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Campus Constitution Cogs of the Wheel From the Bell Tower TWUA Welcomed New Loan Fund Yack Plans Serving- Civilian and Military Students at UNC VOLUME LIII SW CHAPEL HILL, N. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1945 NUMBER SW 75 Graham And House Welcome TWUA Delegates To University New 500 Dollar ' Student ' Loan 'Fund Announced By The Grail Funds WillBeSF Trnnne Jointly With m mtvrir, At Frolics University By Tom Wicker Archie Hood, Delagata of the Grail, today. made public plans for a student loan fund handled by the Grail which is to be known as The Grail Character Loan Fund. This aid will be available to any worthy student in need of it, either male or female. Dick Stoker, President of Sound and Fury, announced today that there will not be the usual summer show this year. He stated that this was due to the fact that all the summer talent at Carolina has gone into hiding. How ever, since a new flood of talent is The Fund will consist of $500 from expected to be recruited "shortly after tiie regular Grail loan funds which are tne beginning of the September-No- regulated by the University. All loans vemDer term, there will be a show pro- are to be considered and passed on not auced early in the new session. cnly by the University loan fund of- It was further announced that be Gcials, but also by the Grail Scholar- ginning next Friday night, his organi ship Committee. The purpose of this loan, as stated by the Grail, is "to make available for worthy students, either ' male or fe male, a loan which will not require either lengthy or difficult, endorse ments." It is felt that many students who need, and who are worthy of, stu dent aid, do not attempt to receive such aid because of the length of time and the difficulties involved in procur ing the loans. . ' Pete Pulley, Secretary of the Grail, stated that the members of the Grail believed that a loan fund such as they are setting up will not only alleviate many difficulties encountered by stu dents in obtaining aids, but will also cause many needy students to attempt to get such aid who would not ordin arily do so. Pulley further stated that as yet, no stipulation had been made as to the amount any one student may receive at-one time from the original $500 fund. Bill Hight Resigns From YMCA Cabinet And Tar Heel Post Bill Hight, acting president of the YMCA cabinet, announced today that on the advice of his physician, he has submitted his resignation to the mem bers of the cabinet. He will leave the post immediately. It was also announced that Frank Match, NROTC member, would take over Hight's position until Pat Kelly returns in September. Because of a recent illness Hight was advised to cut down on his campus activities and has obtained a leave of absence from -the Tar Heel, on which he has served as Associate . Editor. He will retain his positions on the Publications Union Board and as a member of the Legislature. See page four for an editorial feature and summary of the jani tors wage increase, written by a Tar Heel staff member. zation would provide the mid-inter- mission entertainment at the Friday Night Frolics, held in the Graham Me morial Lounge under the guidance of Harvey White. OWIRadios Graham Dicta To The Allies A summary of the War Labor Board's policy-making wage decision, for wartime labor, now famous as the Southport case, which was written by President Frank P. Graham of the University, a public member of the WLB, was recently picked up by the O.WI and broadcast to the peoples of Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia as an interpretation of , basic Amer ican principles. r ' ,v' VV'' High tribute was paid to President Graham's opinion in the Southport case in an address in the United States Senate recently by Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon, a former member of the WLB. According to the Congressional Record, Senator Morse -said in the course of his address: "I am very proud to have been .a member , of a board which for the first time in the history of the United States, handed down a decision in the famous South port case, ruling that, as a wartime labor policy, no employer under the jurisdiction of the board could pay one rate to white employees and an other rate to colored employees for the same work. 'OWN. Tes$1o-n-f cnoa-fr Hopicinn till , M ILOIUlllUj (J. V-fc W in the Southport case was written, in by judgment, by one of the 25 great est living Americans, Dr. Frank P. Graham, president of the University of North Carolina, the son of a Con federate soldier. I say it is one of the great decisions in the annals of American law." s. Two Speakers And Institute Leader k iJMaMriT i it n mm i i Mil n 1 4i .. : v:-;v;vv'--v'.;; - ; : ' ' -s i - Ik.-. A RUSSELL CARROLL GRUMMAN Shown above are two members of the University faculty who will speak before the TWUA during the week, PhilHps Russell and Dean Dudley Carroll, and R. M. Grumman, of the University, who is in charge of arrang ing the Institute. The Tar Heel was unable to obtain a picture of another University, professor, Harry D. Wolf, who will also, address . the -TWUA delegates. Daddy Warhucks Still Alive But Yack Is Still Orphaned Flagler Seeks Home For 1946 Yearbook f Little Orphan 1946 Yackety Yack: will conduct a staff meeting Tuesday afternoon for those students inter ested in signing up for business and editorial work on the 1946 yearbook. The meeting will be held in the Grail Room of Graham Memorial : Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock. ; Editor Flagler explained the rea son for the monicker, Little Orphan. It seems that Flagler thinks there is too little interest for one thing and for the next thing the '46 book has no home. The 1945 yearbook, which is at the printers and which is supposed to be ready for circulation within the next three weeks, still holds the office con sequently, the '46 book is homeless. Graham Memorial director, Harvey White, told Editor Flagler newly mod eled Yack quarters would be ready for occupancy by the middle of Septem ber. Flagler said he hoped a freshly painted office might be some induce ment for students to join the Yack staff. At the end of the week, Flagler plans to make a trip to Charlotte to go over the plans for the 1946 book with the printers. Flagler said that he didn't want to make manv rash promises, but that he hoped the 1946 book would hit the campus before the end of the last reg ular term next year. mmtmmmmm "wmm & 1 1' A v I H - ,s? J - t&M? . - v V. FLAGLER German Club Plans First Fall Dance Aged Bull's Head Bookshop Breeds Ideal T.nontinn Fnr Book Hunaru UJL students By Sam Summerlin "Browse, Borrow, or Buy," is the slogan of the Bull's Head Bookshop, a c.no rlaee with an atmosphere of leisure and informality: a haven for heat-sick' and study-sick students seeking comfort and enjoyment. The Bull's Head Bookshop, located on the ground floor of the left wing of Hip University library, has stuffed leather seats for a student's comfort and a large supply of the most cur rent fiction and non-fiction books, on subjects varying from cartoon albums to mystery stories, for a student's en joyment. Books For. Rent Realizing that most students who come to the University have little money to spend on books, the Bookshop has a system whereby every book in the shop is both for rent or for sale. A book may be rented for four days for ten cents, with three cents for every day overtime, or for two weeks at a flat rate of twenty-five cents. Each time a book is rented, on its return ten percent is deducted from the retail cost of the book. Therefore, a student de siring to buy a book at a very re duced price can wait until the book has been rented out several times, and then make his purchase. And with popular books, the time a would-be purchaser has to wait before buying a book is often very short, and, of course, if a student desires and has the money he can buy a new book at any time. This system has been one of the primary factors contributing to the Bookshop's continual success. Howard Mumf ord Jones, former pro fessor of English at the University of North Carolina, founded the , Bull's Head Bookshop in 1928 in his office in Murphey Hall, his purpose being- to afford to the undergraduates a chance to read some of the current books, on varied subjects. The Bookshop was such a success that shortly thereafter it was moved to the YMCA building, thereby giving the shop a chance to serve more of the students and to give them a larger supply of books. Jones Leaves In 1930, Professor Jones left the University, and it was only a short time before the shop felt the loss of his influence and direction. By 1935 , it seemed as if the shop was on the way out. However, nn 1936, Miss Nora E. Betist, assistant professor in the school Of library science, succeeded in persuading Mr. R. B. Downs, Uni versity librarian, to put the Bookshop under the management of the Univer sity library. Soon after, the Bull's Head Bookshop was made a part of the Extension Library and given the site which it now occupies. Since then, its success has clearly demonstrated the interest which students have in current books. The origin of the name "Bull's Head Bookshop" has long been a mystery. Many people support the idea that the Bookshop was given that name be- -C l. . i1 11 cause ujl iiic iiiixuy uuii scaaiuua which the students held in the office of Mr. Jones in 1928. However, it seems that even Mr. Jones himself did not exactly recall how the name originated, for in a letter, published in the "Retail Bookseller" for October, 1936, he wrote: "I don't remember that there was any special significance to the phrase Bull's Head Bookshop except my in sistence, since so many undergradu ate boys tend to think of books and literature as a sissy business, that the name of the bookshop, at any rate, be masculine. Perhaps Bull Durham was floating vaguely around in the back of See BULL'S HEAD, page U. Tentative plans have been announced by the German Club for their first dance of the year which will be held September 29, the weekend of Caro Una's first home football game, which will be with Georgia Tech. Due to re strictions on Carolina's military pop ulation, dances will be heldpne night only. No orchestra has been definitely en gaged as of yet, but possibilities in clude Johnny Long, Tony Pastor, Son ny Dunham, and Dean Hudson. Fur ther plans for the affair will be avail able approximately August 15. The German Club consists of the following fraternities: DKE, KA, Beta, ATO, SAE, Kappa Sig, Zeta Psi, Sigma Nu, and Sigma Chi. Club offi cers are Charlie LaMotte, president; Adam Thorpe, vice president; Boots Walker, treasurer; and Guy Andrews, secretary. And I Say Again, Keep Off The Grass m i The University Administration would like to request again that students do not walk on the grass. Some of the signs put up to prevent walking on the grass have been torn down and the . wire barriers have been disregarded. There are no policemen to enforce the rule; the administration relies upon the cooperation - of the stu dents and the student government to enforce it. Playmakers Announce Experimental Plays; Tryouts On Friday Tryouts will be held Friday at 4:00 in the Playmakers Theatre for three experimental one-act plays written by members of Professor Sam Selden's playwriting course. Each of the thir teen members of the class has sub mitted at least one play, of which the best three will be chosen this week. After the Friday tryouts, the Play makers will start work on the All University productions to be perform ed August 23. The experimental plays selected will have been written and are to be directed and acted in by Carolina students, under the super vision of Foster Fitz-Simons, who is teaching a course in play production and stage craft. Tryouts for parts in he experimentals are open to anyone interested, male actors being especially sought. These experimentals mark the be ginning of Playmaker activities for the Fall. Kai Jurgensen who directed "Skin of Our Teeth" last year will rejoin the staff in September and is expected to direct the forthcoming pro duction of Vincent Carol's "White Steed." During the past summer the Play makers staff has been busily engaged. Foster Fitz-Simons has been working on a novel, Kai Jurgensen on two long plays, and Sam Selden on three differ ent books, one of which is for the Na tional Theatre Conference, and con sists of contributions from leading di rectors of community theatres over the country. ' Rieve Greets Unionists On Sunday Night Addressing the pening ses sion here Sunday night of the Textile Workers Institute, Emil Rieve, president of the Textile ! Workers Union of America and alternate member of the War Labor Board, stressed three main points: "1. That Southern unionists hope to do their part in reliev ing the South's poverty. "2. That organized textile workers wish to take part in all wholesome community life. "3. That the University is lending its facilities . to union members just as it does to busi ness and professional men. Praises University "It,is only natural that a great Uni versity like this, a leader in so many things, should open its doors to trade unionists as students, even if only for a week," President Rieve said. "It is true that other universities and colleges have given hospitality to labor union members just as they have to business and professional men, to bankers and technicians." In opening its doors to the Insti tute, "This University is not organiz ing unions or trying to tell them what to do," he said. "It is leaving that to the unions , themselves, and none of us is asking that the Univer sity, step out of its own field that of making education available to alL "Thoughtful Southerners have rec ognized that poverty is the curse of the South. This i3 the burden of the recent article in Collier's by Governor Arnall of Georgia. These same thoughtful Southerners, I am sure, would recognize that the most impor tant frontal attack upon Southern poverty has been the wage drive of the Textile Workers Union of America. Rev. Carpenter Rev. J . Henry Carpenter, New York, of the Federal -Council of Churches of Christ in America, who spoke on the cooperative movement in the United States at the Monday night's session of the Institute, de livered the sermon in the Presby terian church Sunday morning. He stressed the view that "the United Nations Charter, important and valuable as it is, alone will not bring peace. Peace throughout the world can only come through broth- See TWUA, page U. Southern Employers Don't Understand Aims Of Labor By Buddy Glenn In a Tar Heel interview Mr. Emil Rieve, President of the Textile Work ers Union of America, stated that the greatest problem facing the labor movement in the South was the lack of understanding of the aims of labor unions by the Southern employers. Mr. Rieve is good-natured, of me dium height and appears very intelli gent and efficient. If one did not know of his background and took only su perficial impressions of him, he might well think that he is a typical suc cessful business man. He might well have been if he had directed activities oward personal achievement by the commonly accepted methods rather han by casting his lot with the labor movement. - Behind this pleasant, unassuming personality is a life of rich experi ences which has followed a variation of the Horatio Algier motif. He went tc work when he was thirteen in full fashioned hosiery mills as a laborer. He continued in this industry umtil he was elected President of American Federation of Hosiery Workers, a branch of the TWUA. In 1939 he as- RIEVE sumed his present position as Presi dent of the TWUA. He has served in many government agencies such as the War Labor Board, Textile Standards Commission of the NRA, and many others. He repre 'See SOUTHERN, page 1.