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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE PUBLICATION UNION BOARD
,1C1A OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
Published semi-weekly during the summer quarter
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Bob Hoke
Chaszjb Nelson
Editorial Staff: Walter Damtoft, Marion Gurney, Tiny Hutton, Paul
Komisaruk, Jack Dube, Henry Moll, Hobart McKeever, Tom Hammond.
News Editors: Westy Fenhagen, Billy Webb, Walter Klein.
News Staff: Charles Easter, John Temple, Frank Ross, Margaret John
son Sara Yokeley, Phyllis Yates, John Johnson, Suzanne Feld, Betty
Foulk, Leah Richter, Ida Mae Pettigrew, Sara Niven, Margaret Morri
son, Ann Turner.
Photographer: BobWeis. h'v" i-
Cartoonist : Bill Seeman.
BUSINESS Staff: Sybil Sholar, Elizabeth Lindsay, Jack Watters, Mary
Carr, Octavia Muller.
The South Gets Together
News story on page 1
DR. FRANK P. Graham and the University once again take the
lead in the decadent South.
This time an attempt is being made to raise the esprite de corps
of the South nfwartime. The South's first "Win-the-War" mass
meeting will be held in Raleigh's tremendous municipal auditor
ium Tuesday night organized in the past ten days by Graham
and Josephus Daniels, former ambassador to Mexico.
Over 10,000 personal invitations have been mailed to South
ern leaders in every field for the convocation to "rally the South
to closer unity, higher morale, and greater sacrifice in meeting
the war effort." Officials state that the response and anticipated
attendance to the meeting is "miraculous" despite wartime trans
portation diflSculties. From Texas to Virginia, important per
sonages have already started out for Raleigh.
Maybe it was popped too suddenly to be eff ectivej and draw at
tention, but things happen fast these days and such a meeting
should have been convened months ago. It could be, that the is
sues are too vague for the more practical minded of us Southern,
folks to pay much attention, but the vague issues are merely
starting guns for the opening of discussion on real, everyday
problems.
Let it not be said it was planned in haste the cause of failure
of so many other worthy ventures for the idea has been brew
ing in the minds of Southern leaders for several years ; it took
Dr. Graham and Mr. Daniels to put it into action at the pro
pitious moment.
For this is the propitious moment. This is the moment when
things are looking the blackest for the Allied Nations and the
cause of democracy. Germany is but a step from the Caucasian
oil fields and only temporarily stalled in its march to the Suez
canal. Japan has the Far East tied up in its iron fist and seems to
be sharpening its sword for a back-stab at Russia. Rationing is
beginning to be really felt here at home; our production isn't
what it should be ; the war effort seems muddled. So is the South.
To bring order, to mold unity in our section is the aim of the
mass convocation. The South has strength, power and resources
but is tied up with factions tugging at opposite directions, each
with selfish intent.
Out of the meeting will come "People's committees" to get down
to immediate and concerted action towards the goals. The meet
ing will be the ripple that will turn out to be a wave sweeping
into every corner of the South and into every field of endeavor.
More mass meetings will be held, this one will be historic.
Example of the gradual enlightenment of the South is that
negroes. have been invited and not only will be tolerated by the
conference but will be sincerely welcomed.
It is a rare opportunity for the student body of the University
to have such a meeting so near at hand that everyone will have
a chance to attend. For once the whole South will talk together -in
one body, and this remarkable feat is being aided by this Uni
versity and its president.
"Fourth Quarter" Campaign Balked
News story on page 1 .
Alter a splurging announcement of tremendous plans for the
summer, the CPU and IRC today announce an abandonment of
plans on charges of "insufficient student support."
It is discouraging to The Tar Heel as it must be to adminis
trative leaders such as Deans Francis F. Bradshaw and Roland
B. Parker who, like us, have sought to broaden the extracurricula
activities of the summer session to broaden them so as to make
this a "fourth quarter," a continuation of the regular session.
This was thought necessary by everyone concerned in view of
the accelerated tempo of the University in wartime. It has been
placed on a year-round basis and this transitional summer was
to be as near like the regular session as possible. Great strides
had been made in this direction; more and a wider range of
courses were offered so that students might do regular session
work in the summer, a special class of freshmen began their col
lege career in June, organizations such as the Student legisla
ture, Sound and Fury, The Tar Heel, are continuing their reg
ular operations on a reduced scale but the CPU and IRC have
stopped.
" Both organizations, the campus' main groups for discussion
and opinion on national and international issues, joined whole
heartedly in the new scheme at the beginning of the summer.
Both are vital at this time for a thoughtful and full considera
tion of the world scene outside Chapel Hilf. Both could stimulate
consciousness of the world situation in a university community
that has yet to wake to the existence of total war.
The CPU announced a tentative slate of nationally famous
speakers early in the session as well as plans for discussion
groups. The IRC carried their action even farther and held a
mass reception and disclosed plans for extensive bull sessions
and guest speakers. Because only 50 students showed up and
200 were expected the IRC now wipes out its plans and claims
"insufficient student support." So does the CPU, although with
no experiment to show as an example.
We doubt that 200 students would have come to such a recep
tion during the regular session when there are 4,000 students on
campus. With half that number here this summer, 50 seems like
a pretty good crowd. Other evidence that the student body is in
terested in the more serious and contemporary side of life was the
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JBditT
business Mentger
Outside Chapel Hill
Analysis of World News
Contrary to the agreement of CIO
and AF of L leaders, there have been
and are still continuing at this writ
ing 43 strikes and shut-downs in
volving 1,200 men working on vital
war industries. The union leaders
who supposedly represent their or
ganizations evidently do not or can
not control this condition according
to the well-known news commenta
tor, H. V. Kaltenborn. President
Roosevelt who has so far avoided this
issue may be forced by these circum
stances to face it in the very near
future.
O
In the past week Germany has
presented a renewed offensive that
is giving the Russians more trouble
than they have experienced since the
war on that front began. With the
Caucasus oil fields as their main
objective the German army has been
steadily pushing the Russians back
toward Voronezh. The Russians
have finally admitted the loss of
Staryioskor and at the present mo
ment the fighting is concentrated on
opposite sides of the Don River,
sixty-five miles west of Voronezh.
O
A full-dress debate on shipping
losses began yesterday in Parlia
ment. According to the spokesman
the shipping losses constitute the
greatest danger to Allied victory at
this time since ships are being sunk
faster than they are being built.
One of the important points to be
discussed is the advisability of pub
lishing shipping losses to relieve the
tenseness of uncertainty on the part
of the general public and to give the
people some idea of the real crises
involved here. There is also to be
debated the possibility of eliminat
ing black-outs in Britain's ship yards
so that work can continue all night.
Private interests that hamper the
nation's war efforts may come in for
a spanking on the floor.
O
The trial of the eight men arrested
by the FBI as saboteurs began in
Washington Tuesday under a mili
tary court appointed from among
high ranking officers of the United
States armed forces. Conducted with
the strictest military secrecy, the
trial promises to involve several
mysterious women, one of whom has
become tagged by the Washington
papers as the "woman in white."
The government will probably ask
for the death sentence under the
charges of treason (in the case of
the two men who are United States
citizens) and of espionage.
O
A newspaper that wages editor
ial war against the publication of
news is something different in the
daily events. The New York Daily
Mirror recently conducted and won
such a fight. And furthered the
cause of a free press in so doing.
A new weapon has been perfected
under the greatest possible secrecy
and with every precaution taken to
prevent information falling into the
hands of the enemy. What this
weapon is, and details as to its con
struction, were to be released from
Washington in an official communi
que at midnight Wednesday. The
tremendous crowd that even sat on the floor to hear Dr. Edwin
Mims two weeks ago.
To us 50 students showing up for an IRC reception is a pretty
good indication that its worthwhile. Don't the two organizations
consider serving and helping a group of that size of value?
Couldn't they build from that nucleus? Or is it that they have
become too haughty from playing to a packed Memorial hall and
holding conferences featuring Mrs. Roosevelt and other national
figures. ' .
We ask the two groups to reconsider and try to carry on the
high position they have made for themselves on this campus.
A-
Mirror heard of Washington's in
tention and with a fierce front-page
editorial blasted and halted what
might have been the government's
greatest blunder of this war. In
formation about the new weapon will
be withheld.
O
Gas registration began on July
9th to continue through the 10th and
11th. Owners of private automo-
biles will receive a "D" card under
the new ruling which will entitle
them to 48 coupons worth four gal
lons each or one year's supply. This
new rationing period begins July 22.
Henderson, price administrator, has
been careful to get in the good graces
of congressmen whom his stringent
rulings have heretofore offended.
The new ruling permits extra gas
for candidates for office to use on
campaign trips and for carrying
voters to the polls!
O
Good news for numbers of us lies
in the announcement that 700
civilian war prisoners who have
been interned in Shanghai are to be
exchanged by the Japanese and
American governments. The Ameri
can Red Cross has also received ten
tative permission to send supplies of
medicine and other comforts to
lighten the lot of the remaining
Americans still in Japanese hands.
O
G-man head, J. Edgar Hoover will
receive an official medal of honor
from congress for the work his or
ganization has done and is doing to
combat the underground enemy
army at work in this country. Cong
ress may establish a civilian medal
of honor corresponding to the Con
gressional Medal of Honor which can
be awarded only to men of the armed
forces.
Churches
The following churches will wel
come all visitors to their Sunday
religious services:
Methodist E. Franklin Street
Rev. J. M. Culbreth, pastor; Sun
day School, 9:45; Morning service,
11 o'clock Dr. Edwin Mims, inter
nationally known educator and lec
turer and former professor of Eng
lish will be the guest speaker.
Lutheran Services at 5 o'clock
in the student parlor of the Univer
sity Methodist church Rev. Henry
A. Schroder, Durham, pastor.
Episcopal 304 E. Franklin
Street Rev. A- S. Lawrence, pas
tor; Holy Communion, 8 o'clock;
Morning service, 11 o'clock; Prayer
and organ service, 8:30 p. m.
United Congregational Christian
Cameron Avenue Rev. W. J. Mc
Kee, pastor; Sunday School, 10
o'clock; Morning service, 11 o'clock. s
Baptist S. Columbia Street
Rev. Gaylord P. Albaugh, pastor;
Sunday School, 9:45; Morning ser
vice, 11 o'clock "Loyalty in Re
ligion." Presbyterian E. Franklin Street
Rev. Charles Jones, pastor; Sun
day School, 9:45; Morning service,
11 o'clock "Why Religion Persists."
by Pad
Congress Rambles Again
Congress, it seems, intends to in
cur the wrath of the people until it
is voted out of office. And war or
no war, the austere. body will con
tinue to play politics, drag personal
issues and personal hatreds onto the
Congressional floor.
Such was the case last week when
bulky Leon Henderson, America's
price czar, asked the Budget Bureau
for 210 million dollars to increase
his OPA staff, now at 7,300 to 90,
000. What Henderson in reality was
asking for, was a police corps to
protect the price ceiling over Ameri
ca's head. Henderson has one fear.
According to his biographers, it has
haunted him ever since he walked
into the New Deal's offices in the
early 1930's and out-shouted the late
Hugh Johnson into a hearing and
a job. Henderson's fear was infla
tion. Today Henderson, more than any
one, realizes that his price ceiling
is under the present set-up the
only protection against inflation.
And the burly Administrator was
determined to prevent that inflation
' by keeping the price ceiling clamped
down rigidly.
For that he needed his 90,000 man
police force.
No House-Wife Price-Watchers
Henderson asked for 210 million.
First, Congress cut him to 161 mil--lion,
limiting him to a 66,000 en
forcement force. Then in informal
sessions Henderson outlined his plans
to Congressional committeemen. He
needed the cash for 1943. He needed
2,736 lawyers, 1,800 specialists, 600
economists. He wanted no part of
voluntary house-wife price-watchers.
The next step took place when the
House Appropriations Committee
met. Republican John Taber of New
York elected to slash 180 million from
the total appropriation. Taber, in
other days, as Time Magazine points
out "was wont to stiffen with rage
at the idea of even a million dollar
appropriation. . . . He once roared so
loud in wrath at the New Deal that
he jarred free the clogged eardrum
of Rep. Leonard Schuetz, restoring
his hearing."
When the committee was through,
however, they left Henderson 95 mil
lion dollars. Not for long though.
The full committee then gathered
and sliced the appropriation to 75
million dollars and swore they
would make Henderson stick within
the budget with voluntary price
watchers.
Henderson fears voluntary work
IO II
by Walter Klein
Campus Politics
We dedicate this slanderous piece
of understatement to the wackiest
of Carolina institutions campus
politics.
There you are, going through life
just as a good Carolina citizen should,
when along comes a combined tor
nado, hurricane, and cyclone, with a
dash of typhoon. By the time you
have been knocked down, robbed and
beaten you know that election time
is nearing.
First thing you know you're read
ing strange items in the Daily Tar
Heel. My God, you gasp, what the
h is that picture of my roommate
doing on the front page? Why, he's
running for the highly-contested
and very responsible position of Sec
ond Vice-President in Charge of
Frustrated - Intellectuals - Who-Didn't-Make-Phi-Bete,
says a high
official of the University Party. He
tells you to watch for other UP can
didates' pictures and to vote for them
at elections.
Elections? What Elections? He
tells you that they'll be coming up
any day now in seven months, to
be exact. So you, you jerk, you set
tle down and read steadily and faith
fully all the qualifications and all the
achievements of all the candidates
as they are printed in the Tab Heel.
Smile, Brother, Smile
Then another thing happens. Sud
denly you notice people SMILING
at you. Smile, smile, smile. Every
where you turn some barefooted,
freckled-faced, bow-tied example of
dementia praecox actually smiles at
you. You laugh back at him out of
sheer impulse, but he keeps smiling.
God, it's ghastly!
As the months roll by, new and
more serious developments pop up.
The smiling monsters start saying
"Hey, how you." Hey how you, hey
how you, hey how you! That re
solves into direct and arrogant
name-calling. "Hey, Alonzo, how
you? Hey Ipecac, how you? Hey,
Balderdash, how you? Hey, Nebu
chadnezzar, how yon?
Then it comes to you like a pop
quiz. It's all a lot of election cam
paigning! This realization gives
you new self-confidence, and the next
person who smiles at you, you give
the bronx cheer the raspberry, as it
Kcmisarck
ers for obvious reasons. Priee
watching is a full-time job, requir
ing long hours, much training, and a
high degree , of organization. His
wish to steer clear of the housewife,
already burdened with other war
work, is understandable. In a sense
his staff must consist of highly
trained, skilled technicians.
Personal Animosity
When we stop and wonder why
Congress' actions went beyond the
issues at hand, and descended to a
personal animosity and hatred of
Henderson, the man, the answers are
again clear. Henderson wouldn't
play politics or else he plays them
too well for Congress.
He appointed his own men to re
sponsible posts free of political
party or stigma. He refused to con
sult Congressional leaders when he
made appointments "back home" in
their own state. Moreover, "he
keeps them waiting on the phone."
Leon Henderson spoke inChapel
Hill last spring. He met a number
of students and professors here.
There was no doubt that he was
short-tempered, arbitrary, at times
unreasonable. He impressed some as
a dictator bully, others as a bluffer.
But those of us who spoke at any
length to him came away with one
very positive feeling. The man was
totally honest. He had a complete
grasp of his tremendous position
and within limits, he knew what he
must do. If he was a dictator, then
' thank heaven at least he was going
in the right direction.
Humility behind Bravado
Beneath the bravado, the smiling
and cigar smoke he had humility.
Very earnestly he remarked as he
left the Memorial hall platform,
"When I go to bed at night, some
times after 18 hours of work, it is
with the feeling that there is more
I must do, that I have been unable
to do. When I wake up I pray to
God that I may do everything I am
possibly able to."
The indications now are that Leon
Henderson will have to accept his
shredded budget, and employ volun
tary price-officers. He will make his
force as efficient and capable as is
humanly possible under the circum
stances. And the further indications are
that Congress will continue its ride
downward. Of many Congressmen,
we can only hope that now they are
taking their last ride a joy ride to
political oblivion and that Novem
ber will tell a different story.
The . Q-T
were. He turns out to be a Kenan
professor and he in turn recom
mends you to the honor council as
an undesirable character.
Bewilderment
So it's back to bewilderment
Then it really starts. Up go the
posters. Those chartreuse, chrome,
magenta, beige and repulsive-green
colored posters. At first you have to
stop eating for a while until your
stomach settles down. The posters
make Hitler's commands sound like
pleas. VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
Vote for droops you never heard of.
Vote for ' doubtful characters, of
whom the last remembrance you
have was of being kicked out by the
dance committee as "unduly in
ebriated." Vote for boys whose en
tire English vocabulary consists of
the words, "It gives me great pleas
ure to be here on this most glo-o-orious
occasion." Vote for guys who
never knew what a "B" looked like
on a grade report. Vote for alleged
students whose only reform is to re
peal the law of gravity.
Comes election day. Brother, ifs
h . . After having finally resolved
not to vote out of cold disregard for
who gets into office, you are bom
barded with politicians, posters and
back-patting more4 than ever. So
you hang your head, act nonchalant,
and fill out a ballot To be fair about
it, you put an X in the left. box first,
then an X in the right box, then left,
then right, until your ballot looks
like a checkerboard. You forget
yrhom. you voted for the minute you
leave. You say "Thank the Lord"
and buy a beer.
The next day you find out who
won. UP landslide, they say. My,
my. The new student body president
trampled all over his nearest op
ponent by a huge three-vote margin.
Holy smoke. Even Mrs. Roosevelt
got a vote here and there. Happy
that the dirty old elections are all
over, you go to class. Your friends
mutter "stuffed ballots" and ignore
you with grimaces. The posters
come down. The numbness in your
hand after months of pumping leaves
you. You are a man again. You are
happy.
But not for long. Two days later
those damned politicians start cam
paigning for next year's elections.