answered 'if student government is to properly meet the challenge of a round-the-clock job. There are but four months before the summer ses sion is upon us. The student government administration that is elected in the spring election will have little over a month to prepare its summer session plans. A stepped-up orientation program must be prepared immediately, if the incoming first year class is to receive the benefit of such a training program. The University administration should, as soon as practi cal, announce any plans and policies it has along the lines of acceleration of curriculum. By doing so, it will not only aid student government's task, but take a step toward meeting the extingencies placed on the University by the present emergency. Worthy Experiment - The University Party has ejected a novel experiment into campus politics with its announcement last week of plans to hold meetings of the party's steering committee in dormi tories and fraternity houses. The idea could be an asset to student government if it is successful. The avowed purpose is to arouse greater interest in politics by holding the meetings at places more accessible to the student body. There are. many problems that will arise when the plan is in operation, however. Some of them are well-nigh impossible to solve. How, for instance, will coed representatives be able to attend meetings' held in dormitories? Where, in dormitories, will there be found a meeting space which can accommodate a large enough group for such a meeting to be termed successful? Even with these problems, the plan could be an asset. Of course, the UP will continue to make major policy decisions in closed meetings of the steering committee. That is certainly compatible with good sense, and is the proper way for such decisions to be made when the steering committee is the body responsible for such policy-making. The open meetings could be useful in getting an idea of student opinion, and in the nominating of. Student Legislature candidates. Its overall effect could be an extremely good one. And: it is high time the University Party began seeking ways to ; make itself a more-effective political organization. The .party, has too often cut its own throat by intra-party politicking, ; and student government and student welfare have suffered because of the situation. The party has virtually lost all semblance of an effective political organization on the campus-wide level. Itssphere of influence is shrinking to an area no bigger than fraternity court. Such a situation is extremely bad for student welfare, student government, and student politics. The UP has the means to become an effective political organization. The new meeting-place plan could be the first step down a comeback "on the Carolina FRONT by Chuck Hauser '. ; . . ! i ; -. I am having a rather difficult time writing this --column, as I am alternating" between sitting down and standing up for each paragraph. When I stand up and type, my back hurts. When I sit down to type, , a portion of my anatomy slightly lower does the hurting. ? ; It's nothing to get, alarmed about. I just went: horseback, riding over the weekend. Don't laugh; it. really wasn't my first experience on the back of man's almost-best friend. I first threw my ctiubby little legs over the back of a.cpw-pony at the tender age of -seven, when my family was residing at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, back in the good, old days when "caval- 1 ry" meant "cavalry" and not tanks. .... f remember riding through the woods and trails around Fort Sam with an old sergeant who was my instructor and idol. My first mount and continual pal was a fine old brown grandf a ther of a horse named Slim who wouldn't Imrt a fly if he wanted to. I stronelv suspect the reason was that Slim had neither teeth nor the power to raise his back legs far enough to kick, anybody. I got along fine with my rid ing, until I was told that I had graduated out of , Slim's class and would have to start riding a horse for a change and leave my four-legged friend, for the use of other neophytes just learn ing the delicate art of straddling a one-ton hunk of horseflesh. There were two horses I rode almost exclusively i from that time on. One . was a dirty white rhare named Martha, and the other was a jet black piece of viciousness by the deceptive handle of Princess. ; 'j Martha was a horse's horse. She was big,' probably the big gest animal I've ever climbed on. She was fairly well behaved, .and we got along fine until one day she decided she wanted a little more exercise than I had planned oh. She took off at ,a full .gallop and scared the be jesus , out of me . before r I was -rescued by a kind-hearted sav iour my father- who cantered up on a beautiful brown gelding named Country Boy and slow ed Martha down to a furious trot while I got control of my wils and grabbed the reins in stead of the saddle horn. Princess was a continual source of trouble, however. I only wish she were a female dog instead of a horse, and then I could call her by an ap propriate name without" seeming to be vulgar in print. The dirtiest trick Princess ever pulled on me was deliberately- running over asmajor who was in the center ; of , a riding ring directing us in class form ations one Saturday morning. I could see the "collision coming, but " Princess was amazingly taken with an ' acute attack of blindness. The major's back was to us when Princess crashed into his right shoulder. Such a stream of profanity the ears of little children have never been sub jected to before or since. But back to my weekend rid ing. I hadn't, until Saturday after noon, been on a horse for several years. I never realized quite so vividly before "how many muscles the sport requires.. My shoulders ache, my back aches, my backsides ache, and my legs ache. I started off on a gentle plug named Lady. Lady was so much of a lady that she thought it be neath her dignity to. da anything requiring more enet-gy than a walk a slow walk. Fifteen minutes . was all I could take of iriy lady friend. I switched to a black and brown gelding named Smoky, and en joyed the rest of the afternoon. While Lady got offended if you indicated you liked to trot now and then instead of walk, Smoky got offended when, you let him know that you preferred a trot from time to time to the canter which seemed to be the animal's specialty and favorite pastime. A canter, in 'case you don't know, is almost worse on an out . of-training posterior than a trot is to a novice who hasn't yet learned to post. But Smoky gave me a good ride for my moTieyt-and I plan on asking for him when I return for another riding session. But that won't be anytime real soon. I'm going to recuperate from my present bruises v before I go -eotttlingany TBore. " - t" - "A Mm? f - -? I V V .(.i 11 i t "T vj V- WA , P f"" Tar Heel At Large by Robert Ruark, '35 The enforcement of a draft act is a thing of grimness and heavy responsibility, and although we have had three cuts at it in the last half cen tury, we have not done a( very competent job. Too many cunnythumbed crooks have corrupted the broth; in my time, at least, whether you be came a warrior seemed more a matter of luck than purpose. We always seem to work at cross-purpose. Maybe this is the fault of bad organization and foolish public relations. In my memory I recall very little constancy in draft announcements, but I do remember awful heavy contradiction. I remember from newspapers and magazines and short trips back home that the administration of the World War II draft always appeared to be fluxing. Seems like they made up a new set of rules each week. Certainly, in the postwar, Selective Service has run along in a disgracefully slipshod fashion, with some of the early candi- t dates getting the old tap, and the other liable lads shunning the khaki because of spottily filled quotas and government indecision. In the last few days we have seen differing statements from Gen. George Marshall and his assistant, Anna Rosenberg three times. Accord ing to what I read, Gen. Marshall was first dis puted by Anna, regarding the harshness of en forcement of the momentary draft act, and then Anna came back around to backstop her boss. Point being that the boys and girls ought to get together. You can oversimplify anything, of course, but the drafting of men is actually a pretty simple procedure. You fix an age limit. You fix a stand- ard of health. You fix various classifications of service. Then you cast a noose around the necks of the people who fit those categories and put them to work where they can do the most good. All this conversation about the immunity of athletes with technical ailments which qualify them for deferment was, is, will be ridiculous. Anybody who can play professional footballv box in a prize ring, or perform on a baseball diamond is healthy enough to be-a soldier. The old busi- ness about punctured eardrums and sagging arches is so much hogwash. There should be a, rule of thumb on professional athletes: If they are healthy enough to earn a living as athletes they are healthy enough to go. to war in some capacity, if only that of KP or cigarette sniper in the barracks yards. This applies to actors and other ."special" cases. Mickey Rooney, for instance, ducked that draft a long, long time, as did many another of his guild. Rooney never helped my morale a nickel's worth in the last war, by remaining out for most of the action. The late Carole Landis, yes, but Rooney, no. A ham can swab a mess kit as well as the next boy, police a barracks, or answer a phone or hustle a hunk of paperwork. In the name of heaven, let us finally, in this mess, set out some inflexible rules and regula tions on who goes and who stays. Let us play, a few less games with pull and politics, and deal on even shake for the draft bait. It is an insult to be shot in the tail while an equal plays pro fessional football degrading to die while some facemaker plays the entertainme.nt circuit or some scrivener like me battens on to a juicy Washington writing job. The draft is the great destroyer of civil lib erty, as death is the great leveller, and let us try to parcel out both draft, and its basic implica tion, death, on a basis of pure equality. On The Soap Box by Bob Seiig I have stuck my foot in hot water and have scalded it. Some people have misunderstood what I said about "tin soldiers." Some j didn't realize that when a thing is said in a jokirig manner it is not entirely serious. They have'( accepted the literal face meaning of the words which were set down on the printed page and pot the impli cations. . " I i The results were many. I have received num erous outraged complaints and een one crank telephone call, apparently from ja mental de fective. ' I do wish to apologize to any ROTC trainees who regarded the column the other day as a personal insult to them or their organization. It was not meant to be, and I'm sorry if it appeared so. It was merely an expression of resentment toward that noisy minority which seems to feel that belonging to ROTC is much more than a wartime expediency. Toward those relatively few who feel that extreme patriotism is involved in marching around on a college campus. Toward those who feel that the act of attend ing a class in military science is an act of hero ism. Toward those who adopt a truculent, holier-than-thou attitude about the whole thing.- It is a , resentment which I'm sure would be shared by those brave men who are bleeding to death in the slaughterhouse known as Korea. It is a resent ment which I hope . is shared by most of the ROTC themselves. , I would respectfully suggest that most of those who have joined ROTC have not done so entirely out of altruism or patriotism. That they were influenced in part by a desire to prolong their stay in college, to delay active service, to achieve a profitable commission, or a .combina tion of all three. I said the other day that I sympathized with all these motives, and I meant it. I am only un sympathetic if a trainee pretends that they don't exist. Of course, I do not say that someone who has been influenced to join for these reasons is unpatriotic or that these things preclude sincerity or patriotism. I do respectfully suggest that a man moti vated solely by altruism and patriotic motives would not have joined ROTC. That he would have rushed out to join the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines and would have attempted to see active duty as soon as possible. I do main tain that our greatest military Iackingis. in man power and that the zealous patriot would have done his small bit to relieve this. ' And I-vvould l?o maintain that we need troops as soon as possible and that the two, three or four years which are taken up by ROTC are not helping this urgent need. To me, the men who went and joined the active branches of the armed forces, who hurried to get into the actual fighting are the real heroes. - --- - The Editor's Mailbox - Insult Added To Injury Editor: , . Bob Selig's ridiculous article in Friday mornings Daily Tar He i has undoubtably aroused a great deal of resentment among th, members of the ROTC, as well as the student body. " It c-rtainly is a shame 'that Mr. Selig, whose room happens to be 'situated at the hub of the campus, muit be disturbed in the morn ing by the martial music accompanying the raising of the American Flag. ' - If Mr Selig desires peace and quiet, hs should transport hini - self to some spot like the Chapel Hill golf course, where the twtet ing of the birds will soothe his shattered nerves. I -feci that the raising of the Flag accompanied by appropriate music is an'inspiring experience to behold. Surely, there are many men in other parts of the world who 'would give a .'most any th in to sea and hear such an experience. Not Mr. Selig he doesn't want his sleep disturbed. Selig, however, was not content with insulting the efforts of the drurn and bugle corp. He added insult to injury by infenin;; that the ROTC is composed of men whose only reason for joining is to keep out of the service. Perhaps Mr! Selig would have known better if he had been in Chapel Hill before this past Srptenih-r. Let this serve to inform him that ROTC has existed on this campus long before him or the Korean war. It is difficult to see the purpose of . inserting such trivia m The Daily Tar Heel. The entire article concerned an event that lasted only a few minutes. Jack Cohen Something To Chew On Editor: 1 Bob Selig, in his column Friday morning, r forred to the AKOTC students as "the campus tin soldiers." I would like for Mr. Pcli to understand that we are not tin soldiers and do not appreciate being called such. Someday he might have to eat those words along with a few of his teeth. I suggest, that if he doesn't like the way we raise the flag, for him to slip out of. his warm bed some morning at 7 o'clock and raise it himself. Don Williams 'Of Thee I Sing' by Tom Kerr Some. 3,500 local playgoers turned " out last weekend to .see what the Carolina Piaymakers could do with Gershwin's Pulitzer-Pnze-winmng musical, Of Thee 1 Sing. And they were not disap pointed, lor a laugh a minute, the lively music, and an arresting pageant of bold colors made of tms three-hour production breatn taKing theater and hearty entertainment. Chief credit lor this terrific success goes to the directors, Bill Macllwinen and Hank Beebe. That these two young men were able to assemble and train over eighty-five students and townspeople for this gala production was in itself a feat. But that they should produce such a heart-warming success should command the ad miration of everyone. Passing out the appropriate bouquets to this huge cast would be an endless task. But particular mention must be given to thoe principals who turned in more than capable performances. The ro mantic leads were handled by talented and versatile Anne Martin and Chapel Hill's popular tenor, Lanier Davis. Philip Bernanke played the comic lead with a rare gift for creating a genuinely humorous character. In support Jim Ginther, John Shearin, Phil Kennedy, and Bob Thomas gave performances which were highly creditable in a college production. Mr. Thomas deserves particular note for his dynamic portrayal of President Wintcrgrccn's right hand man. Larry Peerce, for two years one of the campus' leading comics, has at last found himself a fellow funnyman in Hansford Rowe. With Mr. Peerce's constant mugging, and Mr. Rowe's bright-faced underplaying the pair make an unbeatable comedy team. But it is to the chorus that the real kudos belong. This group of talented singers and dancers backed up the show with resound ing song and some clever dance routines. Irene Smart did the costuming, and with the use of bold prim ary colors she created on the stage a captivating pageant of startling contrasts. The show, of 1931 vintage, was dated in places. There were allusions which brought back memories to the old folks and left the students wondering. 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