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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1942 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE NOETH CAEOLINA daily except Mondays, ks- Published Elimination Deribds and tie Than giving, Christmas and Spring: holi days. Entered as second class matter at the poet office at Chapel Hill, N. C, trader act of March 2, 1879. 1941 Member 1942 Associated CoUefyrte Press National Advertising Service, Joe. CeBei Publishers Rjrpreicmtath A0 Madison Ave New York. N. Y. CiKtf Bovto Lot (Win rt a rnai m m Subscription Bates 1 1.50 One Quarter $3.00 One Yeai AZZ signed articles and columns art opinions of tho writers themselves, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Daily Tas Hm. For This Issue: News: BOB HOKE Sports: BILL WOESTENDIEK CAEOLINA PUBLICATIONS UNION OF THE OZYILLC CAM2TZXL Sylyak XLrrat . . UNIVERSITY OF Editor William Schwaetz Hjenbt Zattouk Buckt Haewaed UaruiffiiLff Editor -Business Manager -Acting Circulation Manager Associate Editor Editorial Boaed: Mac Norwood, Henry MolL Columnists: Marion Lrppincott, Walter Damtoft, Harley Moore, Elsie Lyon, Brad MeCuen, Tom Hammond. News Editors: Bob Hoke, Paul Komisarnk, Hayden Carruth. Assistant News: A. D. Currie, Walter Klein, Westy Fenhagen, Bob Levin. Reporters: Jimmy Wallace, Billy Webb, Larry Dale, Charles Kessler, Burke Shipley, Elton Edwards, Gene Smith, Morton Cantor, Nancy Smith, J ule Phoenix, Janice FeitelbergJ J im Loeb, Lou Alice Taylor. Photographes: Hugh Morton. Assistant Photogeaphees: Tyler Nourse, Bill Taylor. S poets Editor: Harry HoDingsworth. Night S poets Editoes: Earle Hellen, Mark Garner, Bill Woestendiek. S POETS Eepoetees: Ben Snyder, Stud Gleicher, Jean Beeks. Advertising Managers: Jack Dube, Bill Stanback, Ditzi Buiee. Durham Bepbesentatiyes: Marvin Bosen, Bob Bettxnan. Local Adyeetising Staff: Jimmy N orris, Buddy Cummings, Richard Wiseberg, Charlie Weill, Betty Booker, Bill Collie, Jack Warner, Stan Legum, Dick Kerner. Office Staff: Bob Crews, Eleanor Soule, Jeannie Hermann, Bob Covington. Typist: Ardis Kipp. Circulation Staff: Larry Goldrich, Bachel Dalton. Dailv M T Opinions ar it Columns Letters Features NEW DIRECTOR ... Graham Memorial has been adopted by- its third daddy of this school year, and the latest one is a logical successor to carry on the able" guidance of his predecessors. There is little reason to feel that Graham Memorial activities will suffer from lack of va riety. Henry Moll, its new head, has proved dur ing the year that he has an imaginative and original mind. Witness the features appearing in the Carolina Magazine for the past seven months. Moll, however, has a noble record to shoot at as Bill Cochrane, retiring director, and Fish Wor PYf J??s predecessor, directed all their efforts toW3r4 h?fiWf? QT$ham Memorial a center of seryiee and entertainment. fff met with lijsual success, To Siii Ccthrane, a voce of gratitude and ap preciation is due for his able part in guiding' Graham Memorial activities. As he leaves to fol low Fish Worley into the armed services, we thank hini and wish him Godspeed in his new undertaking. We welcome Moll uuthe knowledge that he will maintain the good record. BUY DEFENSE BONDS LET ALL KEEP FAITH... (Reprinted from the Commercial Appeal, Memphis, -Tenn-, February 28 -1942) "To The Commercial Appeal: "My only son was born while I was in France during the first World War. Today he is a mem ber of the United States Marine Corps. He sailed from California the first of January, , and we have heard nothing from him since. We know he is somewhere in the Pacific. "The President says we do not have enough ships to send supplies to our troops, and that we must build ships in a hurry. Even as he spoke several hundred shipbuilders refused to work on Washington's Birthday because they were not paid double time. "How can fathers and mothers of boys who are in the danger zone and who are being called to sacrifice their lives feel any 'surge of. unity when the President and the Congress permit a bunch of shipbuilders and munitions workers to quit when they get good and ready? "Do our boys at the front get 'overtime' and 'double time in the fox holes of the Philippines? Do our sons who are giving their lives to protect the jobs of these and others like them quit on holidays? Like hell they do! "One of my friends, who is a good mechanic, with a family to support, went to get a job in a munitions plant. Every day we hear on the ra dio and read in the newspapers that such men are needed to turn out munitions for our sol diers, sailors and marines But this man was re fused a job until he could get a union card. He could not get a union card because he did not have enough money to buy one. "Is it the idea of our Government that it is more important to preserve labor unions than it is to preserve the American Union? Why can't a freeborn American citizen get a job in a plant where the Government needs workers without having to pay tribute to a high-powered labor leader? "If our sons are to be drafted to give their lives for their country, why should not Labor and Capital be drafted to supply them with mu nitions of war? Why should Congress, which has the power to make laws, be so tender of the re gard for laborers and management who work and prosper in safety while having an utter dis regard for the lives of the boys at the front? ' "We don't like it, and we don't mind saying so right out loud. Maybe it is time we were electing some senators and congressmen who will crack down and compel Capital and Labor to get into this war. And, come to think of it,-this is election year, and we might as well get busy while we have time and opportunity. "John C. Sheffield.' OFF HAND. By Tom Hammond THE 40-HOUR WEEK "Why should our boys at the front fight and die 168 hours a week when workers at home are holding up the war by refusing to work more than 40 hours a week ?" is typical of the kind of statements that were being shouted this week as the question of the 40-hour week became a na tional issue. 1 : - -Citizens in Oklahoma pledged that they would not vote for the re-election of any US Senator or Congressman who does not vote to abolish the limitations of the 40-hour week labor. Let ters and telegrams poured into Washington. Con gressman Howard W. Smith of Virginia, long a Jabor-hater, introduced a bill to wipe out all wagezhQur agreements and abolish overtime pay ment?, ! ... Backers oi tnis newest anti-labor campaign tried to create the impression that there is a Federal law prohibiting anyone from working more than 40 hours a week. Actually, the Wages and Hours Law places no limit on the number of hours that may be worked. It merely says that workers must be paid V2 times the regular rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 per week. Although anti-labor charges would lead you to . believe otherwise, defense workers right now are working more than 40 hours. Employees in war industries are averaging 48-50 hours a week, with some of them, such as makers of machine tools, working as much as 55 hours a week. - It is quite probable that US production would lose rather than gain if working hours were in creased. Numerous experiments in Various in dustries have shown that increasing hours much beyond 40 hours a week tends to reduce hourly output and even weekly output. In British muni tions factories during World War I it was found that a reduction in hotirs resulted in greater to tal production. Thus the questftm is essentially not one of hours at all, but whether or not workers should get extra pay for overtime work. The slogan "40 hour week" attempts to disguise as a campaign for more production what is really a campaign for lower" wages. Labor itself took a voluntary cut in wages this week when the C. I. O. and A. F.'L. both offered to drop premium pay rates for work performed on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. 'As to what should b'e done in regard to time and a half pay for hours over 40 we might take the opinion of W. P. B. head Donald Nelson: "The overtime pay which goes with the 40-hour week . . . probably has a good deal of value as an incentive to labor to put in the extra hours which are so necessary at this time. . i . The extra mon ey earned has done much to counterbalance the increase in living costs.' across the desk . . . Best news of the week in publica tions comes from the Yackety Yack. Editor Charlie Tillett predicts the annual will be out on time this year. (Tsk! We had glorious visions of four desks on the platform at Com mencement one for the sheepskins, one for the Bibles, one for the Yack, and one for "Enlist Here's.") Expected by the middle of May, the annual will feature color photog raphy, snappy caption lines, excel lent campus life photos, exceptional ly good layout, and the Kay Kyser judged beauty section. Truman Hobbs and room-mate va cated the Presidential Suite in Steele for the DKE House. We sincerely hope that Candidate Bert Bennett isn't superstitious, but Hobart Mc Keever now resides in the Presiden tial apartments. O The campus "Hatch Act" will prove a boon to thrifty politicians. The , campus finds it the answer to a pray er as poster-sore eyes lift to the first signs of spring. Ah ! Spring at Car olina, the birds, the bees, the butter-fjffi&r-and posters. We have read with avid eyes the story of OSCD's reorganization. Mo mentarily we have expected trenches to appear around the Old Well, air raid cellars to be opened for student use, sand brockets in every room, and air-raid wardens at every corner; ' Surprise was expressed that no hoses appeared in handy places, no black outs had improved the Arboretum, no bomb-proof window shades had been stocked, or curtailment of sugar asked. - Yet OSCD promises that Chapel Hill will be READY when the zero " hour comes. '"".'. "7. !i . A complete list of all politicians who call lower quad dorms and ask for themselves on the phone will be given in this column. Such degra dory practices have no place in the solid campaigning that the Emer gency Committee promises the voters this spring. The campus horoscope has it that an explosion tart be expected from the Mag office early this week. The revolution, which is being supported by both the staff and the Editor has three distinct possibilities: (1) the abolition of the Mag; (2) a sit-down strike on a literary magazine; (3) the birth of- a new campus Mag. Grail Commends Winston, Volunteers for All-Out Ball WBDDY DSIVERS 'WHO flX AROUND TOWN, WIU. BE FLYING- fOR KP BTHEY DO Hot SLOW DOWN letters to... ft President Roosevelt, Nelson, Labor Secretary Perkins, General William Knudsen, Robert Pat terson of the War Department, Ralph Bard of the Navy Department and Admiral Land of the Maritime Commission have all spoken against dropping the 40-hour week. Their testimony also pointed out that defense strikes since Pearl Har bor have been microscopic; that overtime rates have not stopped production, although shortages , of material have. - Then why all the noise about labor and the 40-hour week during the last few days? The President hinted that a "sixth column" promot ed it to cause dissension. Senator Maybank told that the National Association of Manufacturers, had spread exaggerated figures about strikes through the Associated Press. Someone said the campaign had been organized by the US Cham ber of Commerce. Elmer Davis attributed it to citizens who hate Roosevelt more than they hate Hitler. Whoever started the latest anti-labor campaign, it seems that this time the charges have been proved unjust. To The Editor: There is one point on which the two warring groups agree. It is the prop osition that the crucial fight in which our generation is involved is only in its traditional form a war among nations; in reality, basically antago nistic ideologies are fighting each other, along with old political issues. Modern theology, philosophy, ethics, political science, and literature are at tempting, with more or less success, to squeeze the underlying ideologies into a blueprint of simple sentences. Fascists do it by hammering into the minds o fsmall and grown alike riming slogans which appeal to men's joy in violence, and making them adore new Bibles, such as MEIN KAMPF. The other side has been making the engagingly provocative attempt to involve human and social emotions, and the critical acumen of people, to make them feel and under stand what we are fighting for. In deed, our task of. public enlighten ment is much more difficult. We don't conceal that everyone has to face simultaneously gigantic person al and social issues. Students of this campus have been eager to form their minds by weigh ing critically the what and the why of great political issues. The self governing associations of students supported "creative understanding" by' inviting men of various political colors to convey the great drama of our present struggle. Tuesday night Jan Masaryk, Vice Premier and Minister of Foreign Af fairs of Czechoslovakia, is going to address this community. He has been for 'many years one of the outstand ing leaders of the Czechoslovakian nation, helping to make it an island of. Western civilization. His politi cal vision, intellectual courage, and great diplomatic experience warrant the assumption that he will throw considerable light on the ever widen ing stream of our present struggle for freedom. I am sure that he will find on this campus the attention which he deserves. Sincerely, Ervin Hexner among the damned . . with Damtoft (To the writers of "Dear Mom" we extend whole-hearted apologies for the following.) DEAR MUSS (A letter from the Russian ront written by Hitler to Mussolini.) Dear Muss: The weather today was cloudy and dank. Your steamer arrived but was missing a tank. , Your record gives a fit, . " To all the boys in my ranks. How the hiss you. And Muss : The food is decayed, I don't sleep very well, As I've a cold in my head. And oh how I wish they'd make my men go ahead. How they muff it. r If you should run into That gen'ral, you know who; Give him some lead, and tell the folks, "T. B." Dear Muss: That's all for tonight. My tank, it just crashed. Tomorrow's a big day, ? And my army's so hashed. I hate it here, . : J And I'm layin' for you, Dear Muss. (Signed) Adolph Headline in a large metropolitan newspaper: "Union to Try Girl for Working Too Hard." This gave us all kinds of wonder ful ideas for a union of students at UNC. Work would be strictly lim ited to five hours a day with time and a half holidays for every hour overtime. Any student who tried to work too much and thereby cause the teacher's grade scale to rise would be tried and dismissed from the University. We can hear the de cision coming down now. "Mr. Brown. You translated seven pages when you were only supposed to . translate five. That is all." guest columnist . (Editor' 8 note: Phil Carden, ace news editor of last year, visited the campus yesterday. He was asked to ivrite a guest column. He did. Then we did. We sent it to ihe printshop as filler. Here is the filler.) We have so much to say in this little bittie first paragraph that we "can't figure out how in the world we can possibly squeeze it down to the' proper size. Well we do declare ! We ran out of space ! But it still serves its purpose. It starts off the column without men tioning thr.t we are a guest columnist. We always hated guest columns that spent the first coupla paragraphs ex plaining that it was a guest column. When Harward says to us a minute or two after we came on the campus this afternoon: "I've got nineteen inches that I must do something with," we laughed. Then we realized he was serious and we sat down to the trusty Royal. With our old loyalty to the DTH burning in our heart, we wrote: "A lot of water has passed under the dam since we left good old Chapel Hill way back yonder last year " We stopped. - . . " . , O The students at Chapel Hill aren't interested in water, we said to our- To the Student Body, For several months now the Car olina campus has been criticized al most daily for its apathy toward the war, rarely commended .for any co operation. The response of the stu dent body last Friday night at the Ail-Out Ball and the sacrifice and work of students who made the dance possible calls for at least one com mendation. Pat Winston, leader in the Office of Student Civilian Defense, should be given full credit for an excellent job of putting on the dance. A f ew of the mechanical details were taken care of by the Grail. But it was Pat who originally conceived the idea . of a dance to stimulate campus co operation in the total war effort and ,who stuck with his plans for two months finally to make the affair a success. Thanks of the campus should go also to the bands and the doormen who volunteered their services for no pay. Both Johnny Satterfield and Hurst Hatch turned down paying engagements to play for the campus and the war effort. Student doormen, who had always been paid previously, performed their four-hour service without accepting money. The response of the student body, of course, ould have been greater. But the figure of 529 paid admissions guarantees that at least that number of students have been started on sav ing toward a defense bond. If Saturday night's response was typical of Carolina and we believe that it is then it is our conviction that this student body is not and will not be insensible to its obligation in the war effort. Sincerely, The Order of the Grail selves. We should give them a good pep talk about the efficacy of alcohol in driving away the war willies, and how they were getting perfect train ing for the cold, cruel world. . With this thought burning in our heart, we wrote: "A lot of gin has; passed down . . ." But the dean's, office wouldn't like that, we repri manded ourself . We ripped that sheet out of the typewriter, We should comment on some campus is sue. After all, hadn't we always maintained that the Tar Heel should be a campus newspaper? O With this thought burning in our mind, we wrote: "A lot of mud' has been thrown since . . ." we stopped . again. We didn't know anything about the campus. We got up and went into the news office. Work had stopped. There was a pretty coed in there. ... With this thought burning in our mind, we dashed back to the type writer and wrote: "A lot of mush has been slushed since this4 column began, this stuff must stop. There are more important things than Har vard's nineteen inches. Six inches ns plenty anyhow. See you at Sloppy Joe's, corner Yo-Yo and Fith, in Tokyo." Send the DAILY TAR HEEL home ATTENTION C.V.T.C. We Can Supply You With SHEENO or Regular Khaki Trousers White Shirts Black Ties Belts & Shoes For Drill Wear HERMAN'S DEPT. 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