AGE TWO
The Tar Heel
TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1942
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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE PUBLICATION UNION BOARD
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
Published semi-weekly during the summer, quarter
except during holidays and examination periods
Bob Hoke
Chaslzs Nelson
Editorial Staff: Louis Harris, Bill Shuford, Marie Waiters, Tiny Hutton,
Walter Damtoft.
News Editors: Westy Fenhagen, Billy Webb.
NEWS Staff: John Temple, Quint Furr, Frank Ross, Paul Komisaruk, Ed
Faulkner, Nancy Smith, Janice Feitelberg, Mark Garner, Tyler Nourse,
Bill Cochrane.
Assistant Advertising Managers: Ardis Kipp, David Reid, Jack Watters,
Jack Dube.
Mr. Cochrane Leaves for the Navy
The Graham Memorial student union stopped a moment yes
terday from its entertaining of the student body to bid farewell
to the second Director within a year to go directly into the na
tion's armed services.
Bill Cochrane left yesterday to fight for his country. He
will go into training at Notre Dame and Northwestern univer
sity and emerge an Ensign in the United States Navy.
Last December, RICHARD "Fish" Worley resigned his Direc
torship of the union upon being called into the Army Air Corps.
Cochrane was appointed to succeed him and now six months
later follows "square-dancer" Worley into the same field but
in a different service.
Tempetous, hardheaded, Bill Cochrane has had a continual
fight on his hands, that of maintaining the hard-fought for com
plete independence of the Union. Mr. Cochrane won his skir
mishes. There are other signs of Mr. Cochrane's regime. The Art
shop, providing non-profit art work for all campus agencies, was
his creation. The Saturday night dances, those "Java Jump,"
"Toenail tickle," "Tokyo Trot" affairs won their place in cam
pus popularity.
Mr. Cochrane's work at the Union was only on a part-time
basis for he still had to serve with the Institute of Government
across the street. Yet the part-time jobs at both places were done
better than many men have done on a full-time basis. .
Quiet, talented Henry Moll moves in behind Mr. Cochrane.
Mr. Moll has an enviable record, his main feat being that of put
ting out a Carolina Mag that was selected among the four best in
the nation. Another staunch defender of the independence of the
Graham Memorial student union, Mr. Moll has a job on his
hands.
Victory, But Not Hate
There's khaki on the campus these summer days which makes
this summer differ from the usual summer session at Carolina.
It's almost easy to forget that the world is at war . . . easy until
you turn your dial on the radio or sit through the newsreels or,
by some oversight, read the daily paper. "The damn Japs" and
"the filthy Nazis" are lampooned and cursed in all of 'em. And
the shriek goes on : "Down with Wagner he wrote the German
battle music" and "The Japanese are depraved little yellow men
with arsenic in their veins instead of blood."
Well that just ain't true.
There's an important job ahead for college people, whose aver
age I. Q. is supposed to exceed the accepted 12 years the job of
keeping a perspective. A lot of the boys on campus now will be
in this war fighting before very long. But we wonder if they need
hate to fight with?
We're a hard-headed generation maybe but we're fighting for
ideals just the same. Our ideals don't include forming for our
selves out of war propaganda the same sort of violent bitter little
minds that are supposed to belong exclusively to the people that
are now our enemies. Fight them we must. Hate them no.
There will be a peace to be made someday. It it's made in hate,
in revenge, the guys that are twenty now will find themselves
reserve officers of forty fighting in another chapter of this same
mess.
So let's listen to Wagner, if, we happen to like him, and read
Japanese poetry than which, occasionally, there is none lovelier.
And of course let's lick hell out of the damn Nazis and the
dirty Japs.
Big Town
By Bob Musel
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, June 15 (UP)
Those amazing Rockefellers, having
proved they could make money in
the night club business, are now
busily engaged in changing the en
tertainment tastes of the night club
public. Broadway isn't too sure
they won't succeed.
There was a time when Broadway
was willing to bet the oil clan, soft
ened by the comparative gentility
of international finance, would re
treat licking their wounds from the
wild free-for-all competition for the
night club dollar.
Now it knows better. For the
Rockefellers, by violating all the
rules of that strange business, have
built two of the most consistently
profitable night club properties in
town the Rainbow Room and the
Rainbow Grill.
John Roy, who manages - both of
these skytop rooms on the 65th floor
of Radio City, is one of the Rocke
feller innovations. A former col
lege professor he knew none of the
devious angles of conducting a night
club. Thus he naively decided that
good food, entertainment and pleas
ant management would do the trick.
It did.
It is through Roy that the Rocke
fellers are trying to lift night club
entertainment a few notches. At the
moment they are concentrating on
the dance and artists usually seen
ar Heel
Editor
.Business Manager
Medley
only on the concert stage or in
other comparable media appear reg
ularly in the Rainbow Room.
"There was some skepticism at
first," said the scholarly Roy, "be
cause people just couldn't seem to
get used to the idea of so distin
guished a dancer as, say Charles
Weidman in a night club.
"But we figured, why not? Just
because it hadn't been done was no
reason it would not succeed. So we
inaugurated a policy of having a
fine dance act in every new show
and it's done so well other clubs
are beginning to adopt the idea
themselves.
"Right now we have Jack Cole
and his Dancers, one of the finest
groups in the country. Jack got his
start in the Room some years ago
in a conventional ballroom team. I
helped persuade him to exploit his
great talents and the result has
been most gratifying. ,
"Ruth Page, the international
ballerina, was another innovation
and Miriam Winslow and Foster
Fitz-Simons also made their night
club debuts here. We teamed Mona
Montes of the Metropolitan Opera
ballet and Jose Fernandez of the
American ballet, among others."
Roy, who has developed an un
usual eye for entertainment ability
despite his academic background,
admits he is toying with another
semi-classical idea.. But what it is
he won't say.
And so, liolotoT
had left Washing
ton. A second
front would be
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forthcoming, when
JillE A American
troops
reached massive numbers, when
ships were built to transport them
to the shores of France and Norway.
The pledge for final and ultimate
victory, no false peaces, was made.
The assurance of a union of "alllike-minded
nations" after the war
was made by the government of His
Majesty and the Soviet Union.
Policing, no aggrandizement and no
interference with the internal af
fairs of other states, plus a vow to
work as the United Nations and not
as individual .nations all made a
glowing picture from London, Mos
cow, and Washington last week. The
United States had declared war on
three Balkan enemies of Russia, and
the Coral Sea battle was a major vic
' tory.
Yet, amidst the gloating victories
and the altruistic, liberal pledges
for a peaceful, moderate order in the
post-war world, capitals of the world
still had the power-game ringing in
their ears.
One could not help but remember
the serene years in 1936, when
Americans and British and French
turned heads away at the struggle
against the fascists in Spain, the plea
from a foreboding Russian Red gov
ernment that here was the chance to
stem the aggressor tide. The deaf
ear of President Roosevelt and ap
peasers in the two poles of European
power-democracy. One remembered
the little quibbles like the invasion
of the Rhineland and the beginnings
of the rumble of war on a futile
western front.
Then, the shocking memory of
Molotov, the same diplomat who left
Washington on June 4, returning
from Berlin in summer, 1939, with
the terse announcement that indefi
nite collaboration with Hitler had
been sown between the Soviet Union
and Nazi Germany. And the crash
of a summer past, when the most
heroic resistance in modern history
stemmed the hitherto unhalted
march of the Nazis into the Ukraine
and the rich Caucasus oil fields.
Then, the pledges of full lend-lease
aid, then full war aid, and finally
the assurance of a second-front on
the continent.
It all came back with a sudden
sordidness, the weirdness of a catas
trophic nightmare that had pitched
youth throughout the world into the
sea of destruction. Each move of
every nation seemed to turn all it
touched to blood. The war became
sacred.
The question, why would Russia
sign such a liberal pledge seemed
based on two assumptions: 1. could
the Soviet union afford to sacrifice
the opening of a second front to bar
gain for the Baltic states; and 2.
could the United States and Britain
enter a collaboration with commun
ist Russia unless liberal peace 'aims
were adopted?
For Russia,
the
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Edward Knox Powe, of the Dur
ham and the SAE Powes, has step
ped far ahead of all contestants in
the "Is My Face Dubonnet" contest,
sponsored by this column. E. K.
forgot that Steele had been turned
over to the co-eds for the summer,
and being in a hurry at the time,
made a mad dash for the little room
in the corner of the first floor. He
was saved from extreme embarrass
ment by the presence of the maid and
several of the occupants.
Classified Adv't Dep't Johnny
Miller, varsity end, smooth dancer,
and lover par excellence, wishes to
announce to all women students that
he is available for evening engage
ments. Those interested are asked
to call 8011. References are fur
nished upon request.
Character of the Week Unani
mous choice for the man of the hour
seems to be Wilton Damon, Dr. Cy
clops from G'boro. Damon's chief
ambition at present is to get a B.S.
in the Commerce school before Uncle
Sammy gets a W.D. in the Army,
nis pet like is a picneck at the lake
on a Sunday afternoon while his
chief dislike is a lemon.
Social Spotlight A major dis-
aster struck at the fair village on
Sunday when Pat Fuller stepped off
the bus from Florida. Several fresh
men choked to death while gasping
for breath and sixteen onlookers
were crushed in the mad rush.
The fair Chi O's are all a twitter
over the talk that their Randy Jen
nings and the Delta Psi's Jesse Nalle
are planning on middle aisling it
sometime in the not too distant
future.
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by Louis Harris
treaty halts Britain from buying off
or interfering with the internal af
fairs of small nations on the contin
ent. It facilitates the commerce of
Britain with the" vast reconstruction
that Russian industry will have to
undergo after the war. It binds the
Soviet to an assurance of aid from
Britain and the United States in
Europe, but does not commit her in
the Far East against Japan. Thus,
it allows Russia full hand and as
sistance in her battles around Khar
kov without the fear of a double
front war. In toto, it gives Russia an
. assurance of a powerful combination
of allies for actual military service,
besides pledges for equal seating
around the peace table. In return for
all these, it is little wonder that
Russia was willing to agree to a
liberal peace.
For Britain, the benefits are just
as sound. She has already built up a
huge obligation to Russia on the
military front. Now, with the aid
of the United States, the first great
opportunity for crushing Germany
faces her. Britain won a victory
when the treaty did not call for
Soviet annexation of the Baltic states
and parts of Poland. She won a
larger victory when Russia agreed
to join the community of nations as
a peaceful neighbor, for it was here
that Churchill's largest fear has
come. The uncertainty of whether
Russia would go whole-hog with
Britain has finally been settled. The
-terms of the Atlantic Charter and
the terms of Britain were those in
the treaty. Here was assurance be
fore victory that the big battle was
against Hitler and not over the
peace-table.
For the United States, the agree
ment marked a long-coming assur
ance that we had at last lost our isor
lation and had joined as a full war
power. We had given verbal vows
that we would abide by the terms.
Tacitly implied was that the postr
war effort would be one of common
sharing by all the United Nations.
The altruism was not on America's
part, for we were just beginning to
fight in the three-year struggle and
knew that Russia and Britain would
push Germany to the limit, in re
turn for American troops and sup
plies. Considering our two-year over
played role as reluctant dragon, we
were already assured of the founda
tions of a lasting peace in Europe.
Our struggle was now to be carried
out. We have some assurance, too,
that Russia will not be the imperial
istic bear of 1939.
Although a scrap of paper and a
treaty, both of which have been made
useless mockeries during the past
decade, the treaty none-the-less
stands as an historic document. It is
significant for it makes the battle
fronts of Kharkov, Libya, the Pacific,
and Europe more clear-cut. It leaves
the job to be done, but makes it cer
tain that harmony and trust, not
doubt and mistrust will be the order,
at least until the war is ended. It also
lays the foundations for a united
peace, a far cry from the bitter
throat-slittings of France and Eng
land over the peace-table after the
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Conspicuous by their absence
Lois Boyd and Bill Shuford created
quite a furor by their respective de
partures last week. Lois was quite
demonstrative in hers, searching up
and down the street (with Steve Kar
res in tow) for male friends to kiss
goodbye. Shuford was the other ex
treme. He slipped away quietly in
the middle of the night, hating to say
farewell to the place he loved so
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Undone
by Paul
Congress went to work on Presi
dent Roosevelt's budget last week,
and the net result will bring, among
a host of other things, a resounding
whack that will echo through the
self-help offices on South Building's
second floor.
For the Congress, complaining
bitterly, because the nation's press
condemned them as the fallen great,
damned them because many of their
number had "consistently damaged
the cause of world democracy," and
hinted quite obviously that next
November," there would be some
changes made, set out to "re-establish
themselves."
First step on their road back was
to kill the CCC. Their next step was
to carve $100,000,000 out of an ap
propriation for the National Youth
Administration. The Congressional
act left NYA heads with $50,000,000
to work on for the coming year.
The attitude of Congress towards
NYA has always been belligerent.
Especially have they been resentful
to those portions of the funds that
were going to the nation's colleges.
"I got to Congress without ever
goin' to college," more than one Con
gressman bellowed many times.
With the war, they had another
argument. "Those boys should be do
ing their, duty in the army." They
were ignoring one or two vital points
when they failed to realize that men
still in colleges are forming a tre
mendous reservoir of what will re
sult in trained officer material. They
failed to realize also that army and
navy officials, vigorously promoting
their V-l's and V-5's, were in favor
of "keeping them , in college" to
further insure officer material that
is badly needed.
And above all the Congress failed
to realize that work-as-they-go boys
in the nation's colleges were invari
ably averaging the same or better
grades than the rest of their class
mates. The situation in North Carolina's
NYA office in Raleigh is still con
fused in light of the cut. No one
knows as yet just what the cut will
mean, or where it will hit. But one
thing is almost certain. The slim
little man who so adequately runs
UNC's self-help office in South Build
ing will probably get a budget cut
that may flatten the worthy NYA
balloon in a flash. And when the cut
does come, the second cut this year,
E. S. Lanier is given the dirty task
of weeding out, where no weeding
should be done.
Ironically enough, Congress' act
comes less than two weeks after
Lanier published a swatch of facts
showing what his 285 NYAers were
doing. Charges that NYAers didn't
belong in colleges were never more
adequately answered. For of the 285,
113 had made the honor roll (B -grades
or better) . Seventeen of the
113 made straight A's. Of the re
maining number who didn't make
honor roll, he showed that 125 aver
aged from C to C plus, 29 averaged
C minus, and only 18 averaged D.
Last January Lanier's budget was
last war. It leaves China still un
settled, and does not solve the numer
ous economic and political as well as
geographical problems that will have
to be surmounted. In reality it does
nothing more than assure each of
the United Nations that all will come
to the battle-front and peace table
with common bonds of a liberal, for
ward peace, not the stained hands of
a mirage of concealed treaties and
power wranglings.
Count not out the desires for
power and control of all the nations.
Yet, after the treaty with China is
sealed, the days will be hastened
when men once more can see sun
light for long, without the darkness
of dive bombers and rumbling tanks.
-"V i c t o r v
Komisaruk
cut by some $8,000. He was told to
drop 75 students from the lists to
allow for the cut. Before he took
any action students went to work
and in less than three weeks raised
the necessary money by themselves.
A student committee did a thorough
ly phenomenal and adequate job of
canvassing and fund raising. Stu
dent organizations gave until it hurt,
and then gave some more.
In the meantime a Congressional
act moved the clock back six months.
And soon Ed Lanier may be asked
to go to work on his lists again.
Congress was re-establishing it
self in the eyes of the nation.
Bing Will Be
Os-Siit Chief
AUBURN, CaL, June 15 (UP)
Bing Crosby, crooner, movie actor,
racing stable owner and amateur
golfer, will add Indian chief to his
list of titles July 4.
The Os-Sut Indian tribe plans to
confer the title of "Chief Flying
Eagle" on the diminutive crooner in
appreciation for his saving their
150-year-old-burying ground near
Auburn.
Crosby, learning that the tribe
was threatened with loss of the two
acre plot through sale by the own
ers to settle an estate, purchased it
and deeded it to the Indian tribe.
He also bought an additional acre
for the tribe, which had been mak
ing desperate efforts to raise money
to keep the graveyard in its pos
session. Crosby became interested in the
Os-Suts' troubles through the ef
forts of Harold Robinson, mission
ary of the Calvary Baptist church
of Los Angeles, and the Rev. J. J.
Hynes, paster of St. Joseph's Cath
olic church in Auburn.
They will be in charge of an all
day program and pow-wow July 4
on the Os-Sut reservation, at which
Crosby will hand the property deed
to Mrs. Martha Le May of Auburn,
who handles the tribe's business
matters.
Indians from all sections of Cali
fornia are expected to attend the
festival. Invitations also have been
sent to Indian reservations in Ne
vada. The program will include a bar
becue, Indian sports contests and
tribal dancing and songs by such
famous Indians as Princess Martha
Le May, Queen Jane Mills and Aunt
Polly Hamburger.
Several prominent motion pic
ture stars are expected to accom
pany Crosby from Hollywood.
Caboose Goes Modern,
Gets Electric Lights
INDIANAPOLIS, June 15 (UP)
Railroad caboose tradition has
been broken.
Ben H. Pryor, New York Cen
tral conductor, installed a fan atop
the car and connected it to a gen
erator which charges a battery.
Gone are the familiar kerosene
lamps. Pryor believes his is the first
electrically-lighted caboose in op
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