Two
B
aeked Projects Fail Derm Fall Quarter
Co-Op Cleaners, Campus
Theater Meet Opposition
Reporter Traces Hard
Fought History Of
Student Ideas
Officials Stand
By Bob Perkins -"
Crying for support, two student-backed
projects 'have been
hurled at the student body and
the administration this fall. Both
have failed to gain the necessary
financial backing and recogni
tion: one from the administra
tion, the other from the student
hody.
The odd part of the situation
is that the project wanting the
support of the University ad
ministration, apparently had the
support of the student body;
while the other, having the un
spoken backing of the adminis
tration, was unable to attract
adequate financial student support.
Indirect Factor
It would appear from this
that both projects would have
been put into effect if the two
factors directly concerned would
have cooperated. However, it is
because of a factor indirectly
effected that they did not co
operate Franklin street.
The truth of the matter ip that
the University administration is
not in a position to recognize,
officially, a student cooperative
movement, which would not in
volve the administration in any
tangible form. So, naturally, it
withdraws quickly when there
is some mention made of using
one of the University's own
buildings to show commercial
films.
Burnt Fingers
Too many times already the
administration has gotten its
fingers nearly burnt by the mer
chants. So it is impossible to
expect the administration to
stick its neck out on a new ven
ture which does not even show
the slightest possibility of be
ing a financial success such as
the book-exchange and dormi
tory stores have become.
- The administration, though it
may have blundered in some in
stances, has attempted from an
early date to protect its student
body from being "exploited
through private enterprises."
Protection Limited
But due to the set-up which
has evolved out of the history of
the University and the corres
ponding history of Chapel Hill,
it has been limited.
This is not the fault of the
administration nor the Chapel
Hill merchants. It is merely a
situation which has come into
existence through the passage of
time, and which, if recognized,
might tend to settle once and
for all the feuds between the
the legislature to prohibit dor
mitory stores and any other use
of University property for the
conduct of a mercantile busi
ness. Self -Protection
On their part it was a protec
tive measure. If steps were not
taken to check the University,
they might wake up in the near
future to realize that their busi
ness had been taken over by the
State, leaving them nothing but
the stores and the stocks that
they had struggled years to
build into a business enterprise.
Chapel Hill was their home as
much as the University's. Many
a business had been in the hands
of their families for generations.
But a compromise was effect
ed. The merchants withdrew
the bill while it was still pend
ing- before the Senate Commit
tee. The committee representing
nd, except for the fact that
many of its members were stu
dents, had no connection with
the University.
But the Publications Union
Board did not get out so easy.
The merchants discovered that
the P. U. Board had made a loan
to the Co-Op of $3,500 from their
surplus, which was built up
through sale of advertising
space in the student publica
tions. The merchants threatened the
publications with a 100 per cent
advertising boycott as a result.
They claimed that the money
they paid for advertising in the
publications was going into their
competitor's pockets.
The Chapel Hill Merchants'
Association advocated a hands
off policy and the matter was
dropped as far as the merchants
were concerned.
At present the situation is
tense, to say the least.
The State, through the Uni
versity Consolidated Service
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New Venture
When the University was
first begun it was not a power
as it is today, but a new ven
ture, looked upon by many as an
unwanted step-child of the state.
Its faculty and students were
dependent solely on the mer
chants of , the village for their
entire supplies. Inhere was no
central heating system, no elec
tric lights. Everything except
higher learning had to be ob
tained from local merchants.
Co-Dependent
The village came into exist
ence because of the University.
It was dependent on the Univer
sity, and the University on it.
Back when Dr. Winston was
president there was less than
300 students, faculty members,
assistants and all, totaled 20, the
State appropriation $20,000.
Full professors were paid $2,-
000 per year. Pay checks were
sent out every three months,
and Dr. Eubanks sent out his
bills every three months.
Increases
But as the years passed the
payroll gradually increased un
til now it reaches into the hun
dreds of thousands per year
and student expenditure also
creased.
And as the University in
creased, its services increased.
The Book-Exchange began pri
marily as a place to provide ade
quate books and school supplies
for the students. The Univer
sity established a lighting and
heating plant for its buildings
and offered the service of this
plant to the townspeople. There !
was no laundry. The University j
built one. Students wanted dor
mitory stores. They were pro
vided. Branching Out .
It was the branching out of
the so call Book-Ex into various
other fields of mercantile busi
ness which was the cause of the
first unrest among the Chapel
Hill merchants.
This is not a private coopera
tive institution such as the
Carolina Cooperative Associa
tion, under which the cleaners
operated and the Co-op store
still runs, but a business enter
prise set up by the State upon
State property, exempt from
taxation, with a definite pur
pose of making a profit. Nor
does the profit come to the Uni
versity, except in an indirect
means. It goes to the State.
That's how Franklin street looks
at the matter.
Branch Store
When the -Book-Ex set up a
branch store on Franklin street,
called the University Student
Supply Service, the animosity
between the merchants and the
University, which had been con
tinually growing, reached a cli
max. It was then that a group of
merchants attempted through
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minate the sale of clothing and I
drug sundries, toothpaste, shav- I
ing cream, razors, etc. from its
stores ; 2. Discontinue the Stu- !
dent Supply store which was a j
town branch of the Book-Ex : I
and 3. Make a careful study of
the desirability from all points
of view of the dormitory stores.
Signed
The agreement was signed by
President Graham and Charles
T. Woollen, business manager,
on the university side, ana by
J. M. Pritchard, Grady Prit
chard, and J. L. Sutton, for the
merchants of Chapel Hill.
The reign of peace was short
lived. In the fall of '33 the co
operative dry cleaning and press
ing business was established. A
year later this enterprise
branched out with a clothing
store.
Private Trust
In this the administration had
no part. They could cieany
point out that the Carolina Co
operative Association was a pri
vate cooperative business trust,
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