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PAGE TWO Tbm ffidal newipsper of the Publication Union of U Unhrerrity ot CrIniit Cl HiaTwh it fa. printed dafly. ept Monday., exsminstioM and Jtion pertod KnteSd m eeond dua matter at the port office at Chapel HID. N. C under the act of March 1. 1879. Suhecription price k 15.00 for the eoDese year. Complete Leased Wire BOBERT MORRISON WE STY FENHAGEN CARROLL POPLIN and BILL WOESTENDIEK BILL SELIG CLIFFORD HEMINGWAY iSWTANT EDITORS: Fred Jaeobeon, Ray Conner. . . JSDITOBIAij STAFF J Dick Kor-J. Dick Stern. Dorothy Marshall. Gloria Gantier. Connne TCTHHTdItORS : Jack Lackey, Roland Gidoz, Kay Conner. REPORTERS : Mary Hill Gaston. Gene Aenchbacher. Jo Pnzh, Darley Lochner, Roland . GidiB, Joan Blase, Fafi HaUey. Elaine Patton, Poeey Emerson. John. Giles, Bill Rutledge. Laa Barnes, Tody Walton, Janet Johnson, Bill Jabine. NIGHT SPORTS EDITORS t Bob Gold water, Howard Merry. - SPORTS REPORTERS: Jim Pharr, BLOy Carmichael, Jim Kltrttz. ADVERTISING MANAGER: Winky Andrews. BUSINESS STAFF: Suzanne Barclay, Natalie Selifir, Strowd Ward, Barbara Thorson, Claude Ramsay, Brantley McCoy, Billy Finch. , , ADVERTISING STAFF: Bettie Cheatham, Lois Clark, Gene Heafner, Adelaide MeLarty. Eddie Owens, Jane Peete, Nancy Waugh, Virginia Wilson, Mary Jo Cain, Ann Cobb. Bill Hales, Bobbye Jean Hardy, Barbara Lynn. Fay Maples, Roth Tompkins. FOR THIS WE STY FENHAGEN FRED JACOBSON CARROLL POPLIN STATE LEGISLATURE MUST ACT The books being stored in theYMCA'.s first floor west annex are taking up valuable space which should be used for dancing and other informal entertainment offered by the Y. The Book Exchange and the Y are packed into an inadequate and poorly constructed building. It seems that a better place could be found from which to distribute books to veterans. The root of the problem, however, lies with the state legisla ture, which has failed to appropriate funds necessary to in sure veterans a place to study under their federal subsidy. Every student should question the candidates for state legisla ture and learn their disposition toward giving veterans the edu cation they deserve. Every student should do his best to elect the right representatives and demand that they discharge North Carolina's constituted obligation to our university. Every student should use every means to persuade the people of the state to back a plan for the continuation of a first-class uni versity. R.M. HELP FIGHT CANCER If present trends prevail unchecked, seventeen million Ameri cans will die of cancer. There is one chance in eight that you will die of cancer. Fortunately, cancer is not toally uncontrollable. Although medical scientists are far from the discovery of a satisfactory weapon against the disease, three vital programs against can cer have been outlined : 1) Education, so that people can recognize the symptoms and dangers of cancer and receive medical attention in time for cure; 2) Hospitals, and more and better facilities for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer; 3) Research, and concentrated study by scientists in an ef fort to improve the methods of cancer control and perhaps to discover a miracle treatment. . By act of Congress, and proclamation of the president of the United States, this month has been designated as Cancer Con trol Month, 'and the American Cancer Society is conducting a campaign in. this community and in eyery community through out the United States to raise funds for cancer control. This campaign deserves the support of every American. It demands the attention of the citizens of Chapel Hill. R. M. i PROFESSORS FAVOR PRICE CONTROL Chapel Hill economics professors polled last week unanimous ly indicated their approval of some sort of national price con trols for the present emergency conditions. Non-partisan ex perts in economics (such as college professors) all over the na tion are urging continuation of OPA. Veterans organizations, consumers unions, and civic groups have joined in the fight, and it is well that every effort be levied on Congress for the continuation of OPA, for big business and the nation's super industries are employing every conceivable lobbying influence to kill price regulation and bring about a price spiral which will ultimately result in tremendous profits by big business and ex- treme poverty for veteran students and persons with fixed in comes. Inflation will benefit a selfish minority at the price of wreck ing our economic structure. The American economy is not yet ready for free and unrestricted selling. The fight against in flation and the continuation of OPA are causes which are be ing waged in the interests of the majority against a rich, power ful, and organized minority. R. M. Seryice of United Press Editor Managing Editor -Co-Sports Editors .Business Manager Circulation Manager ISSUE: Night Editor .Assistant Editor Night Sports Editor BTH Poll of Commerce School Reveals UNC Prof essors Favor Price Controls By Gene Aenchbacher Results of a poll conducted among the professors of eco nomics last week on the question "Do you favor the continuation of OPA without any crippling amendments?" show an over whelming approval of the prin ciple of price control during this period of readjustment in which demand exceeds supply. Dean Carroll: I favor con tinuation of OPA with amend ments directed, to cover certain problems in the administration of the law. Mr. Weaver: I believe that it is in the interest of economic welfare for the general price regulating powers of the OPA to be continued. It is evident that the changing costs of pro duction (notably of wage in creases) and the desirability of protecting legitimate market ing will necessitate the adjust ment of price ceilings from time to time. At best, price ceilings will result in some inequities. However, continued price regu lating efforts will probably mod erate the ills of inflation. , Mr. Oliver: I am in favor of continuing OPA in the same form that OPA wants it. I re gard it as a choice of the lesser of two evils. Mr. Anson: Yes, most em phatically, OPA should be con tinued with strengthening of both enforcement and adjusting divisions. Such changes would insure greater compliance with the law and should expedite the processing of any price control squeezes that might occur. Mr. Griffin: Yes, I favor continuing the OPA with empha sis on enforcement and with sup plementary action by the CPA with regards to production al location and inventory controls. Mr. Wolf : Yes. For common, ordinary, garden variety folk it is the only salvation. Consider ing the prices after World War I and those after World War II it becomes very obvious. Mr. Kottke : Emphatically yes. Much business criticism may be met by (1) requiring that OPA simplify the system of re ferral used in handling requests for price adjustments, (2) estab lishing specific standards of ex perience for key executives in each OPA unit and (3) author izing salaries calculated to at-, tract men who will measure up to such standards. Mr. Heer : Under existing con ditions some kind of price regu lation is obviously necessary. The issue is not wether OPA should be abolished but how to make it work better. The pres ent OPA administration seems to me to be too much concerned with Jceeping nominal prices down and too little concerned with whether goods will be pro duced at the prices set. Mr. Rosenberg: The OPA has curbed inflation and has kept prices from rising too high. Crippling amendments may pro vide buyers" (consumers) with the incentive to buy more goods than they need because they will expect prices to rise. Sellers will hoard goods in order to earn higher profits. Shortages thus created will result in increased black market operations and in flation. This must be avoided by continuing an effective OPA. Mr. Heath: The OPA has made mistakes. . . . Neverthe less, it should be continued, with little change in "powers, until the conditions of a stable price structure have become reason ably assured. Controls should be relaxed in any industry when ever it appears reasonably cer tain that a stable situation is possible. The OPA constitutes the only likely brake, for the present, upon runaway inflation. Mr. Mouzon: The OPA must be continued without any crip pling amendments. This action should be taken immediately; and this extension of authority should be implemented by the necessary appropriations to guarantee the effective adminis tration of price control. This latter is necessary since many of the inequities of which business men justly complain are due to the fact that the OPA has been International Students Day To Be Celebrated in Prague "We who have participated in the Congress (International Stu dent Congress in Prague, November 1945) see the development of a new and extensive international cooperation among students, and urge the utmost support and cooperation of American student organizations' Thus ends the report to the American campuses from' Prague by three members of the American delegation. The Prague Conference lastf year grew out of a pledge made by the American student delega tion at the Students Congress in Washington, D. C, in the fall of 1945. At that time they pledged that the first free Inter national Students Day be cele brated in Prague, Czechoslo vakia. "We celebrated the .first free International Students Day in Prague with the . liberated stu dents of Czechoslovakia and with students from fifty-one countries of the world. The Congress was a living tribute to the memory of the 157 students massacred at Charles . University by the Nazis on November IT, 1939," the report says. "Charles Uni versity in Prague was closed dur ing the six years of occupation, its laboratory, equipment stolen, and its textbooks destroyed. This is a pattern that was generally followed by the Nazis in Eu rope." The Congress provided an op portunity for exploring the pos sibilities and need for imme diate cooperation between the students of different countries: to re-build the devastated cam puses, to promote the exchange of students, to help cement Unit ed Nations good will and solid arity, to exchange information and ideas on University curricu lum, and to build a functioning International Student Congress to achieve these ends. The three United States dele gates, signers of the above quoted report, and representing the Intercollegiate Christian Council (YM and YW student The Ram Sees By An Old Goat "Hey, Boy," says Billy Wal ston, "there ain't many things that I can't do, but I could never survive another May Frolics!" Well, , Rameses wonders, who could? Universal comment of all IMPORTED lassies, as they crawled on their famished hands and knees to the Saturday even ing ball: "Where's the food? Do Carolina gentlemen live by li quids, and liquids alone? Give us some bread !" Frolicking Trivia An advertisement for Kool's cigarettes Friday evening was tails-clad Eddie Allen, the weav ing image of a penguin. . . . Gilda, where is Gilda? last seen Friday evening in PURPLE SATIN attire, on the arm of Kappa Sig Charlie Blackburn. ... ."If Woollen Gym were a pas tureland, and if Bunny Flowers were Little Bo Peep, Tom delegated a responsibility with out adequate means of enforce ment. Eric Johnston, retiring president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, has an swered a similar question and justified his reply in words that can be understood by all and might be heeded by your elected representatives: "It would be suicidal if price control was abolished immediately. . . . The worst thing that could happen to us would be f or.prices to spiral and for us to have a period of boom and bust." divisions), American Youth for Democracy, and the United States Student Assembly, con stituted themselves the Ameri can Preparatory Committee, and proceeded to organize nation wide student support for the forthcoming August Internation Students Congress in Prague. Soon various student, and adult organizations with student divi sions, joined the Preparatory Commission, including the Cath olic and Jewish students in the Newman clubs and the Hillel Foundations, the veterans in the American Veterans Committee, and other student groups. Of the approximately twenty five American delegates, ten will come from selected American Universities, among which the University of North Carolina is one. Another ten will come as representatives of the J national student organizations. The re maining five will represent re gional student groups, among which is the Conference of Sou thern Students. When our delegate returns from the Congress and the tour of Europe which he will be given as the guest of the European embassies, he will report to the campus and in all probability the joint action decided upon in Prague will be initiated by the Preparatory campus committee. The participation in the Cong ress by the campus will be valu able to the extent that the en tire campus cooperates in send ing the delegate and acting upon the Congress' decisions next Fall. D. K. - AND A Kearns, wandering , innocently but aimlessly about the dance floor Saturday evening, would have been her little lost sheep. George "Grand" Stenhouse's most precious possession is a tiny glow worm which lighted his path through the haziness of May Frolics by-ways. ... Per fect host Gate Richardson, with his cohort Bob McLellan, is said to have felt as blank as a genial fence post as he greeted the swarms of newcomers at the Zete Abode on Saturday last. . . . Where has Saint Nicoud been for the past three days? Swing out, Louie! . . . Los"t: Pete Bau dry's voice. "Finders are not keepers," says Pete. . . . What happened to Dixie Ward's nose? 'Tis said he'd like an answer to the above question himself. Dick Clements' date specialized in quantity as well as quality. Without Cash Cancer Fight Is Hopeless One of the biggest and most important jobs in cancer re search today is that of running down the connection between cancer and human sex hormones. Cancer researchers have known for a good many years that the sex hormones those mysterious substances poured into the blood stream by the sex glands con trol the normal growth of body tissue. They also know that these sex hormones, in some way or other, seem to influence ab normal growth of tissues. And cancer is essentially abnormal tissue growth. Cancer specialists long ago noticed the relation between sex hormones and certain kinds of cancer. They discovered that re moval of the ovaries of a woman with cancer of the prostate gland can sometimes spectacularly re duce the pain and slow up the progress of the disease. They have also learned how to slow up prostate cancer in men by neu tralizing the male sex hormones with injections of the female sex hormones. Not much is now known about the incredibly complicated chem istry of these hormones, but there is a suggestion that there are certain consistent abnormali ties in the sex hormones of peo ple who have cancer. These hor mones can be isolated and studied. One of the problems and it is a major one is to get enough of them for wide-scale study. The study of the effect of sex hormones is only one of the many problems of and ap proaches to cancer facing the Research Council of the Ameri can Cancer Society. The use of the new radioactive substances made possible by nuclear fission, for example, opens up tremen dous and unexpected possibilities in the field of cancer treatment. To explore these possibilities fully is a matter of time, and of money for research. In response to this need for research, for preventive educa tion, and for cancer clinics in hospitals throughout the coun try, the YM-YWCA is sponsor ing this week a campus-wide drive for funds. Opportunities to contribute are being furnish ed by solicitors in the dormi tories, and a cancer booth in the lobby of the "Y." Every student is urged to add his contribution to the fight against America's most costly disease. FEW LOST SHEEP By dawn Sunday she was keep ing company with not one but eight masculine admirers. . . . A weekend impersonator of Bataan - renowned MacArthur was- Art Adams. "I shall re turn," cried Art. "To what, when, and where?" ponder his fraternity brothers, as do all other Greek letter men. The reasons are highly significant, are they not? . . . Chan Hysmith and Dick Adams, after a round of knock-outs, awoke in the same bed on Sunday morning. Week ends make strange bedfellows. Batter-Up Pin-tosser Bill Seaman threw a neat curve Friday. Batting a thousand, Mary Frances King was all set for a homerun, but a shifting in positions showed Fran Shields OCCUTJvinty first. by Saturday. See RAM, page 4
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