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SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1952 THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE THREE In A M ountain Cove (Ed. Note This is another in r ihe current series ol articles 1 o nSucimer Service Projects written by students who at tended work camps, or made study tours here and abroad last summer. Today's written by Tom Donnelly, is concerned with a work camp at Swan nanoa. North Carolina.) by Tom Donnelly In a mountain cove near Swannanoa, North Carolina, last summer, a few young men got together and put up a one room building, designed to be the administrative center of a con ference site. There was nothing spectacular or "glamorous about it; young people at work camps all over the world were doing similar things. We happened to be working with building materials-other young people worked with soil or manufactured goods, or human lives. We lived in an abandoned mountain cabin-even the squat ters had given it up. When it rained, the water came through the holes in the roof and left through the holes in the floor. For pets, a couple of. stray dogs adopted us-Philosopher, he of the lean and hungry look, and Ermintrude, his g;rl friend. Oh yes, and a half interest? in a jersey cow wno gave us a gallon of milk a day, and her calf, who was good for nothing except tearing up our badminton net. For transportation, we had a Jeep: for amusement, there were weekly concerts of modern music at Black Mountain Col lege a few miles away. We were not entirely alone- the youngsters in the community came up to watch us work and to play badminton and horse shoes with us. On a week end we would have a dozen people around the place. Of course, we weren't the only attraction there was a deserted apple or chard up the hill, and we had a wonderful blackberry patch in our front yard. Our daily routine was just what you would expect-break- fast, meditations, work, lunch, and work again til late after noon. Our evenings were spent reading, writing, talking, or singing together. ...But describing, a work camp isn't the important thing-it still doesn't explain what makes - a work camp run, why young people will give up lucrative summer positions to bury them selves in jobs whose only reward. are those of the spirit. That is the thing that really needs to be explained about the whole work camp movement. We tried to explain it to the young people who watched us putting up our building, and they couldn't understand why we should be working there. We finally gave up trying to explain. The explanation I would give is something like this: All of us hold values, or at least give ourselves credit for doing so. We all enjoy saying we believe in Freedom, Democracy, the In trinsic Rights of Man, the Sac redness of Personality, and so forth. But every once in a while we catch a glimpse of ourselves as we rf ally are and see that all our noble values are only for show and not really built into our daily lives and work ing schedules. Somehow we have to discover working models to correspond to noble sentiments; we have to find a practical equi valent for every ideal, or else our ideals are unreal. That is wht work camps are trying to do-to teach people to pray wih. their muscles, and praise God with the sweat of their brow. The work camp at Swannanoa is sponsored by' the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen. Any man interested in spending his summer in such a profitable manner may contact Bob Barrus, Celo, N. C, or in Chapel Hill; George Worth, Presbyterian church, J. C. Herrin, Baptist church, or John Riebel, Y.M.C.A. FinCS bring it around here, so we could cram it down their throats." In most fraternities which have accepted the enforced voting chapter meetings will be held Wednesday afternoon. After this the members will go together to the polls. Or, in other cases, stu dent identification cards will be checked to determine who failed to vote. Those who haven't voted will be penalized. In a Daily Tar Heel check yes terday afternoon the" following fraternities stated that they had approved the failure to vote pen alties: Pi Kappa Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma Alpha En silon and Sigma Chi. Of the 23 fraternities and sororities contact ed (there are 31 on the campus) some refused to comment on the matter, others had "been approach ed on the subject and rejected it. Sigma Nu replied that their fra ternity meetings were secret. The proposal is allegedly sched uled to be presented to 20 fra ternities and four sororities. - Barney Boardman, speaking for himself and "others" who initiated the plan, told The Daily Tar Heel that they are encouraging "fra ternities and sororities to use any means they see fit, even putting in incentive plans, to get their members to the polls." . "We have in no way told peo pie how, or for whom, they shoulc vote," he said. "What we are in terested in is getting people to vote in order to build a stronge' student government." He explained that they felt in terest in student government has been very poor, among students on this campus. "It is every stu dent's duty to vote and show an interest in his student govern "ment," he said. "Therefore we are trying to en courage fraternity and sorority members to become interested in student government and vote in the coming elections," Boardman asserted. They refused, however, to re lease for publication a semi-resolution drawn up last - week .which urged that fraternities unite to place candidates favorable to fra ternities in office. It asserted that fraternities has been excessively and unjustly criticized recently, and claimed that only fraternity men could understand unique fraternity sit uations.. Specifically mentioned was the recent so-called hazing incident . involving . Phi Gamma Delta, after which President Hen ry Bowers called for the transfer of hazing cases from the IFC court to the Men's Honor" Council. (The Phi Gam's passed the voting en forcement, for this election only.) Barton (Continued From Page 1) men who wish to benefit no one but themselves by maintaining the fraternity block vote," Barton said that the "University Party, which pretends to protect fratern ities, only hurts them with such action as this." "This is a big campus," Barton commented, "and student govern ment officers must realize it is their duty to serve the entire cam pus equally, expending their ef fort to help everyone." "The confessed purpose of this move is to place the fraternities in a position of complete and sel fish dominance in campus politics No move could be more surely calculated to create a genuine and justifiable hostility towards fra ternity men on the part of the rest of the campus," Barton said. WANT TO SEE "PAL JOEY? -HERE? HOW! "Pal Joey" is currently Broadway's biggest hit. Lines at the CroadhurstTheatreall daylong. No seats available forweeks. . k I V t. J,.mimm' L ir vou ere com nq ro new iwik uwuuu JUMP. JULY nnH AUGUST it will be easy to see this brilliant musical comedy if you write for reservations NOW. Mail orders from your college will be given prompt attention. "A BEILUIJIT FE0llS&TIIil!H-ATKlNSON, N. Y. Times yfe "A ROMiG SUCCESS!" LIFE MAGAZINE fpX . 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